November 18, 2019Swann NewsContemporary Art Exhibition Guide: Museums Showing 9th Street Women… & Beyond Read more about Exhibition Guide: Museums Showing 9th Street Women… & Beyond Your exhibition guide to shows featuring the women of the Abstract Expressionist movement and beyond. Share Facebook Twitter
Read more about Collecting the Papers of Women Artists, Critics, and Dealers: A Conversation With the Archives of American Art November 1, 2019 Contemporary Art Collecting the Papers of Women Artists, Critics, and Dealers: A Conversation With the Archives of American Art Join us on November 19 for the third in a series of events highlighting The Archives of American Art. Share Facebook Twitter
Read more about Fall 2019: Contemporary Art October 16, 2019 Contemporary Art Fall 2019: Contemporary Art Anchoring this auction is a special selection of works by women of the New York Abstract Expressionist school, notably Helen Frankenthaler, Joan Mitchell and Lee Krasner, in a timely celebration of the era and their overlooked contributions to the first specifically American movement to achieve international influence. Share Facebook Twitter
Read more about Records & Results: Contemporary Art June 3, 2019 Contemporary Art Records & Results: Contemporary Art Print Record for Franz Kline in Swann Contemporary Our May 16 sale of Contemporary Art brought a record price for a Franz Kline print and saw an 81% sell-through… Share Facebook Twitter
Read more about A Look at Roy Lichtenstein’s Early Works May 10, 2019 Contemporary Art A Look at Roy Lichtenstein’s Early Works Roy Lichtenstein is known for his commercial art-inspired works that provided parody through Pop Art and elevated the art of cartooning. Though all of his work maintains the semi-fantastical air… Share Facebook Twitter
Read more about Upcoming Highlights: Contemporary Art March 12, 2019 Contemporary Art Upcoming Highlights: Contemporary Art At Auction May 16 Complete Catalogue David Hockney’s Red Celia, a portrait of designer Celia Birtwell, for which Hockney looked to Picasso and Matisse for inspiration, is among the highlights,… Share Facebook Twitter
Read more about Louise Bourgeois: An Artist’s Portfolio November 2, 2018 Contemporary Art Louise Bourgeois: An Artist’s Portfolio He Disappeared Into Complete Silence A highlight in our November 15 Contemporary Art sale is one of 19 known complete copies of Louise Bourgeois’ He Disappeared Into Complete Silence, 1947.… Share Facebook Twitter
Read more about A Look Inside the Catalogue: Contemporary Art October 18, 2018 Contemporary Art A Look Inside the Catalogue: Contemporary Art At Auction November 15 Complete Catalogue Original Works This sale is notable for its strong selection of original works on paper, including an abstract gouache by Sonia Delaunay, as… Share Facebook Twitter
Read more about Specialists in the Field: Rockaway! 2018 July 18, 2018 Contemporary Art Specialists in the Field: Rockaway! 2018 Lauren Kristin at Narcissus Garden by Yayoi Kusama Communications Digital Content Coordinator Lauren Kristin shares their most recent venture to Rockaway! 2018. Rockaway! is an ongoing public… Share Facebook Twitter
Read more about Records & Results: Contemporary Art May 24, 2018 Contemporary Art Records & Results: Contemporary Art Abstract Attractions We offered nearly 400 works by some of the twentieth century’s greatest innovators in our May 22 auction of Contemporary Art. Abstract works ruled the day, with… Share Facebook Twitter
Read more about Contemporary in 3D May 16, 2018 Contemporary Art Contemporary in 3D Our May 22 auction of Contemporary Art features a selection of recent sculpture and multiples by some of the world’s most famous living artists. Here are a few of our favorites.… Share Facebook Twitter
Read more about Specialist Selections from Contemporary Art May 8, 2018 Contemporary Art Specialist Selections from Contemporary Art We asked the Contemporary Art department to pick their favorite work from their May 22 auction. For people who see dozens–if not hundreds–of works of art each day, it takes… Share Facebook Twitter
Read more about A Look Inside the Catalogue: Contemporary Art April 12, 2018 Contemporary Art A Look Inside the Catalogue: Contemporary Art At Auction May 22 Our spring auction of Contemporary Art features a wide-ranging selection of sculpture, paintings and multiples from the last 75 years, with works by Banksy, Barbara Kruger, Yayoi… Share Facebook Twitter
Read more about Records & Results: Contemporary Art November 18, 2017 Contemporary Art Records & Results: Contemporary Art In our most encyclopedic offering of Contemporary Art to date, the November 16 auction saw active bidding, with works by Josef Albers, Jean Arp and Christo exceeding their estimates and… Share Facebook Twitter
Read more about Arthur Luiz Piza November 14, 2017 Contemporary Art Arthur Luiz Piza Arthur Luiz Piza, a Brazilian mixed media artist trained in Paris, leads an ever-growing section of Latin American art in our biannual auctions of Contemporary Art. An especially unusual piece… Share Facebook Twitter
Read more about Specialists in the Field: The New Museum June 30, 2017 Contemporary Art Specialists in the Field: The New Museum Specialists at Swann keep up with the cultural heartbeat by frequenting museum exhibitions. Over the summer, we’ll be sharing some of their experiences, beginning with Diana Flatto and Jessica Feldman… Share Facebook Twitter
Read more about East Hampton Artists May 10, 2017 Contemporary Art East Hampton Artists The community of East Hampton has long been known as an avant-garde artist enclave. Our May 11 auction of Contemporary Art features a century’s worth of output by artists who… Share Facebook Twitter
Read more about Postwar Innovations in Printmaking May 5, 2017 Contemporary Art Postwar Innovations in Printmaking These examples come from our May 11 auction of Contemporary Art. From the initial proliferation of engraving in the fifteenth century to the explosion of lithography in the late 1800s,… Share Facebook Twitter
Read more about Notes from the Catalogue: Robert Motherwell’s Early Surrealist Period May 2, 2017 Contemporary Art Notes from the Catalogue: Robert Motherwell’s Early Surrealist Period Notes from the catalogue of our May 11 auction of Contemporary Art. Though Motherwell is known for his integral role in the New York school of Abstract Expressionism, the… Share Facebook Twitter
Read more about Records & Results: Contemporary Art November 17, 2016 Contemporary Art Records & Results: Contemporary Art Works from the post-war period to today found new homes at our biannual auction of Contemporary Art on November 15. The sale reflected the great diversity of materials and philosophies espoused in… Share Facebook Twitter
Read more about A Louise Bourgeois Rediscovery November 2, 2016 Contemporary Art A Louise Bourgeois Rediscovery Lot 33: Louise Bourgeois, Escalier de 63, lithograph, 1939. Estimate $3,000 to $5,000. It’s not often that an unrecorded print turns out to be the real thing, but in Swann… Share Facebook Twitter
Read more about Notes From the Catalogue: Roy Lichtenstein’s “Sunrise” May 11, 2016 Contemporary Art Notes From the Catalogue: Roy Lichtenstein’s “Sunrise” Pop art master Roy Lichtenstein is known for creating works in a number of mediums, including paintings, prints and sculpture. Our upcoming auction of Contemporary Art features multiple works by Lichtenstein,… Share Facebook Twitter
Read more about Contemporary Art at Swann: Heavy Hitters and Rising Stars February 26, 2016 Contemporary Art Contemporary Art at Swann: Heavy Hitters and Rising Stars When you think about Contemporary Art, a few big names and images immediately come to mind: the iconic pop art of Andy Warhol and Roy Lichtenstein, the graffiti art of… Share Facebook Twitter
Read more about The Irascibles and Abstract Expressionism November 11, 2015 Contemporary Art The Irascibles and Abstract Expressionism While the practice of artists naming or voicing the movements in which they were participants began in the late 19th and early 20th century, there was often hesitation, or even… Share Facebook Twitter
February 20, 2015 Contemporary Art Keith Haring: Pop Shop Keith Haring in his Pop Shop. More on the history of this bygone space can be found at pop-shop.com. In the 1980s, street and mural artist Keith Haring became well… Share Facebook Twitter
November 12, 2014 Contemporary Art Fluxus: The Art of the Everyday Examples of Fluxus artwork appear in many of our auctions, and demand seems to be on the rise for works by the group, which was active from the early 1960s through… Share Facebook Twitter
November 4, 2014 Contemporary Art Wearable Art: Basquiat Tags a Jacket A highlight in our upcoming auction of Contemporary Art is a leather jacket tagged by various 1980s graffiti artists, including Jean-Michel Basquiat (1960-1988). These artists frequented the popular four-floor after-hours… Share Facebook Twitter
Read more about Records & Results: Contemporary Art May 15, 2014 Contemporary Art Records & Results: Contemporary Art Tuesday’s auction of Contemporary Art at Swann saw strong results and an usually high percentage of online bidders–in fact, 25 percent of successful bidders were bidding live online. Lot… Share Facebook Twitter
November 11, 2013 Contemporary Art Sol LeWitt Before Minimalism Lot 65: Sol LeWitt’s Figures in a Landscape, oil on canvas, 1960. Sol LeWitt (1928-2007) was a pioneering figure in the establishment of Minimalism and Conceptualism during the postwar era.… Share Facebook Twitter
November 8, 2013 Contemporary Art GA-43 Robot: Andy Warhol at a Child’s Eye Level Among the Andy Warhol prints in Swann’s upcoming auction of Contemporary Art is GA-43 Robot, a unique color screenprint on canvas from 1983. Warhol melded printmaking and painting, blurring the line… Share Facebook Twitter
June 13, 2012 Contemporary Art For Ellsworth Kelly, Nature Wins June 5th marked the opening of Ellsworth Kelly Plant Drawings at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, a summer-long show of approximately 80 drawings. With some work from as early as 1948, the… Share Facebook Twitter
October 25, 2011 Contemporary Art Atelier 17 and Abstract Expressionism: Notes from the Catalogue Jackson Pollock, Untitled, screenprint on Strathmore paper, 1951 (printed 1964). The 1940s marked the moment of Stanley W. Hayter’s greatest influence–not only among printmakers–in the emergence of Abstract Expressionism… Share Facebook Twitter
October 17, 2011 Contemporary Art Atelier 17 in New York: Notes from the Catalogue Jackson Pollock, Untitled, drypoint and engraving, circa 1944-45. The tradition of the artist-printmaker was not a fully developed one in the late 19th- and early 20th-century United States. Few American artists… Share Facebook Twitter
June 10, 2011 American Art Jared French Tops American Art / Contemporary Art Jared French’s Siren brought $138,000; the third highest auction price ever for a Jared French painting. The top lot in yesterday’s auction of American Art and Contemporary Art was Jared French’s… Share Facebook Twitter
June 6, 2011 Contemporary Art Keith Haring’s Pop Prints at Swann The 1980s street and mural artist Keith Haring’s brightly colored graphic artwork has become synonymous with the late 20th century interplay of pop art and social activism. While his shapes… Share Facebook Twitter