Family Collection Brings Record Results in One of Swann’s Highest-Grossing Poster Sales to Date
The roaming photographer, camera slung around her neck or gripped in a hand, walking city streets, sitting in a café…
Featuring historical prints such as those issued by Currier & Ives, and plates by John James Audubon, as well a…
Our May 6, 2021 sale of Old Master Through Modern Prints delivered $1.8 million in sales and saw seven print records…
Exploring the thematic and visual diversity of the photographic medium, this auction covers twentieth-century master…
Edward Gorey is having a moment. Gorey has had many of these over the years—he was the quintessential multifaceted a…
This year Swann Galleries holds a third annual auction dedicated to the art, material culture, and history of the LG…
As collectors and institutions turn their focus to the important contributions of women, Swann is pleased to feature…
In the twenty-first century, when one thinks of contemporary posters and graphic design, the term “branding” may com…
The following collection of scarce, early proofs by Pablo Picasso, as well as a maquette for an original ceramic, wa…
Featuring works by Elaine de Kooning, John Little, John Wesley, and Robert Motherwell, as well as works by members o…
Auction Brings $3.9 Million – Second-Highest Grossing Sale in Department Thirteen-Year History Our spring offering o…
At Auction May 12, 2021 This special offering of deaccessioned duplicates from the rich collection of Letterform Arc…
At Auction May 13, 2021 This auction is being held in tandem with Selections from Letterform Archive, at auction May…
Howardena Pindell, Betye Saar, Vanessa German, Bisa Butler, and Dindga McCannon are assemblage artists that apply fo…
The Delaney brothers became well-known painters in the downtown New York art scene in the 1930s and 40s—while each f…
A two day auction event featuring Selections From Letterform Archive on May 12, and Graphic Design on May 13.
With engravings, woodcuts, etchings, drypoints and more by both well-known and lesser-known esteemed master printmak…
A Little Self(ie) Love Whether you love them or hate them, selfies have become a large part of self-representation i…
Our April 15, 2021 auction of Printed & Manuscript Americana opens with a noteworthy collection of historical pr…
Bibliographers, cataloguers, and scholars rely upon the veracity of a book’s imprint—that is, the publication inform…
With the arrival of baseball’s Opening Day, spring is truly here. Swann does not handle baseball memorabilia in…
At Auction April 22, 2021 Early 20th Century & Harlem Renaissance Modern Art Post-War Art Collection of the Ness…
Our March 25, 2021 sale of Printed & Manuscript African Americana brought interest from collectors and instituti…
A rich offering that features a noteworthy collection of American historical prints, as well as sections of Judaica,…
Any piece of oratory by Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. is a part of the nation’s heritage, but the speech offered…
“Surely you are not going to shut the door in my face!” Since the establishment of the Printed & Man…
The New Yorker debuted in 1925 amid the country’s post-World War I economic boom and on the heels of the passag…
Featuring illuminated manuscripts, including an ornate Book of Hours, Use in Utrecht, and a robust section of import…
Our March 11, 2021 sale of Fine Photographs saw strong results across the auction with humanist works and portraits …
Peter Hujar was a leading figure in the vibrant downtown New York art scene of the 1970s and 80s. He chronicled the …
Photography is a particularly compelling medium for making portraits. The possibility to render oneself or another i…
The house closed out February 2021 with an exceptional sale of Fine Books & Autographs, which saw a 90% sell-thr…
Dorothea Lange‘s iconic photographs from her time documenting for the Farm Security Administration, as well as…
Featuring material relating to Frederick Douglass, Malcolm X, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., Phillis Wheatley, Katheri…
Our winter 2021 offering of Vintage Posters on February 18 saw the highest recent sell-through rate of the house’s l…
At the end of the nineteenth century, Claude Monet, Edgar Degas and Camille Pissarro rediscovered lithogra…
Water vessels played a critical role in shaping the early history of America. That U.S. maritime history is brief re…
John Larson on the cinematic history of Jack Kerouac’s ‘On the Road’ An immediate success upon its…
Fine photographs by Diane Arbus, Julia Margaret Cameron, Robert Frank, Adam Fuss, Dorothea Lange, Robert Mapplethorp…
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