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A West Point graduate blazes a trail from San Antonio to El Paso. A guard in one of the country’s most notorio…

Artist Records for Amos, Leigh, Lovelace O’Neal, Pindell & Mo…

A Record for The Negro Travelers’ Green Book …

At Auction June 4, 2019 Exhibition Opens May 30 – June 4 The exhibition is free to attend and open to the public. We…

At Auction May 14 Complete Catalogue This sale features significant material by the man behind everyone’s favo…

Auction Record for Mohawk Chief &  Loyalist Joseph Brant at Swann&n…

Howardena Pindell is among the contemporary artists included in our April 4, 2019 sale of African-American Fine Art.…

Our April 4 sale of African-American Fine Art features four market newcomers, artists whose work has never before ap…

Featuring Latin American Art At Auction May 2 Complete Catalogue A selection of Old Master prints includes highlight…

Our sale of Autographs on March 21 features an extraordinary run of material by Diana, Princess of Wales. The assort…

At Auction May 16 Complete Catalogue David Hockney’s Red Celia, a portrait of designer Celia Birtwell, for whi…

Illuminated Manuscripts Lead Early Printed Books at Swann     Coinciding with Rare Book Week in New York C…

Ismar Littmann Family Collection Shines in  Swann Galleries’ Prints&nb…

At Auction April 18 Complete Catalogue   Our diverse April auction bridges classical and contemporary visual id…

At Auction May 23 Complete Catalogue Graphic Design continues to be a favorite among our poster auctions, with work …

At Auction April 16 Complete Catalogue   This sale includes a dramatic Texan diary by William Farrar Smith, com…

A Record for Malick Sidibé in Swann Photo SaleVernacular albums of…

Rare Book Week kicks off March 5 in NYC. We gathered a selection of our favorite events happening throughout the wee…

At Auction March 28 Complete Catalogue A highlight is volume one, issue one of the Mirror of Liberty, July 1838–the …

Our March 5 sale of 19th & 20th Century Prints & Drawings will feature Property from the Ismar Littmann Fami…

Alphonse Mucha & Art Nouveau Lead Vintage Posters at Swann   O…

Our upcoming sale of Photographs: Art & Visual Culture celebrates photographs as objects. Daile Kaplan, the hous…

A Historic Collection Few collectors in Breslau during the early 1900s had a passion for connoisseurship, collecting…

Georges Rouault’s Livres d’Artiste Lead Swann Galleries’ Fine Illustrated Book…

Nigel Freeman, our African-American Fine Art director, stopped by the Wallach Art Gallery at Columbia University to …

Featuring Property from the Ismar Littmann Family Collection of German Expressionism & European Avant-Garde At A…

At the end of the nineteenth century, the craze of poster collecting was at an all-time high. As a result, publisher…

At Auction February 21 Complete Catalogue     This auction features Robert Frank’s Yom Kippur, East River,…

with Swann Galleries’ App Live online bidding is seamless with Swann Galleries’ App, where you can brows…

The Richard Lee Callaway Collection of Alan James Robinson & the Cheloniidae Press   The collection of the …

At Auction February 7 Complete Catalogue     Our winter sale features tantalizing, rare Art Nouveau images…

At Auction January 29 Complete Catalogue   Taking place during Bibliography Week in New York City, this auction…

A year of records, debuts and rediscovered works. As we reflect on 2018, we look back at an excellent year of auctio…

Runaway Currier & Ives Print with Special Ties to Thomas W. Streeter Sets Record at Swann   We closed out o…

Thinking about selling at auction? Allow us to be of assistance. Swann is a third-generation family business and the…

Illustration Art Sale at Swann Sets Six Records Al Hirschfeld’s Marx Brothers Tops Auction at $26k   Our …

Among the many unique and impressive rarities in our December 13 Maps & Atlases, Natural History & Color Pla…

At Auction April 4 Complete Catalogue   A powerful charcoal drawing by Charles White, Caliban, 1950, is one of …

At Auction March 21 Complete Catalogue   This spring auction brings an assortment of hard-to-find items from wo…

“To All Fascists:”   One of the most remarkable pieces in our December 6 Illustration Art auction i…