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Family Collection Brings Record Results in One of Swann’s Highest-Grossing Poster Sales to Date
#5WomenArtists: Atina Sutton’s List
As part of Women’s History Month, we’re offering a week of #5WomenArtists, inspired by the National Museum of …
#5WomenArtists: Deborah Rogal’s List
We’re jumping into Women’s History Month to offer a week of #5WomenArtists, inspired by the National Museum of…
Records & Results: Autographs
Our auction of Autographs on March 22 offered a selection of letters, photographs and works by some of history’s gre…
Huey Newton’s Portraits & The Founding of the Black Panthers
New findings in our March 29 auction of Printed & Manuscript African-Americana clarify information behind iconic…
Charles Dickens Reveals His Inspiration
A very formal letter by Charles Dickens to Lord Robert Grosvenor was a highlight of our March 22 auction of Autograp…
Records & Results: 19th & 20th Century Prints & Drawings
Our auction of 19th & 20th Century Prints & Drawings on March 13 offered an especially grand selection of or…
A Look Inside the Catalogue: Illustration Art
At Auction June 5 A look inside the highly-anticipated catalogue for our upcoming Illustration Art auction. C…
Records & Results: Early Printed Books
Our March 8 auction of Early Printed, Medical, Scientific & Travel Books coincided with the opening of Rare Book…
Records & Results: Vintage Posters Featuring Highlights from the Gail Chisholm Collection
Vintage Posters Featuring Highlights from the Gail Chisholm Collection offered premier examples of advertising and p…
Monet: The Master at 16
Before the term “Impressionism” and the overthrow of the established art world, Claude Monet was just a …
A Look Inside the Catalogue: The Knowing Eye: Photographs & Photobooks
At Auction April 19 The Knowing Eye: Photographs & Photobooks features a rare vintage print of Alfred Eisenstaed…
Records & Results: Icons & Images: Photographs & Photobooks
We opened the 2018 season with a $1.6M auction of Icons & Images: Photographs & Photobooks on February 15. I…
The Earliest French Erotica
A titillating section in our March 8 auction of Early Printed, Medical, Scientific & Travel Books contains two s…
Erik Nitsche’s Modernist Vision
One of many highlights in our March 1 sale of Vintage Posters is a run of posters designed by Erik Nitsche in a seri…
Gail Chisholm: A Life in Posters
Nearly a quarter of our March 1 auction of Vintage Posters was devoted to highlights from the collection of renowned…
Cataloguing History’s Darker Moments
In advance of our February 15 auction of Icons & Images: Photographs & Photobooks, we asked Associate Direct…
A Look Inside the Catalogue: Maps & Atlases, Natural History & Color Plate Books
At Auction June 7 This auction of Maps & Atlases, Natural History & Color Plate Books encompasses a broad ra…
A Look Inside the Catalogue: Printed & Manuscript Americana
Our April 12 auction of Printed & Manuscript Americana illustrates the multifaceted tapestry of American history…
A Look Inside the Catalogue: African-American Fine Art
Two highlights of this sale on April 5 are significant, vibrant paintings by modernist New York artists. Beauford De…
Photographer Lewis Hine & The Invention of the Photo Story
Daile Kaplan Reflects on Lewis Hine’s Legacy Lewis Wickes Hine was one of the most important social documentar…
Vintage Posters 101
So you’ve fallen in love with a vintage poster. What next? Here are some of the most important things to consi…
What Sets A Chart Apart?
We asked specialist Caleb Kiffer to reminisce about some of the most interesting and important charts we’ve ha…
Bertha Trujillo: Matadora in Photographs
On May 30, 1968, Bertha Trujillo became the first woman awarded a doctorate of matadorship, the highest technical le…
A Look Inside the Catalogue: Printed & Manuscript African Americana
On March 29 we will offer Printed & Manuscript African Americana, an array of material that encompasses a wide r…
A Look Inside the Catalogue: Autographs
Gracing this March 22 sale is a poem completed by Walt Whitman on his deathbed, transcribed by a secretary and signe…
A Look Inside the Catalogue: 19th & 20th Century Prints & Drawings
Here’s an overview of our auction of 19th & 20th Century Prints & Drawings on March 13: Diego Rivera’s…
A Look Inside the Catalogue: Early Printed, Medical, Scientific & Travel Books
This sale on March 8 will feature an extensive selection of early Spanish books on a variety of subjects including a…
The Top Five Fahrenheit 451s
According to our Literature specialist John D. Larson, there are five first editions of Fahrenheit 451 of interest t…
2017: Year in Review
In our diamond anniversary year, we offered a star-studded roster of 30 auctions, setting nearly 100 records and int…
Records & Results: Illustration Art
The grand finale of our 2017 roster was a successful auction of Illustration Art on December 14. Highlights of the s…
Records & Results: Maps & Atlases, Natural History & Color Plate Books
Maps were so plentiful at our December 5 auction of Maps & Atlases, Natural History & Color Plate Books that…
Ingeborg Willy & the Making of Snow White
A scrapbook, presumably kept by an inker at Walt Disney Studios, reveals much about the production of Snow White. Th…
Daffydils: A Cartoon Festschrift
Festschrifts, usually academic in nature, can also be jovial. An exceptional example, coming to auction in our Decem…
Schedel’s Map: The Last View of the Old World
A historic map shows us where we’ve been, not only geographically but also in terms of the extent of our knowl…
Records & Results: Contemporary Art
In our most encyclopedic offering of Contemporary Art to date, the November 16 auction saw active bidding, with work…
Records & Results: 19th & 20th Century Literature
Our auction of 19th & 20th Century Literature on November 14 offered a veritable library of scarce first edition…
Arthur Luiz Piza
Arthur Luiz Piza, a Brazilian mixed media artist trained in Paris, leads an ever-growing section of Latin American a…
Children’s Literature for Adults
Children’s literature is a perennially popular genre. We were all children once, and the antics of Willy Wonka…
Records & Results: Autographs
Our auction on November 7 saw fine results for Autographs by important historical figures in a variety of fields, fr…
Records & Results: Old Master Through Modern Prints
A new auction record for any print by American master Edward Hopper was established at our auction of Old Master Thr…