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African American Art

#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 …

Photographs & Photobooks

#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…

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Autographs

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…

Autographs

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…

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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…

Illustration Art

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…

Books & Manuscripts

Records & Results: Early Printed Books

Our March 8 auction of Early Printed, Medical, Scientific & Travel Books coincided with the opening of Rare Book…

Vintage Posters

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…

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Monet: The Master at 16

Before the term “Impressionism” and the overthrow of the established art world, Claude Monet was just a …

Photographs & Photobooks

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…

Photographs & Photobooks

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…

Books & Manuscripts

The Earliest French Erotica

A titillating section in our March 8 auction of Early Printed, Medical, Scientific & Travel Books contains two s…

Vintage Posters

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…

Vintage Posters

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…

Photographs & Photobooks

Cataloguing History’s Darker Moments

In advance of our February 15 auction of Icons & Images: Photographs & Photobooks, we asked Associate Direct…

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Maps & Atlases

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…

African American Art

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…

Photographs & Photobooks

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…

Auctions 101

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…

Maps & Atlases

What Sets A Chart Apart?

We asked specialist Caleb Kiffer to reminisce about some of the most interesting and important charts we’ve ha…

Photographs & Photobooks

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…

Autographs

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…

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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…

Books & Manuscripts

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…

Swann

2017: Year in Review

In our diamond anniversary year, we offered a star-studded roster of 30 auctions, setting nearly 100 records and int…

Illustration Art

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…

Maps & Atlases

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…

Illustration Art

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…

Illustration Art

Daffydils: A Cartoon Festschrift

Festschrifts, usually academic in nature, can also be jovial. An exceptional example, coming to auction in our Decem…

Maps & Atlases

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…

Contemporary Art

Records & Results: Contemporary Art

In our most encyclopedic offering of Contemporary Art to date, the November 16 auction saw active bidding, with work…

Books & Manuscripts

Records & Results: 19th & 20th Century Literature

Our auction of 19th & 20th Century Literature on November 14 offered a veritable library of scarce first edition…

Contemporary Art

Arthur Luiz Piza

Arthur Luiz Piza, a Brazilian mixed media artist trained in Paris, leads an ever-growing section of Latin American a…

19th & 20th Century Literature

Children’s Literature for Adults

Children’s literature is a perennially popular genre. We were all children once, and the antics of Willy Wonka…

Autographs

Records & Results: Autographs

Our auction on November 7 saw fine results for Autographs by important historical figures in a variety of fields, fr…

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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…