Family Collection Brings Record Results in One of Swann’s Highest-Grossing Poster Sales to Date
Our November 7 auction of Autographs is especially noteworthy for a collection of musical autographs from the estate…
American artist Will Barnet is known for his intimate, foreshortened views of women with cats, but his oeuvre, spann…
Our annual auctions of Rare & Important Travel Posters are destinations in and of themselves. On October 26, we …
The development of manned flight from hot air balloon to heavier-than-air machines was recorded and disseminated to …
On October 19 our sale of Art & Storytelling: Photographs & Photobooks combined works spanning the lifetime …
Our October 17 auction of Early Printed, Medical, Scientific & Travel Books garnered eager interest from biblio…
A transportive highlight in our October 17 auction of Early Printed, Medical, Scientific & Travel Books is the r…
Magnum Photos, founded as a cooperative agency in 1947, is perhaps the most well-known photographic collective in th…
Four works exceeded $100,000 at our sale of African-American Fine Art on Thursday, October 5. A wealth of unique pai…
This post was written by our Vice President and Director of Photographs & Photobooks, Daile Kaplan. Photo…
Hoards of history-lovers came out to attend the preview for our auction of Printed & Manuscript Americana on Sep…
We opened our fall season with a marathon sale of 19th & 20th Century Prints & Drawings, breaking multiple r…
The highlight of our October 5 auction of African-American Fine Art is a series of unique works by Charles White tha…
Alma Thomas is renowned for her brightly colored abstract works that seem to dance across canvas and paper, but how …
On a trip to her homeland, a young Syrian-American woman named Mary Arbeely kept a diary recording her attempts to c…
The book arrived in Honolulu by ship from San Francisco on New Year’s Day, 1863, and soon caused a stir throug…
As Hurricane Harvey roared through Houston last month, an unlikely victim was left behind: the monumental 1953 mural…
The top lot in our September 19 auction of 19th & 20th Century Prints & Drawings is a masterful lithograph b…
Some people made such an impact on history that we see them in multiple sales each season, across widely disparate g…
At Auction December 13 Complete Catalogue Maps An example of Abraham Ortelius’s map of Iceland will be includ…
The following was written by Vice President and Director of Photographs & Photobooks, Daile Kaplan: I lov…
Our Photographs & Photobooks department has put together a cheat sheet for identifying some of the more common t…
More than 600 colorful advertisements and announcements crossed the block at our sale of Vintage Posters on Wednesda…
Nigel Freeman, founder and director of our African-American Fine Art department, is in London this week visiting som…
An unusual lot in our upcoming auction of Vintage Posters features a colorful individual: Captain Costentenus, a Gre…
Shrewd perusers of our sales may notice a familiar eave lurking in the catalogue for our upcoming auction of Vintage…
Our August 2 auction of Vintage Posters features the largest — and best — selection of war posters we ha…
With the recent NPR coverage questioning whether an anonymous photograph actually depicts Amelia Earhart on a wharf …
We spoke to specialists at Swann about their extracurricular activities. Unsurprisingly, their interests are general…
Our August 2 auction of Vintage Posters will feature an exceptionally wide array of World War I imagery, honoring th…
Specialists at Swann keep up with the cultural heartbeat by frequenting museum exhibitions. Over the summer, we̵…
Mr. and Mrs. Henry Lewis Stimson lived in an estate in Huntington, Long Island. In his memoir, he wrote of her, R…
We closed our Spring 2017 season with a climactic sale of American Art on Thursday, June 15. The annual auction offe…
The spring 2017 season at Swann Galleries marked the 75th anniversary of our first auction. On March 27, 1942, Benja…
Our June 13 auction of Art, Press & Illustrated Books offered a spectrum of books that doubled as objets d’art, …
Our June 7 auction of Maps & Atlases, Natural History & Color Plate Books saw strong results with multiple a…
On a visit to his Prout’s Neck studio, Winslow Homer’s friend and fellow artist John W. Beatty picked up…
Visionary Yoko Ono created “event scores” as a way to encourage people to find art and beauty in their q…
A recently rediscovered watercolor by John Marin will be making its auction debut in our June 15 sale of American Ar…
Nahui Olin, the pseudonym of Carmen Mondragón, was a Mexican Surrealist active in the 1920s and ’30s. She hail…
