Family Collection Brings Record Results in One of Swann’s Highest-Grossing Poster Sales to Date
Edvard Munch (1863-1944) was a Norwegian Symbolist and Expressionist painter/printmaker who, unlike the Impress…
Amid all of the shock, sensationalism and bewilderment surrounding many of the works in the 1913 Armory Show, m…
Born in Philadelphia into a well-to-do family, Mary Cassatt (1844-1926) spent most of her adult life in Europe and, …
There were four paintings by James A.M. Whistler (1834-1903) in the Armory Show; all of which were figural works exh…
Francisco José de Goya (1746-1828) was included in the Armory Show as the first artist in the organizers’ time…
This is the first in a series of posts about Swann’s upcoming November 5 auction titled The Armory Show at 100…
The image chosen for the cover of Swann’s upcoming sale Point of Departure: Postwar African-American Fine Art …
Murder and mayhem have long fascinated photographers and film aficionados, and are also inextricably linked with col…
Swann will offer a László Moholy-Nagy gouache and watercolor Composition in our 19th & 20th Century Prints &…
We will be offering an early Mexican manuscript cookbook in our October 10, 2013 Printed & Manuscript Americana …
After graduating from Pratt in 1901, Peterson continued her education at the Art Students League of New York, then i…
Among the highlights of Swann’s June 6 auction of Maps & Atlases, Natural History & Historical Prints,…
Thursday, May 9th, our sale of Art, Press & Illustrated Books will feature the inventory of the late Irving Oakl…
Picasso produced more than 20,000 artworks in a wide variety of media over the course of his long, steady careerR…
“We hold these truths to be self evident, that all men are created equal” declares the extraordinary document brough…
Swann Galleries’ February 26, 2013 auction of Fine Photographs features several early photographic albums fill…
This year we celebrate the 100th anniversary of the famed 1913 Armory Show. The seminal show was originally held in …
The holiday season seems to have surprised everyone this year with its early arrival, but there is still time to get…
Figurative artists Eldzier Cortor, Hughie Lee-Smith and Charles White stayed true to their roots in social realism a…
Yesterday Swann sold a complete set of Edward S. Curtis’s The North American Indian for $1,440,000–the h…
A recent auction of Modernist Posters features several examples of modernist typography from major innovators of the…
Known for his attention and passion for the technical aspects of print making, Ansel Adams became a consultant for E…
Two images from 1924 for Chicago Rapid Transit were intended to draw visitors to the city’s attractions: Ervin…
Decadent! Erotic! Phantasmagoric! Fin-de-siècle grotesqueries! Gents and ladies disporting themselves, occasionally …
Cinema has been greatly influenced by his work—consider the films of Alfred Hitchcock from the 1940s and 1950s. Even…
The informal co-operative printmaking workshop that English painter and draftsman Stanley William Hayter opened…
Our September 2011 auction of 19th & 20th Century Prints & Drawings set three auction records for prints by …
Robert Scott Duncanson was the first African-American landscape painter to achieve international recognition. T…
Three books by modern artist book master Vincent FitzGerald & Company represent more contemporary arti…
The 1931 Golden Cockerel Press edition of the Four Gospels set the text of the King James Gospels into a masterly ex…
Romare Bearden is undoubtedly one of America’s greatest artists. Today, his collages are viewed as some of the most …
Finely packaged and replete with surprises, Andy Warhol’s Index (Book), included in Thursday’s Important Photographs…
Irving Penn is associated with fine photographs of fashionable women. An innovative artist and master technician, Pe…
The majority of photographer Claude Cahun’s imagery is associated with the feminist Surrealist movement. Her artwork…
This Thursday’s American Art sale includes several items from the collection of Lloyd Goodrich, one of the mos…
Our October 27 & 28, 2010 two-part print sale, which began with Whistler and His Influence on Wednesday, set rec…
James A. M. Whistler’s work in lithography dates from three distinct periods of his career. His two earliest l…
When James A.M. Whistler moved from Paris to London in May 1859, the city became his adopted home for the rest of hi…
The Fine Photographs & Select Photobooks auction yesterday, October 19, 2010, saw much interest in a large selec…
As a boy, Robert A. Cumins, now a prominent photojournalist, was fascinated with President John F. Kennedy’s a…
