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Reba W. and Dave H. Williams began their collection in the mid-1970s and amassed one of the largest and most prestig…

The April 15, 2025, sale of Old Master Through Modern Prints at Swann will feature an array of standout material inc…

One of the aspects that I love most about working at an auction house is the daily chance of unexpected objects or a…

“I was amazed & astonished at the youthful appearance and the profound and eloquent speech. . . . I knew I…

The Thursday, March 6 auction of 19th & 20th Century Art brought $721k with 81% of lots finding buyers.

Explore groundbreaking examples of postwar abstract and figurative art in this April auction, showcasing significant…

The Whitney Museum of American Art’s recent exhibition, Vida Americana: Mexican Muralists Remake American Art, 1925-…

A distinguished collection of historical treasures, encompassing liberation movement manuscripts, cultural artifacts…

The German and Austro-Hungarian answer to the growing Art Nouveau movement of the 1890s was first dubbed the Jugends…

Swann Galleries offered the single-owner collection of African American art, Abstract Beauty: The Collection of Patr…

An eclectic and engaging dialogue between several European, American, and Latin American artistic traditions and mov…

Punks, goths, mods, beatniks, club kids, and hippies: a shortlist of an endless supply of social factions that make …

Swann’s upcoming auction presents a diverse collection of vintage posters spanning winter sports and travel, A…

The February Fine Photographs auction brings together twentieth-century masters in a curated selection of diverse an…

Jennifer Stewart, art collector, advisor, and friend of Patricia Scipio-Brim, recounts her friendship with Patricia,…

Patricia Scipio-Brim (1947 – 2023) was born and raised in Trinidad and Tobago, the first of six siblings. She immigr…

Swann Galleries proudly presents 80 works honoring the legacy and enterprise of a trailblazing collector, showcasing…

Works in photography, cartography, printmaking, posters, and painting are all represented in Swann’s Artists o…

Swann has been called many things over the years: Swann Galleries; Swann Auction Galleries; Swann’s [sic], sometimes…

2024 was an eventful year for Swann that brought about exciting changes, including the reorganization of our Fine Ar…

They say you can’t judge a book by its cover, but magazines are an entirely different story. A magazine cover is a v…

The November 26, 2024, Contemporary Art auction served as the first with Nigel Freeman as Swann’s head of fine…

This December we are pleased to offer more than 100 lots from the Collection of Neil Robert Berzak. Rich in 20th-cen…

Swann’s Thursday, November 21 auction of Printed & Manuscript Americana brought $608,036, landing squarely…

Swann Galleries is very proud to have been the first auction house to sell the paintings of the great late Barkley H…

The December Illustration Art auction offers an array of iconic works spanning magazine illustrations, book art, ani…

After 10 years with Swann and the reorganization of the house’s fine art offerings, Lisa Crescenzo is now the …

In this December auction we are offering a range of collectible material including regional and decorative world map…

A question I am frequently asked by non-collectors or people new to collecting is, “How do you estimate the va…

The November 26, 2024 auction of Contemporary Art features a wonderfully diverse group – from Pop Art icons to…

This sale strikes a particularly rich vein of western mining material from Alaska, California, Colorado, and Nevada.…

This November auction will include rare autographs by world leaders, authors, Arthurian legends, and musical figures…

America was, in some ways, founded on the idea of land. A restless push West, a desire to “discover,” to claim, and …

This October Modern & Post-War art auction will feature works by Janice Biala, Joe Brainard, William Grosvenor …

Swann autographs specialist Marco Tomaschett visited the Schomburg Center to view their display celebrating James Ba…

African American Art Sets Six Artist Records The Thursday, October 3, 2024, sale of African American Art at Swann br…

Ahead of her first sale as the lead specialist for Old Master Through Modern Prints, Sarah McMillan shares five work…

For an artist with such a prominent place in the American pantheon of poster designers, very little biographical inf…

This October Fine Photographs auction will center photography as it developed and impacted the American West as well…

This fall’s sale promises to tempt with bibliographic rarities from before the invention of movable type through the…