Our December 8 Maps & Atlases, Natural History & Color Plate Books auction marked the first million-dollar sale for our flourishing Maps & Atlases department, lead by Specialist Alex Clausen.…
The first of its kind at Swann to break $1 Million, the American Art auction on Thursday was our highest-grossing sale in this category ever, with a sale total of…
The first sale in Swann’s very busy May 2013 schedule of auctions was Old Master Through Modern Prints on the first day of the month. George Bellows’s 1917 lithograph A Stag at Sharkey’s brought…
Swann kicked off its fall season in grand style with the first installment of The Eric Caren Collection: How History Unfolds on Paper. This sale–just a portion of Caren’s vast and…
Jared French’s Siren brought $138,000; the third highest auction price ever for a Jared French painting. The top lot in yesterday’s auction of American Art and Contemporary Art was Jared French’s…
Yesterday’s Printed & Manuscript Americana auction sold 90% of its offerings. Selling above their pre-sale estimates were lots pertaining to the American Revolution, American Indians, the Civil War, Latin America,…
Edward Gorey’s career was fittingly designed for a posthumous resurgence. The writer, illustrator, costume and set designer who passed away 10 years ago had an attraction to the dark, mysterious,…
