Theater Portraits & Set Designs Lead Illustration Art Miriam Troop makes a stellar auction debut at $40k Our Illustration Art sale on June 4 saw a bustling auction room with…
Whether it’s musicians recording a song together, a star-studded cast coming together for a production or visual artists joining forces on a work, collaborative works have long sparked special interest…
Lot 268: Edward Gorey’s poster for New York City Ballet is a classic image– and not necessarily one that brings to mind Gorey. “I didn’t know GOREY did that…
On May 7, Swann will auction The Edward Gorey Collection of Samuel Speigel, and the catalogue for that sale opens with this charming recollection from Speigel himself: Lot 241: The…
On May 7, Swann will auction one of the top private collections of Edward Gorey books, illustrations and ephemera as part of our Art, Press & Illustrated Books sale. Below,…
Our January 23 Illustration sale boasts an abundance of original book-cover art, many examples of which became iconic images of the literary works they graced and, in some cases, defined…
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,…
