Browsing Tag

Hughie Lee-Smith

January 30, 2018|Lauren Kristin|African-American Fine Art

A Look Inside the Catalogue: African-American Fine Art

Two highlights of this sale on April 5 are significant, vibrant paintings by modernist New York artists. Beauford Delaney’s large Untitled (Village Street Scene), 1948, depicts a Greenwich Village corner in…

October 11, 2017 | African-American Fine Art

Records & Results: African-American Fine Art

Four works exceeded $100,000 at our sale of African-American Fine Art on Thursday, October 5. A wealth of unique paintings, drawings and monotypes distinguished the sale of approximately 150 lots, nearly…

April 11, 2017 | African-American Fine Art

Records & Results: African-American Fine Art

The crowd was standing-room only at our April 6 auction of African-American Fine Art. The sale totaled more than $2.5M, with five of the top lots breaking previous auction records, all…

January 19, 2016 | African-American Fine Art

Records & Results: African-American Fine Art

The December 15 sale of African-American Fine Art ended the 2015 season here at Swann with record-smashing success. Lot 49: Norman Lewis, Untitled, oil on canvas, circa 1958. Sold December…

October 18, 2012 | African-American Fine Art

The Chicago Renaissance: Grounded in Life

Figurative artists Eldzier Cortor, Hughie Lee-Smith and Charles White stayed true to their roots in social realism as their work evolved in the post-war decades. Unlike contemporaries Charles Alston, Norman…

January 29, 2010 | Printed & Manuscript African Americana

James Amos Porter Archive Comes to Auction

Among the highlights of our 15th annual auction of Printed & Manuscript African Americana is an incredible archive comprising James Amos Porter’s African-American Art History Reference materials. The lot contains…

Hughie Lee-Smith

A Look Inside the Catalogue: African-American Fine Art

Records & Results: African-American Fine Art

Records & Results: African-American Fine Art

Records & Results: African-American Fine Art

The Chicago Renaissance: Grounded in Life

James Amos Porter Archive Comes to Auction

Thank you for subscribing