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Browsing Tag Irving Penn

July 15, 2024

In the 2024 Winter-Spring season, Swann Galleries continued to provide high-quality auctions of unusual and rare material. Several single-owner collections were featured,…

April 23, 2024

Swann's May 16 auction of Fine Photographs is headlines by two iconic female photographers.

January 30, 2024

Dr. James Pearl reflects on the process of amassing his collection of American photography. Coming to auction at Swann Galleries February 15.

March 7, 2023

The February 2023 timed-app exclusive sale of Fine Photographs brought $996,156 with 220 of the 266 lots offered finding buyers, an 83% sell-through rate by lot. I am thrilled to…

January 24, 2023

The Photographs season begins with an exciting online auction featuring an array of nineteenth- and twentieth-century highlights.  The sale is headlined by Irving…

March 15, 2021

Our March 11, 2021 sale of Fine Photographs saw strong results across the auction with humanist works and portraits drawing interest from collectors. “We were pleased to see…

October 22, 2019

Swann's Thursday, October 17 sale of Classic & Contemporary Photographs featured a broad range of photographic material including works by Edward S. Curtis, Irving Penn, Henri…

October 2, 2019

Our October 17 sale of Classic & Contemporary Photographs features an impressive selection of portraiture from the last two centuries. The most significant is Irving Penn's 1960,…

August 29, 2019

Featured photographers include: Walead Beshty, John Divola, Seydou Keïta, Richard Misrach, Vik Muniz, Andres Serrano and Joel Sternfeld. A headliner among the rare photobook…

January 21, 2019

At Auction February 21 Complete Catalogue     This auction features Robert Frank’s Yom Kippur, East River, New York, 1955, printed 1971; Robert Mapplethorpe’s Roy Cohn,…