June 24, 2020Sarah McMillanContemporary Art Abstract Art: 1940s Through Now Read more about Abstract Art: 1940s Through Now Abstract forms have in many ways always been part of artistic composition, and the early twentieth century saw a push towards works rendered solely through colors and forms following centuries of a general yearning… Share Facebook Twitter
Read more about Cultural Cross-Currents: The Indian Space Painters April 8, 2020 Modern & Post-War Art Cultural Cross-Currents: The Indian Space Painters The Indian Space Painters may be the modern artists most closely associated with Native American art. In Haida and Tlingit art, these American modernists found anthropomorphic interlocking subject matter that lent itself to the Surrealist abstraction they were already emulating in their own paintings. Share Facebook Twitter
Read more about A Look Inside the Catalogue: Contemporary Art April 12, 2018 Contemporary Art A Look Inside the Catalogue: Contemporary Art At Auction May 22 Our spring auction of Contemporary Art features a wide-ranging selection of sculpture, paintings and multiples from the last 75 years, with works by Banksy, Barbara Kruger, Yayoi… Share Facebook Twitter
Read more about Works from Will Barnet’s Estate at Auction November 1, 2017 Prints & Drawings Works from Will Barnet’s Estate at Auction American artist Will Barnet is known for his intimate, foreshortened views of women with cats, but his oeuvre, spanning nearly a century, reveals a diverse and multifaceted artist who transcended… Share Facebook Twitter
Read more about Swann Summer Reading List 2017 July 13, 2017 Swann Swann Summer Reading List 2017 We spoke to specialists at Swann about their extracurricular activities. Unsurprisingly, their interests are generally aligned with their specialty! We asked them to talk about what they’re reading, and compiled… Share Facebook Twitter
Read more about East Hampton Artists May 10, 2017 Contemporary Art East Hampton Artists The community of East Hampton has long been known as an avant-garde artist enclave. Our May 11 auction of Contemporary Art features a century’s worth of output by artists who… Share Facebook Twitter
Read more about Thomas Hart Benton Links Pollock and Rubens May 3, 2017 Autographs Thomas Hart Benton Links Pollock and Rubens In 1926, Thomas Hart Benton was a teacher at the Art Students League of New York. Disappointed by the lack of a painting manual, he set about writing his own.… Share Facebook Twitter
Read more about 2015-16: A Year of Records August 16, 2016 Swann 2015-16: A Year of Records Last year Swann Galleries saw 95 records and first appearances across 31 sales with some of our departments even breaking their own records. Treasures ranging from previously unknown works to… Share Facebook Twitter
Read more about The Irascibles and Abstract Expressionism November 11, 2015 Contemporary Art The Irascibles and Abstract Expressionism While the practice of artists naming or voicing the movements in which they were participants began in the late 19th and early 20th century, there was often hesitation, or even… Share Facebook Twitter
October 28, 2011 19th & 20th Century Prints & Drawings Records for Pollock, Whistler & Rembrandt in This Week’s Sale Wednesday’s Old Master Through Modern Prints sale, paired with yesterday’s Atelier 17, Abstract Expressionism & The New York School sale, brought nearly $3,000,000, and set print records for several major… Share Facebook Twitter
October 25, 2011 Contemporary Art Atelier 17 and Abstract Expressionism: Notes from the Catalogue Jackson Pollock, Untitled, screenprint on Strathmore paper, 1951 (printed 1964). The 1940s marked the moment of Stanley W. Hayter’s greatest influence–not only among printmakers–in the emergence of Abstract Expressionism… Share Facebook Twitter
October 17, 2011 Contemporary Art Atelier 17 in New York: Notes from the Catalogue Jackson Pollock, Untitled, drypoint and engraving, circa 1944-45. The tradition of the artist-printmaker was not a fully developed one in the late 19th- and early 20th-century United States. Few American artists… Share Facebook Twitter