Our Specialists in the Field summer series is back for 2018! As before we’ll start with our reading list. Here’s what some of us are cracking into in the off-season.…
Our April auction brought in a total of $3.22 million, with three pieces by James A.M. Whistler going for spectacular six figure prices. Todd Weyman, Swann Galleries Vice President and…
The afternoon session of Swann’s April 29 auction of Old Master Through Modern Prints opens with more than 90 exceptional prints by James A.M. Whistler from a private collection, offered in their…
Lot 20 in Swann’s Armory Show at 100 auction is Whistler’s 1889-90 lithograph, The Little Nude Model, Reading. There were four paintings by James A.M. Whistler (1834-1903) in the Armory…
Fall seems the appropriate time to examine James Jacques Tissot’s luminous 1878 etching and drypoint titled Octobre. Tissot (1836-1902) was a successful French society artist who built his career on portraying fashionable women…
This year we celebrate the 100th anniversary of the famed 1913 Armory Show. The seminal show was originally held in the 69th Regiment Armory at Lexington & 25th Street, just across…
Swann’s September 20 auction of 19th & 20th Century Prints & Drawings features several scarce works by James A.M. Whistler, including The Boy (Charlie Hanson), a drypoint from 1875-76 that…
Wednesday’s sale of Old Master Through Modern Prints set several print records and saw strong results throughout every section of the sale, with American, European and Old Master prints achieving benchmark prices.…
More than 120 years ago, 1887 marked the 50th anniversary of the coronation of Queen Victoria. James Whistler, then president of the Royal Society of British Artists, was invited to…
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…
How many print records can we set? Our September 22 auction of 19th & 20th Century Prints & Drawings set three auction records for prints by important artists. Furthering our…
Our October 27th and 28th two-part print sale, which began with Whistler and His Influence on Wednesday, set records. James A. M. Whistler’s Nocturne became the most expensive Whistler print ever…
James A. M. Whistler‘s work in lithography dates from three distinct periods of his career. His two earliest lithographs, from 1855, were made in the U.S. just prior to his…
When James A.M. Whistler moved from Paris to London in May 1859, the city became his adopted home for the rest of his life. The scenery along the Thames was…
