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…
Swann saw a standing-room only auction yesterday for The Art Collection of Maya Angelou, and bidding was competitive the whole way through this short but intensely exciting sale. The sale…
Lot 26: Elizabeth Catlett, On the Subway, offset lithograph, 1986.Estimate $1,500 to $2,500. While Nigel Freeman, Director of our African-American Fine Arts Department is hard at work preparing for the preview and…
Celebrated artist Phoebe Beasley’s collages, paintings and screenprints play with color, pattern and texture while depicting scenes of family, community and everyday life. Three of Beasley’s works are included in The…
On September 15,2015 Swann Galleries offered The Art Collection of Maya Angelou. Author, poet, actress and champion of civil rights, Dr. Maya Angelou was one of the most dynamic voices…
Complete Catalogue Swann Galleries is very proud to be offering for sale the art collection of one America’s great cultural heroes, Dr. Maya Angelou. Dr. Angelou’s homes were filled with…
Looking forward to Swann’s Fall 2015 auction season, especially The Art Collection of Dr. Maya Angelou. Jeanne Moutoussamy-Ashe, Maya Angelou, silver print, 1993. Estimate $1,000 to $1,500. Recently Swann Auction…
Dr. Amalia Amaki, noted art historian and artist, wrote the catalogue introduction for The Richard A. Long Collection of African-American Art. Dr. Amaki, a native Atlantan, received her Ph.D in…