April 2, 2020Meagan GandolfoPrints & Drawings Etched in History: Printmakers of the Federal Art Project Read more about Etched in History: Printmakers of the Federal Art Project As jobless Americans eventually found work with Franklin D. Roosevelt’s New Deal Works Progress Administration (WPA), George Biddle, an artist and childhood friend of the president, pushed for significant government… Share Facebook Twitter
Read more about African-American Fine Art: April 2020 Highlights March 6, 2020 African-American Fine Art African-American Fine Art: April 2020 Highlights Auction Date TBA Complete Catalogue Earliest Work by David Hammons to Come to Auction From the postwar period, a top lot bound to garner attention is an untitled mixed-paper collage… Share Facebook Twitter
Read more about Artist Profile: Norman Lewis August 30, 2019 African-American Fine Art Artist Profile: Norman Lewis Norman Lewis was an Abstract Expressionist painter associated with The Irascibles who developed as a painter as the New York Modern Art scene grew. Here we discuss Lewis’s rise from the margins to art market center. Share Facebook Twitter
Read more about From Abstract Expressionists to Color Field Painters—African-American Fine Art: Fall 2019 August 26, 2019 African-American Fine Art From Abstract Expressionists to Color Field Painters—African-American Fine Art: Fall 2019 Abstraction features heavily in our October 2019 sale of African-American Fine Art, including first-generation abstract expressionist Norman Lewis, alongside artists Sam Gilliam and Kenneth Victor Young of the Washington Color School. Share Facebook Twitter
Read more about Records & Results: African-American Fine Art April 9, 2019 African-American Fine Art Records & Results: African-American Fine Art Artist Records for Amos, Leigh, Lovelace O’Neal, Pindell & More We saw strong results for African-American Fine Art on Thursday, April 4. Nigel Freeman, the house’s director of African-American Fine Art, noted, “I was happy to see… Share Facebook Twitter
Read more about Upcoming Highlights: African-American Fine Art December 3, 2018 African-American Fine Art Upcoming Highlights: African-American Fine Art At Auction April 4 Complete Catalogue A powerful charcoal drawing by Charles White, Caliban, 1950, is one of the top lots in the sale. Never exhibited publicly, this rediscovered… Share Facebook Twitter
Read more about 2017-18 Year in Review June 25, 2018 Swann 2017-18 Year in Review The 2017-18 auction season at Swann Galleries was replete with record prices and rediscovered paintings, offering works created as early as the fifteenth century and as recently as last year.… Share Facebook Twitter
Read more about Records & Results: African-American Fine Art April 9, 2018 African-American Fine Art Records & Results: African-American Fine Art We held our highest-grossing auction to date on April 5, totaling $4.5M—more than $1M over the high estimate of the sale. The 160 works that made up the highly curated… Share Facebook Twitter
Read more about A Look Inside the Catalogue: African-American Fine Art January 30, 2018 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… Share Facebook Twitter
Read more about Records & Results: African-American Fine Art 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… Share Facebook Twitter
Read more about Specialists in the Field: Nigel Freeman at the Tate August 1, 2017 African-American Fine Art Specialists in the Field: Nigel Freeman at the Tate Nigel Freeman, founder and director of our African-American Fine Art department, is in London this week visiting some familiar images. Two of the works in the Tate Modern’s latest exhibition, Soul of… Share Facebook Twitter
Read more about Records & Results: Fall 2016 December 19, 2016 Swann Records & Results: Fall 2016 Fall 2016 has been a successful season at Swann. In 13 sales, we set more than 50 auction records and offered 4,497 lots, including a rediscovered illustration by Dr. Seuss, a… Share Facebook Twitter
Read more about Records & Results: African-American Fine Art October 12, 2016 African-American Fine Art Records & Results: African-American Fine Art Our much-anticipated fall sale of African-American Fine Art was last Thursday, October 6. Works sold to a packed room, in addition to fierce competition over the phone and online. Eight… 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 Records & Results: African-American Fine Art 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… Share Facebook Twitter
April 9, 2015 African-American Fine Art Records & Results; Ascension: A Century of African-American Art The top lot at our recent auction, Ascension: A Century of African-American Fine Art was Barkley Hendricks’s Steve, an iconic painting that embodies the look and attitude that Hendricks famously captured… Share Facebook Twitter
March 18, 2015 African-American Fine Art Norman Lewis and the Venice Biennale In advance of our April 2 African-American Art auction, we are pleased to have this blog post from Imani Higginson. Norman Lewis’s painting Cathedral (1950) was featured in the exhibition… Share Facebook Twitter
September 16, 2014 African-American Fine Art Must-See Fall Show: Norman Lewis & Lee Krasner at the Jewish Museum Last week, From the Margins: Lee Krasner and Norman Lewis opened at the Jewish Museum. The exhibition combines the works of an unlikely pair: Lee Krasner, a female Jewish artist… Share Facebook Twitter
September 30, 2013 African-American Fine Art A Previously Unknown Norman Lewis Painting The image chosen for the cover of Swann’s upcoming sale Point of Departure: Postwar African-American Fine Art is a circa 1957 Untitled oil on canvas by Norman Lewis. The previously unrecorded painting was acquired… Share Facebook Twitter
October 4, 2011 African-American Fine Art African-American Fine Art Across the Country Across the U.S. this fall, a bevy of museum shows related to the impressive works in Thursday’s African-American Fine Art auction have opened. Hale Woodruff, Rape of Europa, oil on canvas, circa… Share Facebook Twitter
August 18, 2011 African-American Fine Art African-American Fine Art at Boston’s MFA If your summer travels take you to the Boston area, be sure to visit the Museum of Fine Arts (MFA), which has added a handful of works to their collection via… Share Facebook Twitter