One of many highlights in our March 1 sale of Vintage Posters is a run of posters designed by Erik Nitsche in a series of campaigns for General Dynamics. Nitsche’s…
L’Estampe Originale, a series of nine print albums published by André Marty from 1893-95, represented the zenith of the print trade in the late 19th century. Publishers and dealers used…
Among the broad selection of Vintage Posters coming to auction on February 12 are a run of New York World’s Fair advertisements that were designed to promote the 1939-40 exhibition.…
Swann President and Posters specialist Nicholas D. Lowry writes beautifully about the December 17 auction of Travel Posters from the Julius Paul Collection. Read on for his notes on the sale.…
The image is so iconic, it’s been co-opted countless times, but in Swann Galleries’ upcoming Vintage Posters auction we have the original: a 1939 Keep Calm and Carry On poster. When…
Lot 268: Edward Gorey’s poster for New York City Ballet is a classic image– and not necessarily one that brings to mind Gorey. “I didn’t know GOREY did that…
The three top lots in Swann Galleries’ April 24 auction each set new auction records in a sale marked by incredible results for esoteric images. Lot 1 was Bertold Löffler’s Kunstschau…
A unique item among the scarce posters in the recently restituted Julius Paul Collection that Swann is auctioning on December 18 is Josef Hoffmann’s hand-stenciled poster announcing the opening of the first…
Ernest Haskell’s Truth / Xmas, New York, 1896. Skiing for sport began in the mid-nineteenth century in Northern Europe, although the activity as a means of transport and hunting dates…
