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November 4, 2013|Swann Communications|19th & 20th Century Prints & Drawings

Picasso and the Cubists in the 1913 Armory Show

List written by Picasso of European artists to be included in the 1913 Armory Show Though Pablo Picasso (1881-1973) is considered one of the founders of the Cubist movement–with Georges…

November 1, 2013 | 19th & 20th Century Prints & Drawings

From The Kiss to The Scream: Edvard Munch

Edvard Munch (1863-1944) was a Norwegian Symbolist and Expressionist painter/printmaker who, unlike the Impressionists in their focus on the natural world, looked inward to portray basic human conditions—love, jealousy, anxiety, loneliness, illness and…

October 29, 2013 | 19th & 20th Century Prints & Drawings

Paul Cézanne: A Lightning Rod for Criticism at the Armory Show

Amid all of the shock, sensationalism and bewilderment surrounding many of the works in the 1913 Armory Show, much of the harshest criticism was levied at the paintings of Paul Cézanne, though…

October 25, 2013 | 19th & 20th Century Prints & Drawings

Ambroise Vollard: The Art of the Deal

Ambroise Vollard (1866-1939) was a major dealer and publisher in Paris from the 1890s until his death in a car accident in 1939. Initially trained as a lawyer, he is now generally…

October 24, 2013 | 19th & 20th Century Prints & Drawings

Mary Cassatt: Celebrated Female Impressionist

Edgar Degas’s etching and drypoint depicting Mary Cassatt at the Louvre; Lot 29 in Swann’s Armory Show at 100 auction Born in Philadelphia into a well-to-do family, Mary Cassatt (1844-1926)…

October 23, 2013 | 19th & 20th Century Prints & Drawings

James A.M. Whistler in the 1913 Armory Show

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…

October 18, 2013 | 19th & 20th Century Prints & Drawings

Francisco José de Goya and Modern Art

Francisco Goya Y Lucientes, Pintor, aquatint and etching, 1799, from Los Caprichos Francisco José de Goya (1746-1828) was included in the Armory Show as the first artist in the organizers’…

October 16, 2013 | 19th & 20th Century Prints & Drawings

The Armory Show at 100: An Introduction to the Catalogue

This is the first in a series of posts about Swann’s upcoming November 5 auction titled The Armory Show at 100: America’s Introduction to Modern Art. The following essay by…

The Armory Show

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