April 8, 2020Harold PorcherModern & Post-War Art Cultural Cross-Currents: The Indian Space Painters Read more about Cultural Cross-Currents: The Indian Space Painters The Indian Space Painters may be the modern artists most closely associated with Native American art. In Haida and Tlingit art, these American modernists found anthropomorphic interlocking subject matter that lent itself to the Surrealist abstraction they were already emulating in their own paintings. Share Facebook Twitter
Read more about A Look Inside the Catalogue: American Art April 1, 2018 American Art A Look Inside the Catalogue: American Art At Auction June 14 This highly curated sale of American Art presents original works in a variety of media, including drawings, watercolors and sculpture. Offerings range from nineteenth-century paintings… Share Facebook Twitter
Read more about 2017: Year in Review December 28, 2017 Swann 2017: Year in Review In our diamond anniversary year, we offered a star-studded roster of 30 auctions, setting nearly 100 records and introducing countless items to the market, including a previously unknown photograph of Harriet… Share Facebook Twitter
Read more about Records & Results: Old Master Through Modern Prints November 4, 2017 Prints & Drawings Records & Results: Old Master Through Modern Prints A new auction record for any print by American master Edward Hopper was established at our auction of Old Master Through Modern Prints on November 2. The extremely rare etching The… Share Facebook Twitter
Read more about Works from Will Barnet’s Estate at Auction November 1, 2017 Prints & Drawings Works from Will Barnet’s Estate at Auction American artist Will Barnet is known for his intimate, foreshortened views of women with cats, but his oeuvre, spanning nearly a century, reveals a diverse and multifaceted artist who transcended… Share Facebook Twitter
Read more about A Louise Bourgeois Rediscovery November 2, 2016 Contemporary Art A Louise Bourgeois Rediscovery Lot 33: Louise Bourgeois, Escalier de 63, lithograph, 1939. Estimate $3,000 to $5,000. It’s not often that an unrecorded print turns out to be the real thing, but in Swann… Share Facebook Twitter
Read more about Sense of Play: Will Barnet’s Nude with Cats May 21, 2014 American Art Sense of Play: Will Barnet’s Nude with Cats Barnet’s watercolor and oil, Play, differs from the later print. Among the highlights of our June 12 auction of American Art—and the image that graces the catalogue cover—is Will… Share Facebook Twitter