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Modern & Post-War Art

Auction Highlights: Modern & Post-War Art — May 22, 2025

Our May Modern & Post-War Art auction brings together the many subcategories of Modernist art, offering a treme…

American Art

Mexican Muralists & Their Impact on the WPA

The Whitney Museum of American Art’s recent exhibition, Vida Americana: Mexican Muralists Remake American Art, 1925-…

Modern & Post-War Art

Auction Highlights: The Artists of the WPA — January 30, 2025

Works in photography, cartography, printmaking, posters, and painting are all represented in Swann’s Artists o…

Modern & Post-War Art

Auction Highlights: Modern & Post-War Art — November 12, 2024

This October Modern & Post-War art auction will feature works by Janice Biala, Joe Brainard, William Grosvenor …

Modern & Post-War Art

Surrealist Centennial: 100 Years of the Surrealist Manifesto

André Breton’s Surrealist Manifesto was first published in 1924. Breton, a writer and member of an earlier art movem…

Modern & Post-War Art

Essential Modern & Post-War Art Terms & Movements — Part II

Harold Porcher’s Illustrated Glossary of Modern & Post-War Movements II The post-war era of art, as an auc…

Modern & Post-War Art

Auction Highlights: Modern & Post-War Art — May 2, 2024

Highlights from the upcoming spring Modern & Post-War Art Sale.

Modern & Post-War Art

Auction Highlights: The Artists of the WPA — Timed Sale Closing January 25, 2024

Highlights from the December 14, 2023 auction of Illustration Art.

Modern & Post-War Art

Essential Modern & Post-War Art Terms & Movements — Part I

Harold Porcher’s Illustrated Glossary of Modern & Post-War Movements In early 2020 I joined Swann and crea…

Modern & Post-War Art

Auction Highlights: Modern & Post-War Art — November 30, 2023

The fall Modern & Post-War Art auction will include work from the early twentieth century through post-World War…

American Art

Artist Profile: Edith Schloss

Our May 25, 2023 Modern & Post-War Art auction features a wide array: from the Post-Impressionist era, a work on…