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Records & Results: Old Master Through Modern Prints
On Tuesday, May 2, we offered Old Master Through Modern Prints, with highlights from as long ago as 1495 and as rece…
Thomas Hart Benton Links Pollock and Rubens
In 1926, Thomas Hart Benton was a teacher at the Art Students League of New York. Disappointed by the lack of a pain…
Notes from the Catalogue: Robert Motherwell’s Early Surrealist Period
Notes from the catalogue of our May 11 auction of Contemporary Art. Though Motherwell is known for his integr…
Dearest Marlene: Letters & Photos from the Collection of Marlene Dietrich
Swann is honored to commemorate the legacy of Marlene Dietrich by offering for the first time select items that have…
Masters of Early Engraving
Our May 2 auction of Old Master Through Modern Prints offers a rare opportunity to see works by some of the earliest…
Records & Results: Printed & Manuscript Americana
On Thursday, April 27, our tenth consecutive auction of Printed & Manuscript Americana exceeded $700,000. Much o…
What is a Cosway-Style Binding?
It’s hard not to judge a book by its cover when it is encased in a fine Cosway-style binding. Two of these sum…
The Cherokee Messenger
The complete set of The Cherokee Messenger, Oklahoma’s earliest periodical, will be coming to auction in our P…
Records & Results: Images & Objects: Photographs & Photobooks
On Thursday, April 20, our sale ofImages & Objects: Photographs & Photobooks set multiple records for early …
William Bradford & The Arctic Regions
The following are notes from the catalogue for our April 20 sale of Images & Objects: Photographs & Photoboo…
Modern Daguerreotypes & More
While we live in a digital age, faced with a tsunami of photographs on all manner of devices, many modern artists ha…
Los Angeles Assemblage Artists
From the catalogue of our April 6 sale of African-American Fine Art. Assemblage emerged as a dynamic n…