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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…

Autographs

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…

Contemporary Art

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…

Autographs

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…

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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…

Books & Manuscripts

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…

Photographs & Photobooks

Records & Results: Images & Objects: Photographs & Photobooks

On Thursday, April 20, our sale ofImages & Objects: Photographs & Photobooks set multiple records for early …

Photographs & Photobooks

William Bradford & The Arctic Regions

The following are notes from the catalogue for our April 20 sale of Images & Objects: Photographs & Photoboo…

Photographs & Photobooks

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…

African American Art

Los Angeles Assemblage Artists

From the catalogue of our April 6 sale of African-American Fine Art.     Assemblage emerged as a dynamic n…