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Ancient Then & Ancient Now: Piranesi’s Views of Rome
Giovanni Battista Piranesi spent eight years researching the ancient ruins of Rome before completing his magnum opus…
Records & Results: Fine Illustrated Books & Graphics
Our auction of Fine Illustrated Books & Graphics on April 26 featured highlights by artists of the twentieth cen…
How Car Posters Drove Graphic Design
In the dawn of the motor car, most automobile purveyors relied on a “keeping up with the Joneses” mental…
Have You Met Breuer? An Architectural Archive
An archive of illuminating material from the office of the great modernist architect and designer Marcel Breuer lead…
Records & Results: The Knowing Eye: Photographs & Photobooks
Our April 19 auction The Knowing Eye: Photographs & Photobooks was led by the only known extant print of River R…
Records & Results: Printed & Manuscript Americana
Our auction of Printed & Manuscript Americana on April 12 was the department’s highest-grossing sale in four yea…
A Walker Evans Print, The Only One of Its Kind
The cover lot of our April 19 auction, The Knowing Eye: Photographs & Photobooks is the only known extant print …
Records & Results: African-American Fine Art
We held our highest-grossing auction to date on April 5, totaling $4.5M—more than $1M over the high estimate of the …
Dream vs. Reality in the Civil War
Personal correspondence and manuscript material are always a highlight in our auctions of Printed & Manuscript A…
Records & Results: Printed & Manuscript African Americana
Institutional purchases dominated the buying field at our auction of Printed & Manuscript African Americana on M…
#5WomenArtists: Lisa Crescenzo’s List
As part of Women’s History Month, we’re offering a week of #5WomenArtists, inspired by the National Museum of Women …
William Johnson’s Jitterbugs
Two extremely scarce prints from William H. Johnson’s Jitterbugs series will make their auction debut with Afr…