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Grounded in Life
Figurative artists Eldzier Cortor, Hughie Lee-Smith and Charles White stayed true to their roots in social realism as their work evolved in the post-war decades. Unlike contemporaries Charles Alston,...
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Top Lots: Art, Press & Illustrated Books
Swann's October 11 sale of Art, Press & Illustrated books resulted in strong prices from examples of fine art press books to pop art portfolios. Notably, Gustav Klimt's first and only monograph,...
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Swann is pleased to announce that power is back in the Flatiron district, and we will be open for previews on Saturday, November 3, from noon to five pm. Please join us tomorrow to preview two stellar...
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One Week: Two Auctions
Swann Galleries is pleased to be back open and to offer two outstanding auctions in one week. Tomorrow we will conduct a sale of Old Master Through Modern Prints, which was originally scheduled for...
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The Artist's Doctor
Today's auction of Old Master Through Modern Prints features an impression of Vincent van Gogh's only etching, titled Homme à la Pipe: Portrait du Docteur Gachet. Following his clash with Gauguin in...
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Manhattan in the Dark
Last week, when millions of people in New York, New Jersey and Connecticut lost electricity due to Hurricane Sandy, we were reminded of earlier times, when the lights of New York weren't quite as...
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Three Christmas Cards From Artists
The holiday season seems to have surprised everyone this year with its early arrival, but there is still time to get your Christmas cards in order. Need inspiration? Look no further than Swann's...
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A Postcard from Picasso
Swann's upcoming Autographs auction features numerous signatures from founding fathers, Presidents, scientists, inventors, writers and musicians. Among the material in the sale related to artists is a...
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Send Us Your Monster & Maiden Photo!
We want to see you posed like this!Fancy yourself a movie meanie? Feel like a damsel in distress?Find yourself a partner and enter Swann's Monsters & Maidens Photo Contest.In celebration of our...
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Happy Hanukkah!
We're loving these cookies - they're Swann blue!Happy Hanukkah from Swann Galleries!
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The Specialist's Notes on Monsters & Maidens
Dr. Israel Perry, a poster dealer, collector and book publisher, began collecting movie posters for his own pleasure. As he writes in the introduction to the book about this collection, Beauty and the...
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We Have a Winner!
We received some wonderful submissions to our Monsters & Maidens Photo Contest--and we are pleased to announce that our celebrity judge, Judah Friedlander, has chosen a winner! Morgane Delmas of...
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Top Lots: Fall 2012 Book Auctions
The last three months of 2012 saw several stellar book auctions at Swann. On October 11, a sale of Art, Press & Illustrated Books resulted in a record price for Gustav Klimt's only monograph, Das...
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Drawings Abound at Swann in the Next Two Weeks
The 2013 Swann auction schedule starts earlier than usual this year, and two auctions of drawings and original art have us abuzz with previews and sales in January.Michael Hague, The Boy and the...
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Likely J.M.W. Turner Original Watercolor Discovered In Swann's January 29 Old...
Exciting news from Swann's Prints & Drawings Department: A watercolor in our upcoming Old Master Drawings auction that was catalogued as from the Circle of Joseph M.W. Turner has now been revealed...
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The Armory Show at 100: America’s Introduction to Modern Art
This year we celebrate the 100th anniversary of the famed 1913 Armory Show. The seminal show was originally held in the 69th Regiment Armory at Lexington & 25th Street, just across the street from...
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Last Week's Top Lots: 20th Century Illustration
Set of 48 proof plates of illustrations from Charlotte’s Web, illustrations by Garth Williams, watercolored by Rosemary Wells for the 50th Anniversary edition, signed by Wells, New York, 2002.Swann's...
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Early Photographs of Asia from the Estate of Fong Chow
Swann Galleries' February 26 auction of Fine Photographs features several early photographic albums filled with images of Asia that come from the Estate of Fong Chow.Chow (1923-2012) was a renowned...
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Blues for Smoke at the Whitney
Beauford Delaney's Portrait of a Young Musician, part of the Blues for Smoke exhibition.A new exhibition at the Whitney Museum of American Art called Blues for Smoke presents a selection of work by...
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Distortion: André Kertész's French Period
Hungarian-born photographer André Kertesz’s relocation to Paris in 1925 exposed him to a community of avant-garde painters and photographers intent on infusing modernism’s new visual vocabulary into a...
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