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Daile Kaplan on Photography Archives Panel at ICP Sept. 5 and 6
Swann Vice President and Director of Photographs & Photobooks, Daile Kaplan, will be a panelist at the American Photography Archives Group (APAG)'s seminar on September 5 and 6. APAG is an...
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WWI&II, Grand Prix and Tennis Images Led Swann's Top August Posters Auction...
Alphonse Mucha's Art Nouveau advertisement for JOB rolling papers was the top lot in our August 6 auctionComing on the heels of tremendous media coverage (see: The Telegraph, The Daily Mail, Luxury...
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Warm Weather Specialists: What Our Experts Are Up to This Summer
Our auction rooms may be dark until September, but that doesn't mean our specialists aren't busy these days. In addition to combing through consignments and cataloguing lots for our Fall 2014 auctions,...
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Behind the Mask: The Danish Girl and the Erotic Art of Gerda Wegener
A plate from Allatini's Sur Talons Rouges, illustrated by Gerda Wegener.Many of the biggest names in Hollywood have been rumored to be part of an upcoming film based on the David Ebershoff novel The...
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Nick Brandt, Activist-Photographer: "I Stick with Nature"
The delicate condition of the natural world is vividly brought to life by Nick Brandt, who organized the Big Life Foundation to protect wild animals in East Africa. This British photographer employs a...
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White Line: Blanche Lazzell and the Provincetown Printers
Swann's upcoming September 23 auction featuring American Prints & Drawings includes Blanche Lazzell's Tulips, color woodcut on Japan paper, 1920, created by the artist in Provincetown,...
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75 years of Madeline
In honor of the 75th anniversary of everyone's favorite French schoolgirl, Swann's Art Books specialist Christine von der Linn submitted this post.A featured item in our inaugural Illustration auction...
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What Is an After Print?
One of the most common questions we get asked at Swann is what it means when a lot is catalogued with the word "after" in parenthesis following an artist's name. To answer, it helps to take a look at a...
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Notes from the Catalogue: The Lady with Green Hair
Swann's September 23-24 auction contains nearly 800 lots, including an impressive selection of Modern European Prints and Drawings. Among these, works by Pablo Picasso and Henri Matisse stand out, and...
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Must-See Fall Show: Norman Lewis & Lee Krasner at the Jewish Museum
Last week, From the Margins: Lee Krasner and Norman Lewis opened at the Jewish Museum. The exhibition combines the works of an unlikely pair: Lee Krasner, a female Jewish artist well known for being...
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The U.S. Scene: Thomas Hart Benton and American Regionalism
Lot 367: a Self-Portrait of Thomas Hart Benton.Our September 23 auction offers a particularly strong selection of American Regionalist examples including an extensive collection of Thomas Hart Benton...
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Happy Birthday, Alma Thomas!
This Untitled watercolor from Alma Thomas's Space Series, circa 1969-72, is featured in our October 9 auction.Alma Woodsey Thomas, abstract painter and art educator, was born on this date in 1891 in...
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Notes from the Catalogue: Dr. Amalia Amaki on Dr. Richard A. Long
Dr. Amalia Amaki, noted art historian and artist, wrote the catalogue introduction for The Richard A. Long Collection of African-American Art. Dr. Amaki, a native Atlantan, received her Ph.D in 1994 at...
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Link to a Turbulent Past
O. Winston Link’s photographs have infused Swann's Photograph Department auctions with a consistent, quiet power for years, but lot 175 brings a new dramatic force to the October 17 sale. O. Winston...
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American Books Printed Before the Bay Psalm Book?
The Bay Psalm Book is often described as the first book printed in America. Issued in Cambridge, Massachusetts in 1640, it was certainly the first book printed in the English colonies of America, and...
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Notes from the Catalogue: Diego Rivera's Printmaking Career
Diego Rivera (1886-1957), the painter who helped establish the Mexico Mural Movement and was a leading figure in Social Realism, was born in Guanajuato in North-Central Mexico. In 1897, Rivera began...
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In Memoriam: W. Michael Mathes, by Brian Dervin Dillon, Ph.D.
On November 6, Swann will auction The Latin Americana Library of Dr. W. Michael Mathes. The catalogue for the auction begins with a biography of the sale's namesake, written by Brian Dervin Dillon,...
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Wearable Art: Basquiat Tags a Jacket
A highlight in our upcoming auction of Contemporary Art is a leather jacket tagged by various 1980s graffiti artists, including Jean-Michel Basquiat (1960-1988). These artists frequented the popular...
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Elizabeth T. Miller: Mid-century American Adventurer in Guatemala and Mexico
In our November 25 auction, we are offering an archive of a young woman on a tour of the Mayan ruins. She was Elizabeth T. Miller (1911-1985) of Baltimore, a commercial artist visiting Guatemala and...
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In Flux: The Art of the Everyday
Examples of Fluxus artwork appear in many of our auctions, and demand seems to be on the rise for works by the group, which was active from the early 1960s through the late 1970s. There have been...
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