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Charles Stewart Parnell's Appeal to the Irish People of America
In advance of our March 19 Autographs auction, specialist Marco Tomaschett contributed this blog post.Charles Stewart Parnell (1846-1891) founded the Irish Parliamentary Party (IPP) in 1874 and helped...
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Revisiting German Expressionism
Max Beckmann's drypoint Holzbrücke is among the German Expressionist works in our March 5 auction.Our March 5 auction of 19th & 20th Century Prints & Drawings features an exceptionally strong...
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An Exceptional Autograph Album That Was Made to Be Sold
During the American Civil War, and especially in the years 1863-64, civilians in a number of large, northern U.S. cities organized fairs in which donations of various kinds were solicited for the...
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Norman Lewis and the Venice Biennale
In advance of our April 2 African-American Art auction, we are pleased to have this blog post from Imani Higginson.Norman Lewis’s painting Cathedral (1950) was featured in the exhibition "American...
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African-American Artists on View in Philadelphia
Henry Ossawa Tanner's Boy and Sheep Under a Tree was on loan to the Philadelphia Museum of Art for many years.The show Represent: 200 Years of African-American Art currently on view at the Philadelphia...
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James A. M. Whistler: Art For Art's Sake
The afternoon session of Swann's April 29 auction of Old Master Through Modern Prints opens with more than 90 exceptional prints by James A.M. Whistler from a private collection, offered in their own...
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Vernacular Spectacular: A Note About Our Photographs Catalog
Daile Kaplan, Swann Vice President and Director of Photographs & Photobooks, contributed the following post in response to recent questions about Vernacular Photography:Within the past few days,...
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PROOF's Annual Benefit Auction: Storytelling for Social Justice
Swann is pleased to announce a partnership with PROOF: Media for Social Justice, whose annual benefit auction will be held in our auction rooms in June. Over the years, this benefit auction and...
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Notes From the Catalogue: Berenice Abbott
Berenice Abbott (1898-1991) moved to New York City's Greenwich Village from the midwest in 1918 to live in its now legendary community of artists, radicals, writers and bohemians. There she met a host...
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A Famous Cartographic Blunder: The Island of California
Henry Briggs, The North part of America Conteyning... the large and goodly Iland of California, double-page engraved map, London, 1625. Estimate $8,000 to $12,000.For more than a century, the state of...
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Notes From the Catalogue: Irving Penn
Irving Penn, Vionnet Lampshade Dress, platinum-palladium print, 1977. Estimate $12,000 to $18,000.Whether applied to fashion or flowers, Irving Penn's iconic, clean and quietly demonstrative style was...
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Both Sides of the Lens: Photographs of American Artists
Lot 325 Arnold Newman, Georgia O'Keeffe, Ghost Ranch, N.M., silver print, 1968. Mirroring our current cultural fascination with reality television, the art world has seen a surge of interest in...
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Ladislav Sutnar's Visual Design in Action--a Book, a Kickstarter and Talk by...
Ladislav Sutnar, III Delnicka Olympiada [Third Workers Olympiad], poster, 1934.Inspiration-driven publisher Designers & Books is currently running a Kickstarter campaign to fund a facsimile...
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Covarrubias and Rivera: Men at the Crossroads
Miguel Covarrubias, Rockefeller Discovering the Rivera Murals, gouache and ink on paper, 1933. Estimate $7,000 to $10,000. Composed in 1933, this caricature by Mexican artist Miguel Covarrubias shows a...
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Notes From the Catalogue: Mary Nimmo Moran
The following essay was contributed to Swann's upcoming American Art catalogue by Shannon Vittoria, a Ph.D. Candidate in Art History at the Graduate Center, City University of New York. Vittoria is...
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Visionaire: A Look at the FUNdamentals of Collaboration and Design
Whether it's musicians recording a song together, a star-studded cast coming together for a production or visual artists joining forces on a work, collaborative works have long sparked special interest...
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Warhol's Wild Raspberries: Delectable Drawings with a Side of Tangy Text
From lot 369, Andy Warhol and Suzie Frankfurt, Wild Raspberries, 1959. Are you exhausted by gourmet cuisine? Wearied by the sight of an elaborately laid table? Andy Warhol and Suzie Frankfurt felt much...
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Gertrude Stein: "Looking is not vanishing"
Imogen Cunningham, Gertrude Stein, silver print, 1937, printed before 1973. Sold April 4, 2012 for $4,320.Known as a writer, art collector and host to the innovative, elite and avant-garde, Gertrude...
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Records & Results; Ascension: A Century of African-American Art
The sale’s top lot was Barkley Hendricks’s Steve, an iconic painting that embodies the look and attitude that Hendricks famously captured in his late 1970s life-size portraits. Steve was exhibited in a...
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Records & Results; Old Master Through Modern Prints
Our April auction brought in a total of $3.22 million, with three pieces by James A.M. Whistler going for spectacular six figure prices. Todd Weyman, Swann Galleries Vice President and Director of...
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