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Panoramic Views of New York City
In this digital era we take for granted the ability to create a panoramic view of a setting--there's even an app for that. But, back in the late 19th century, creating such a photograph involved toting...
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Top Lots: Old Master Drawings
On January 29, after a five-year hiatus from sales of Old Master Drawings, Swann returned to the category during Old Masters Week in New York with an excellent sale of more than 300 drawings. The top...
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Director of Photographs Daile Kaplan on Why We Chose the Cover Image
The Kertész photograph gracing the cover of the cover of our Fine Photographs catalogue is a rare and important vintage print. The photograph was created during the period Kertész worked in Paris and...
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Notes from the Catalogue: Wyatt Houston Day on the Emancipation Proclamation
Reading the Emancipation Proclamation, steel engraving by J.W. Watts, Connecticut, 1864. “We hold these truths to be self evident, that all men are created equal” declares the extraordinary document...
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Lowry Family Collection of Czech Posters at the Dutch Poster Museum this Spring
On Sunday, March 24, the Affichemuseum, or Poster museum, in Hoorn will open its doors for a special exhibition of Czech Posters From the Collection of the Lowry Family of New York City. The posters,...
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Pursuing Theodore Roosevelt
Gregory Wynn speaking about his friend and fellow TR collector, Peter ScanlanThis past Friday night, Swann hosted a talk by Theodore Roosevelt collector Gregory Wynn, titled "Pursuing Theodore...
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Share Your Passion for Photography
Attention photography lovers: Swann has launched an online project and we want you to participate. We're calling it Photophilia, which is defined as an obsession, a desire, a love of photographs.Visit...
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Notes from the Catalogue: Dürer's Meisterstiche
Albrecht Dürer's Melencolia I, St. Jerome in His Study and Knight, Death and the Devil, all from 1514 and related in size, style and technical complexity, have been considered his master engravings (or...
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Full Frontal: Grant Wood's Sultry Night
The last time Swann auctioned Grant Wood's 1939 lithograph Sultry Night, it brought $36,000--a record price for any print by the artist at auction. Another impression is among the highlights of our May...
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Notes from the Catalogue: Picasso's Dora Maar
Among the highlights of our May 1 auction of Old Master Through Modern Prints is a brilliant, richly-inked impression of Pablo Picasso's aquatint, scraper, burin and drypoint, Femme au fauteuil II:...
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Vintage Posters on Antiques Roadshow
Here's a preview of tonight's episode of Antiques Roadshow, featuring Swann President and Principal Auctioneer Nicholas Lowry assessing some of poster artist David Klein's groovy designs for TWA in the...
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Christine von der Linn on Irving Oaklander
Next Thursday, May 9th, our sale of Art, Press & Illustrated Books will feature the inventory of the late Irving Oaklander, known to all who sought rare books about graphic design, typography and...
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A Russian Avant-Garde Landmark Work
Among the highlights of Swann's Art, Press & Illustrated Books auction on Thursday is Mikhail Larionov's copy of Vladimir Mayakovsky's Dlia Golosa [For the Voice], which was designed by Lazar...
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Swann Loves Madison Square Park
Todd Weyman poses with Orly Genger's art installation in Madison Square ParkOne of the great things about working at Swann Galleries is its proximity to Madison Square Park, a beautiful oasis in the...
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Ulysses S. Grant: The Early Years
A 1855-65 portrait of Grant. Source: Wikimedia Commons.Ulysses S. Grant, a man whose persistence brought him to the highest offices in U.S. military and politics, had a surprising early life—surprising...
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Notes from the Catalogue: Maps & Atlases
Among the highlights of Swann's June 6 auction of Maps & Atlases, Natural History & Historical Prints, Ephemera is a Final Commissioner's Map of New York City by John Randel, Jr., printed on...
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Swann's Art Fair Hangover Party Sponsored by Russian Standard Vodka
On Tuesday, May 14, Swann hosted a lively post-Frieze Art Fair Hangover party with cocktails by Russian Standard Vodka.Swann clients, friends and newcomers mingled and previewed Contemporary Art from...
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Top Lots: Vintage Posters
Our third best poster sale of all time–Swann’s annual winter Vintage Posters auction on February 5 featured stunning examples of the Art Nouveau greats! Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec and Alphonse Mucha...
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Top Lots: African American Fine Art
The love was felt at Swann's February 14 auction of African-American Fine Art where multiple artist records were set! The sale's top lot was Barkley L. Hendricks’s 1970 life-size portrait of a disc...
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Top Lots: Fine Photographs
Swann's February 26 auction of Fine Photographs prominently featured property from the estate of Fong Chow, whose collection included several early albums and groups of photographs taken in China,...
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