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Records & Results: Fall 2016
Fall 2016 has been a successful season at Swann. In 13 sales, we set more than 50 auction records and offered 4,497 lots, including a rediscovered illustration by Dr. Seuss, a sensational autograph...
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Sarah Bernhardt, Mucha’s Muse
This post was written by Associate Cataloguer & Administrator for Vintage Posters Sarah Shelburne for our January 26 auction, Alphonse Mucha & Masters of Art Nouveau: The Harry C. Meyerhoff...
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Alphonse Mucha: Behind the Magic
Even those unfamiliar with Alphonse Mucha’s name will recognize the tendrils of hair and profusion of delicate flowers surrounding his seraphic models. But what of the man himself? How did these...
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Notes from the Catalogue: Harry C. Meyerhoff
What makes Alphonse Mucha & Masters of Art Nouveau: The Harry C. Meyerhoff Collection so special? Amazingly, this is the first auction dedicated to a private collection of posters and works by...
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Edgar Allan Poe: Birthday & A Lost Photograph
Today, on what would be Edgar Allan Poe’s 207th birthday, we take a look at an exceedingly rare and unusual lot in our upcoming sale of Icons & Images: Photographs & Photobooks on February 14,...
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Records & Results: Alphonse Mucha
On Thursday, January 26, we opened the 2017 season with a landmark sale of Alphonse Mucha & Masters of Art Nouveau: The Harry C. Meyerhoff Collection, the largest private collection of works by the...
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Lunar Photography Through The Ages
This guest post was written by Keavy Handley-Byrne of the Photographs & Photobooks Department, for our February 14 sale of Icons & Images: Photographs & Photobooks. The moon has been the...
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Lucien Clergue’s Unpublished Photobook of Picasso
A fine example of the photobook as an art object will appear in our February 14 sale: Icons & Images: Photographs & Photobooks. It is the maquette for Clergue’s unpublished book project, titled...
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A Menagerie in 19th & 20th Century Prints & Drawings
We have already covered the prevalence of cats in art, but our upcoming March 2 sale of 19th & 20th Century Prints & Drawings boasts an irresistible menagerie of friends beyond the feline....
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Records & Results: Icons & Images: Photographs & Photobooks
On Tuesday, February 14, we offered Icons & Images: Photographs & Photobooks, 65 years to the day after Swann held the first U.S. auction dedicated to photographs, The Marshall Sale, on...
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Portfolios by Chagall and Vuillard at Swann Galleries
This guest post was written by Prints & Drawings Senior Specialist Sylvie François. Two of the top lots in our March 2 sale of 19th & 20th Century Prints & Drawings are portfolios, each...
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Was Walter Sickert Really Jack the Ripper?
Though the official identity of Jack the Ripper has never been determined, there are those who believe Walter Sickert, the Impressionist painter called the most talented British artist* between Joseph...
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Marc Chagall’s Four Tales From the Arabian Nights
In 1948, Marc Chagall was asked to produce a set of lithographs for Pantheon Books’ publication of Four Tales from the Arabian Nights. The project represents the artist’s first foray into lithography,...
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Machiavelli’s “The Prince”& Its Influence
Three books in our upcoming sale of Early Printed, Medical, Scientific & Travel Books tell a dizzying story of power, betrayal and misunderstanding, the reverberations of which can still be felt...
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Ski Posters Swoosh into Swann
Our March 16 sale of Vintage Posters will offer 91 early twentieth-century ski posters, representing all areas of interest avid ski poster collectors seek, from geographic variety to stylistic...
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Records & Results: Early Printed Books
On Thursday, March 9, Swann Galleries offered a morning auction of Early Printed, Medical, Scientific & Travel Books. Lot 73: A leaf from the Gutenberg Bible, in Newton’s A Noble Fragment, Mainz,...
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Records & Results: 19th & 20th Century Prints & Drawings
On Thursday, March 2, our sale of 19th & 20th Century Prints & Drawings exceeded $3M and broke ten auction records. Lot 551: Marc Chagall, Four Tales from the Arabian Nights, complete deluxe...
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John Augustine Washington III & Mount Vernon
From the catalogue for our March 30 sale of Printed & Manuscript African Americana. The sale will feature a run of 16 lots of letters and ephemera from Mount Vernon before its dissolution. John...
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Los Angeles Assemblage Artists
From the catalogue of our April 6 sale of African-American Fine Art. Lot 99: Timothy Washington, Raw Truth, engraving on aluminum with assemblage including cast iron, wood, nails, a zipper and a...
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Miriam Matthews, Collector & Advocate
A note from the catalogue of our April 6 sale of African-American Fine Art. Miriam Matthews (1905 – 2003) Lot 88: Dan Concholar, The Shaman Moves Through Hollywood (Hollywood Series), color...
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