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Identifying Types of Photographic Prints
Keavy Handley-Byrne of our Photographs & Photobooks department has put together a cheat sheet for identifying some of the more common types of photographs we handle. A cyanotype print is made by...
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Black and White All Over: The Riddle of Classical Photography
The following was written by Vice President and Director of Photographs & Photobooks, Daile Kaplan: I love looking at photographs in both black-and-white and color iterations. Long before...
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Specialists in the Field: Sarah Shelburne at Dia: Beacon
One of the best parts of working at Swann is the ability to be surrounded by incredible varieties of art collecting and witness their intersection within our gallery. Our specialists (who are each, at...
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Gail Chisholm: A Life in Posters
Nearly a quarter of our March 1 auction of Vintage Posters is devoted to highlights from the collection of renowned poster dealer and aficionado Gail Chisholm. The sale will open with more than 130...
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A Look Inside the Catalogue: 19th & 20th Century Prints & Drawings
Diego Rivera’s scarce lithograph El sueño (La noche de los pobres), 1932, leads a vibrant section of Latin-American art in this dynamic sale. Opening the auction is a run of works by important...
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A Look Inside the Catalogue: Autographs
Gracing this sale is a poem completed by Walt Whitman on his deathbed, transcribed by a secretary and signed, with holograph edits. It was his last poem, entitled A Thought of Columbus, 1892. We...
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A Look Inside the Catalogue: Printed & Manuscript African Americana
This powerful auction on March 29 encompasses a wide range of the African-American experience, from letters by Frederick Douglass to his friend and fellow diplomat Ebenezer Bassett, to posters from...
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Vintage Posters 101
So you’ve fallen in love with a vintage poster. What next? Here are some of the most important things to consider when talking about, looking for, and decorating with vintage posters. We used some...
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A Look Inside the Catalogue: Early Printed, Medical, Scientific & Travel Books
This sale on March 8 will feature an extensive selection of early Spanish books on a variety of subjects including agriculture, heraldry and genealogy, history, horses, law, literature, medicine,...
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A Look Inside the Catalogue: Graphic Design
This popular annual event celebrates innovation in poster design. On May 3 we will offer examples of British Modernism from the 1940s by Frederick Henri Kay Henrion, Patrick Cokayne Keely and Zéró...
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A Look Inside the Catalogue: Printed & Manuscript Americana
Latin Americana includes significant early Mexican printing, with several books published before 1600. Alonso de la Vera Cruz’s Dialectica resolutio cum textu Aristotelis, 1554, is the first printing...
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A Look Inside the Catalogue: African-American Fine Art
Two highlights of this sale on April 5 are significant, vibrant paintings by modernist New York artists. Beauford Delaney’s large Untitled (Village Street Scene), 1948, depicts a Greenwich Village...
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A Look Inside the Catalogue: Printed & Manuscript Americana
Upcoming Highlights on April 12: Latin Americana includes significant early Mexican printing, with several books published before 1600. Alonso de la Vera Cruz’s Dialectica resolutio cum textu...
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A Look Inside the Catalogue: Fine Illustrated Books & Graphics
This multifaceted auction on April 26 spans media and disciplines, and features a private collection of important works on East Asian painting and decorative arts. Highlights include John Ayers and...
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A Look Inside the Catalogue: The Knowing Eye: Photographs & Photobooks
Our April 19 sale features a rare vintage print of Alfred Eisenstaedt’s iconic Premier at La Scala, Milan, circa 1933, and Frank’s quirky Portrait of art dealer Richard Bellamy, circa 1959....
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Erik Nitsche’s Modernist Vision
One of many highlights in our March 1 sale of Vintage Posters is a run of posters designed by Erik Nitsche in a series of campaigns for General Dynamics. Nitche’s design paved the way towards Modernism...
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The Earliest French Erotica
A titillating section in our March 8 auction of Early Printed, Medical, Scientific & Travel Books contains two scarce early examples of French erotica. Lot 75: Michel Millot and Jean L’Ange...
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Records & Results: Icons & Images: Photographs & Photobooks
We opened the 2018 season with a $1.6M auction of Icons & Images: Photographs & Photobooks on February 15. Important rare and unique work, both fine art and vernacular, brought a variety of...
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Specialists in the Field: Keavy Handley-Byrne & Diana Flatto at Magnum Manifesto
Specialists in the Field is our segment devoted to specialists incorporating their work into their lives and vice versa. Keavy Handley-Byrne of our Photographs & Photobooks department contributed....
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A Look Inside the Catalogue: 19th & 20th Century Literature
The May 15 auction of 19th & 20th Century Literature is replete with science-fiction cornerstones; of special note in this sale is a run of first editions by Philip K. Dick, including a signed copy...
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