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Records & Results: Illustration Art
Illustration Art Sale at Swann Sets Six Records Al Hirschfeld’s Marx Brothers Tops Auction at $26k Our auction of Illustration Art on December 6 saw a bustling auction room as well as live bidding...
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Records & Results: Maps & Atlases, Natural History & Color Plate Books
Runaway Currier & Ives Print with Special Ties to Thomas W. Streeter Sets Record at Swann We closed out our fall season with a marathon sale of Maps & Atlases, Natural History & Color...
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Upcoming Highlights: Printed & Manuscript Americana
At Auction April 16 Complete Catalogue Coming Soon This sale includes a dramatic Texan diary by William Farrar Smith, commanding an expedition to find the best trail from San Antonio to El Paso in...
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Upcoming Highlights: African-American Fine Art
At Auction April 4 Complete Catalogue Coming Soon A powerful charcoal drawing by Charles White, Caliban, 1950, is one of the top lots in the sale. Never exhibited publicly, this rediscovered work...
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Cheloniidae: Sea Turtles
The Richard Lee Callaway Collection of Alan James Robinson & the Cheloniidae Press The collection of the late Richard Lee Callaway forms the cornerstone of the fine printing and private press...
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How to Never Miss a Drop of the Hammer
with Swann Galleries’ App Live online bidding is seamless with Swann Galleries’ App, where you can browse catalogues and bid live, with no extra fees. Another bonus? You can watch lots, place...
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First Color Photographs by Vivian Maier to Come to Auction
From the Collection of Ron Slattery Our February 21 sale of Photographs: Art & Visual Culture boasts a personal album compiled and sequenced by Vivian Maier. The album, consisting of 22...
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The Posters on Your Shelf: Scarce Books & Portfolios
At the end of the nineteenth century, the craze of poster collecting was at an all-time high. As a result, publishers formed subscription services in limited runs so that the public could collect the...
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Upcoming Highlights: 19th & 20th Century Prints & Drawings
Featuring Property from the Ismar Littmann Family Collection At Auction March 5 Complete Catalogue Coming Soon Our morning session will begin with Property from the Ismar Littmann Family...
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Specialists in the Field: Nigel Freeman at the Wallach Art Gallery
Nigel Freeman, our African-American Fine Art director, stopped by the Wallach Art Gallery at Columbia University to view Posing Modernity: The Black Model from Manet and Matisse to Today. Nigel...
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Records & Results: Fine Illustrated Books & Graphics
Georges Rouault’s Livres d’Artiste Lead Swann Galleries’ Fine Illustrated Books & Graphics We opened out 2019 season with Fine Illustrated Books & Graphics which boasted numerous auction...
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In Your Hands or On the Wall: an Appreciation for the Tangible Photograph
Our upcoming sale of Photographs: Art & Visual Culture celebrates photographs as objects. Daile Kaplan, the house’s Director of Photographs & Photobooks, shares her appreciation of the...
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Highlights from the Ismar Littmann Family Collection of German Expressionism...
A Historic Collection Few collectors in Breslau during the early 1900s had a passion for connoisseurship, collecting and the visual arts equal to Ismar Littmann, who amassed more than 6,000 works of...
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The Story of the Ismar Littmann Family Collection
Our March 5 sale of 19th & 20th Century Prints & Drawings will feature Property from the Ismar Littmann Family Collection of German Expressionism and European Avant-Garde. Director of Prints...
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Records & Results: Vintage Posters
Alphonse Mucha & Art Nouveau Lead Vintage Posters at Swann Our February 7 sale of Vintage Posters saw numerous firsts and records. Nicholas D. Lowry, Swann President, noted: “Lively bidding for...
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Swann Galleries’ Guide to Rare Book Week 2019 in NYC
Rare Book Week kicks off March 5 in NYC. We gathered a selection of our favorite events happening throughout the week, as well as several not-to-be-missed exhibitions. See you there! Fairs New York...
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Records & Results: Photographs & Photobooks
A Record for Malick Sidibé in Swann Photo SaleVernacular albums of nineteenth-century India bring $30k Lot 229: Malick Sidibé, 38 silver prints in custom frames highlighting West African Culture,...
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Upcoming Highlights: The Pride Sale
At Auction June 20 Complete Catalogue Coming Soon Swann Galleries’ first Pride Auction, an exploration and celebration of the art, influence, history and experience of the LGBTQ+ community, being...
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Upcoming Highlights: Classic & Contemporary Photographs
At Auction April 18 Complete Catalogue Coming Soon Our diverse April auction bridges classical and contemporary visual idioms with important work, including Robert Mapplethorpe’s Lisa Lyon, Dorothea...
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Records & Results: 19th & 20th Century Prints & Drawings
Ismar Littmann Family Collection Shines in Swann Galleries’ Prints & Drawings Sale Our sale of 19th & 20th Century Prints & Drawings on March 5 earned $2.7M, with property from the...
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