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Records & Results: American Art
Modernists Lead American Art at Swann We continued the spring 2019 season with a sale of American Art on June 13, which boasted three artist records. American Modernists Lot 216: Attilio...
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Records & Results: The Pride Sale
Historic Pride Sale at Swann Brings Market Premiers and Auction Records Lot 154: Peter Hujar, David Wojnarowicz: Manhattan-Night (III), silver print, 1985. Sold for $106,250, a record for the...
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Swann Summer Reading List 2019
As an auction house that has specialized in rare and antiquarian books for nearly 80 years, it is unsurprising that our team loves reading. What better circumstance to do so than under a tree, on a...
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2019 Spring Season in Review
A season of firsts. The 2019 spring auction season at Swann Galleries delivered an impressive range of sales, rife with auction premiers and record prices. We started our season off in January with an...
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Our Best Pictures of the Apollo Missions & Space at Large
And space is large. It’s a place of unknown proportions, and the lines of scientific inquiry and exploration are far-reaching. Since the first lunar landing 50 years ago, we have mapped the surfaces...
View ArticleTelling Queer Stories: The Challenges of Unearthing a History
What are the inherent challenges in telling a history that is still being unearthed, and what can media and material objects add to that story? Against the backdrop of the exhibition for our first...
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Swann in Profile: Lauren Goldberg
With the newly opened Poster House museum as a backdrop, we spoke with Specialist Lauren Goldberg in our Vintage Posters Department about, well, what else—posters! You’ve been at Swann nearly...
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Sergio Trujillo Magnenat: A Pioneer in Colombian Graphic Design
Featured in our August 7 sale of Vintage Posters is a rare selection of four advertisements for the first Bolivarian Games by Sergio Trujillo Magnenat. The posters feature athletes engaging in...
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On Buying a Vintage Poster: What You Need to Know
So you’ve fallen in love with a vintage poster. It’s been beckoning you from the corner of your favorite antique shop for weeks, or perhaps it’s calling to you from the pages of one of our auction...
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Herman Melville: A Bicentennial Celebration
Photo Courtesy of Library of Congress Even if you’ve never read Moby Dick, you have no doubt heard of Herman Melville and his literary masterpiece. Today, August 1, 2019, we celebrate the author,...
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Fall 2019: 19th & 20th Century Prints & Drawings
Upcoming Highlights At Auction September 19 Martin Lewis, Glow of the City, drypoint, 1929. $20,000 to $30,000. Complete Catalogue & More Highlights Coming Soon Exhibition Open September...
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Fall 2019: African-American Fine Art
Upcoming Highlights At Auction October 8 Hale Woodruff, Landscape No. 2, oil on canvas, circa 1966. $75,000 to $100,000. Exhibition Open October 3–8 The exhibition is free to attend and open to...
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What—exactly—is the Swann Shelf Sale?
A Bookseller’s Bonanza The Swann Shelf Sale is something like a well-known secret within the New York City book trade. “It is definitely one of the most actively attended sales at Swann—there is a...
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Fall 2019: Printed & Manuscript Americana
Upcoming Highlights At Auction September 26 Large embroidered textile of the Great White Fleet, with portraits of Theodore Roosevelt, Rear Admiral Robley D. Evans and his successor Charles Stillman...
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Record Prices and Market Debuts Abound in Summer 2019 Sale of Vintage Posters
Our summer sale of Vintage Posters on Wednesday, August 7 was a lively event with active bidding across all platforms. “Many of the auction’s niche collecting categories saw heated competition for...
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Fine Books & Manuscripts: Fall 2019
At Auction October 10 Upcoming Highlights Autographs Annie Oakley, photograph signed & inscribed on verso, 1901. $1,500 to $2,500. Browse More Autographs for Fall 2019 19th &...
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Fine Sculpture by African-American Artists: Fall 2019
At Auction October 8 Upcoming Highlights Discoveries abound in our fall 2019 auction of African-American Fine Art, with a fine selection of sculpture. Two of Augusta Savage’s most well-known...
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From Abstract Expressionists to Color Field Painters—African-American Fine...
At Auction October 8 Upcoming Highlights Sam Gilliam, Untitled, acrylic, 1974. $25,000 to $35,000. A choice selection of abstract paintings feature in our October 2019 sale of African-American...
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Women of Color Featured in African-American Fine Art: Fall 2019
At Auction October 8 Upcoming Highlights Elizabeth Catlett, Dancing, color lithograph, 1990. $6,000 to $9,000. At Swann, we’re lucky to contribute to an overall market correction, offering...
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Art, Press & Illustrated Books: Blake, Cocteau & Rackham—Fall 2019
Fine Books & Manuscripts At Auction October 10 Upcoming Highlights William Morris, News from Nowhere: or, an Epoch of Rest, Being Some Chapters from a Utopian Romance, Kelmscott Press, 1892....
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