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Autographs: Davy Crockett, Greta Garbo, Annie Oakley & Herman Melville—Fall 2019
Fine Books & Manuscripts At Auction October 10 Upcoming Highlights Annie Oakley, photograph signed & inscribed on verso, 1901. $1,500 to $2,500. A letter by John F. Kennedy, to NASA...
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19th & 20th Century Literature: Hemingway, Morrison & Tolkien—Fall 2019
Fine Books & Manuscripts At Auction October 10 Upcoming Highlights Ernest Hemingway, in our time, limited Paris first edition, Three Mountains Press, 1924. $25,000 to $35,000. Led by a...
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Fall 2019: Classic & Contemporary Photographs
At Auction October 17 Upcoming Highlights Richard Misrach, Stonehenge #1, split-toned silver print, 1976. $12,000 to $18,000. Portraiture, today’s ubiquitous social currency, forms the...
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Artist Profile: Norman Lewis
From the Margin to the Art Market Center Anthony Barboza, Norman Lewis—Painter, silver print, 1976. Sold Dember 13, 2007 for $1,320. Born in Harlem in 1909, Norman Lewis developed as a painter as...
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Artist Profile: Margaret Bourke-White
Photographer of Many Firsts Even from the daguerreian age of the 1840s, photography has been an equal-opportunity pastime. One artist who truly pushed the envelope was Margaret Bourke-White...
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Selections from the Sackner Archive of Concrete & Visual Poetry
Fine Books & Manuscripts At Auction October 10 Upcoming Highlights Timothy Ely, Consider Your Phantom Replies, hand-illustrated throughout, New York, 1982. $4,000 to $6,000. Before being...
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Artist Profile: Charles Addams
A Cartoonist of Incongruous Charm Charles Addams, Penguin Convention, cover illustration for The New Yorker, September 12, 1977. Sold June 5, 2018 for $30,000. With a proclivity to the grim,...
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Collecting American Prints: Property from Betty & Douglas Duffy, of the...
Betty and Douglas Duffy, of the Bethesda Art Gallery We are pleased to offer property from Betty and Douglas Duffy, of the Bethesda Art Gallery in our fall sale of 19th & 20th Century Prints...
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Fall 2019: Early Printed, Travel, Scientific & Medical Books
At Auction October 24 Upcoming Highlights Sir Isaac Newton, Opticks, first edition, first issue, London, 1704. $15,000 to $25,000. Complete Catalogue Coming Soon A choice selection of...
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Documenting the Underground Railroad: The Story Behind the Shugart Family Papers
Photograph of Zachariah Taylor Shugart. An extensive and detailed record of the Underground Railroad is set to come across the block in our upcoming sale of Printed & Manuscript Americana on...
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Rare Martin Lewis Etching Debuts in Fall 2019 Prints & Drawings Sale
We opened the fall 2019 season on Thursday, September 19 with a marathon sale of 19th & 20th Century Prints & Drawings earning more than $2M. Martin Lewis Martin Lewis, Men Working on...
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McArthur Binion: An Artist of “Simplicism”
Describing himself as a “Rural Modernist,” McArthur Binion is known for his paintings that encapsulate both simplicity and complexity. Our Fall 2019 sale of African-American Fine Art on October 8...
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Artist Profile: Vincent D. Smith
Born in 1929, Vincent D. Smith was a Brooklyn native and innovative African-American artist. By the late 1950s, he incorporated various modern approaches into his figurative painting practice,...
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Collecting Works by African-American Photographers
A superb selection of images by African-American photographers is set to come across the block in our fall 2019 sale of African-American Fine Art. Here we take a look at the offering that includes...
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The Making of an Image: Irving Penn’s Cuzco Children
Our October 17 sale of Classic & Contemporary Photographs features an impressive selection of portraiture from the last two centuries. The most significant is Irving Penn’s platinum-palladium...
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Archives Revealing Information on Slavery & the Underground Railroad Lead...
The Thursday, September 26 sale of Printed & Manuscript Americana at Swann Galleries was an overall success with an 88% sell-through rate, bringing in over $1M. Slavery & Abolition...
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Fall 2019: Old Master Drawings
At Auction November 5 Upcoming Highlights Giovanni Francesco Barbieri, il Guercino, The Holy Spirit Appearing to St. Gregory, chalk, circa 1640s. $8,000 to $12,000. This auction traces the...
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Fall 2019: Old Master Through Modern Prints
At Auction October 29 Upcoming Highlights Lot 228: Francisco José de Goya, Modo de Volar, aquatint and etching, circa 1824. $10,000 to $15,000. To commemorate the 350th anniversary of...
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Artist Profile: Aaron Douglas
Betsy Graves Reyneau, Aaron Douglas, oil on canvas, 1953. Courtesy of the National Portrait Gallery. New York was waiting for Aaron Douglas, though no one knew just how much, including the artist...
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The History of Books & Manuscripts at Swann Galleries
Bibliophilia is an Art at New York’s Oldest Auction House Bibliophiles of every denomination—Americana, autographs, art books, archives, atlases, ephemera, literature, maps—can find their niche at...
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