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Tissot's October
Fall seems the appropriate time to examine James Jacques Tissot's luminous 1878 etching and drypoint titled Octobre. Tissot (1836-1902) was a successful French society artist who built his career on...
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For many years we have been gratified to hear from our clients and friends how easy to use and logically designed the Swann website is. But as technology changed it became clear that we would have to...
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Mark Michaelson: Crime Becomes Collectible
Murder and mayhem have long fascinated photographers and film aficionados, and are also inextricably linked with collectors of vernacular photography. But, how did the mugshot become a fine-art...
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The Cover Image: Fine Photographs & Photobooks
Daile Kaplan, Swann Vice President and Director of Photographs, shares her thoughts on the cover image for the October 17 auction of Fine Photographs & Photobooks.When Aaron Siskind transitioned...
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Contemporary African-American Art in Orange, NJ
Nigel Freeman and Otto Neals, ValleyArts Photo by Dawan AlfordAnyone interested in contemporary African-American art will want to check out the growing artist community of Orange, NJ, where, on October...
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Weegee's Unique Angle on Pinup Photography
We are very pleased to post this write-up by Francesca Altamura, who started an internship with the Photographs department this summer. Francesca has spent time curating and contributing to the...
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African-American Fine Art Cover Lot: A Previously Unknown Norman Lewis Painting
The image chosen for the cover of Swann's upcoming sale Point of Departure: Postwar African-American Fine Art is a circa 1957 Untitled oil on canvas by Norman Lewis. The previously unrecorded painting...
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A 21st Century Tintype
Deborah Rogal, Senior Specialist in Swann's Photographs Department, contributed this post.Recently I was lucky enough to visit New York City’s Center for Alternative Photography to have my tintype...
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Daile Kaplan to Conduct Auction at CPW Benefit Gala Oct. 19
On Saturday, October 19, Daile Kaplan, Director of Swann's Photographs & Photobooks Department, will serve as auctioneer for the 2013 Benefit Gala at the Center for Photography at Woodstock. The...
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The Locke Collection Comes to The Hampton University Museum
Opening this weekend at The Hampton University Museum is TheDianne Whitfield-Locke & Carnell Locke Collection: Building on Tradition. The exhibition, featuring more than 60 works of art collected...
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The Armory Show at 100: An Introduction to the Catalogue
This is the first in a series of posts about Swann's upcoming November 5 auction titled The Armory Show at 100: America's Introduction to Modern Art.The following essay by Todd Weyman, Swann's Director...
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Francisco José de Goya and Modern Art
Francisco Goya Y Lucientes, Pintor, aquatint and etching, 1799, from Los CaprichosFrancisco José de Goya (1746-1828) was included in the Armory Show as the first artist in the organizers' timeline of...
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Kindergarten and the Building Blocks of Design
Among the visually appealing works in tomorrow's auction of Art, Press & Illustrated Books is a fascinating pedagogical workbook in the manner of Kindergarten founder Friedrich Wilhelm August...
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James A.M. Whistler in the 1913 Armory Show
Lot 20 in Swann's Armory Show at 100 auction is Whistler's 1889-90 lithograph, The Little Nude Model, Reading.There were four paintings by James A.M. Whistler (1834-1903) in the Armory Show; all of...
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Mary Cassatt: Celebrated Female Impressionist
Edgar Degas's etching and drypoint depicting Mary Cassatt at the Louvre; Lot 29 in Swann's Armory Show at 100 auctionBorn in Philadelphia into a well-to-do family, Mary Cassatt (1844-1926) spent most...
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The Cult of Edward Gorey
Promotional photograph for the theatrical production of DraculaSwann has seen some incredible auction results for rare and collectible works by the merrily macabre writer and artist Edward Gorey. But...
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Ambroise Vollard: The Art of the Deal
Ambroise Vollard (1866-1939) was a major dealer and publisher in Paris from the 1890s until his death in a car accident in 1939. Initially trained as a lawyer, he is now generally remembered as a...
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Update From Ehrenbreitstein
Back in January, Swann Galleries auctioned what might have been an original watercolor by J.M.W. Turner. Originally catalogued in our Old Master Drawings auction as a Circle of Turner view From...
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Paul Cézanne: A Lightning Rod for Criticism at the Armory Show
Amid all of the shock, sensationalism and bewilderment surrounding many of the works in the 1913 Armory Show, much of the harshest criticism was levied at the paintings of Paul Cézanne, though these...
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Upcoming Highlights: Early Printed, Medical & Scientific Books
Swann's November 12 auction of Early Printed, Medical & Scientific Books features religious texts, early manuscripts and illuminated works, incunabula, scientific treatises, philosophical classics...
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