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Records & Results: November 2021 Sales at Swann
November Sales at Swann Bring $6.7M November at Swann Galleries featured a marathon of fine art auctions including a two-day sale of Old Master Through Modern Prints and Master Drawings, a private...
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Artist Profile: Georges Lepape
Georges Lepape: Patriotism & Sentimentality in World War I Era Women’s Magazines World War I invaded every aspect of public life, including illustrated magazines of the period. While some women’s...
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Upcoming Highlights: The Artists of The WPA — January 27, 2022
“Art and democracy are one and the same.”President Franklin D. Roosevelt at the formal address of the opening of the Museum of Modern Art, 1939 The New Deal not only established a great legacy, but a...
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2021: Year in Review
As we close out another successful year at Swann we look back at our record-filled sales. The Artists of the WPA John Vachon, a select group of 38 vintage silver prints, circa 1937–42. Sold for...
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Fine Photographs: Celebrating 70 Years of Photographs at Swann
Over 70 years ago, Swann held the first auction dedicated to photography in the United States. This 1952 photography auction was astonishingly early for a sale devoted to a medium just 113 years old...
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Fine Books & Autographs: February 17, 2022 Auction Highlights
The auction has a number of autographs by inspiring innovators, including the cover of the 1982 issue of Time magazine featuring Steve Jobs, signed by him. If the greatness of the designer does not...
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Vintage Posters: February 24, 2022 Auction Highlights
Boasting curious and graphic gems from across centuries and around the world, this auction includes a broad range of images. From the earliest and most wonderful examples of Art Nouveau, the works of...
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Harold Porcher’s Specialist Picks: The Artist of the WPA — January 27, 2022
Harold Porcher, Director of Modern & Post-War Art and lead specialist for the Artists of the WPA sale on January 27, 2022, shares three standout paintings from the auction. Browse Catalogue View...
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Swann Opens 2022 with Whirlwind Auction Celebrating the Artists of the WPA
Browse the Complete Results for the 2022 Artist of the WPA Sale The house opened 2022 with The Artists of the WPA on Thursday, January 27. The follow-up to an inaugural 2021 sale proved the staying...
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19th & 20th Century Art: March 10, 2022 Auction Highlights
Käthe Kollwitz, Die Klage, bronze, 1938-41. Estimate $10,000 to $15,000. Highlights include a recently discovered self portrait by the Italian modernist Giacomo Balla, Il disperato; Autoritratto, oil...
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Deborah Rogal’s Specialist Picks: 5 Photographs from the 70th Anniversary Sale
Armed with seven decades of photography history at her disposal, and nearly 20 years in the field, Swann photographs and photobooks director, Deborah Rogal, shares five of her favorite images from the...
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Danny Lyon’s Civil Rights Photography
Humanist and documentary photography offer a poignant and intimate view of moments of history. Like the images from the FSA photographers capturing the worry and despondency of those living in...
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Sarah Bernhardt, Mucha’s Muse
Imagine, if you will, the most famous actress you can think of: accomplished, multifaceted, beautiful, and globally recognized. Odds are you’re thinking of someone from Hollywood. Now imagine her with...
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Collecting Vintage Winter Sports Posters
The modern Olympic Games were first held in 1896, with an appropriate historical nod to antiquity, in Athens, Greece. It wasn’t until 28 years later, in 1924, that the first Winter Olympic Games would...
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Printed Manuscript & African Americana: March 24, 2022 Auction Highlights
View Lots Browse Catalogue Our March 24 Printed Manuscript & African Americana sale will feature important material, from slavery through the civil rights era, as well as noteworthy literature and...
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African American Art: March 31, 2022 Auction Highlights
Norman Lewis, Untitled (Rhodedendrons), oil on canvas, circa 1948. Estimate $350,000 to $500,000. Our spring auction of African American Art features many scarce and significant postwar and...
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Records & Results: 70 Years of Photographs at Swann
On February 10, 2022, we held Fine Photographs: Celebrating 70 Years of Photographs at Swann, not only did the sale mark the 70th anniversary of photography auctions at the house but in the United...
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Upcoming Highlights: Printed & Manuscript Americana April 7, 2022
Robert Orr, letter about an arms inspection for Eli Whitney — with the earliest known reference to Uncle Sam, 1803. Estimate $6,000 to $9,000. This auction will have an emphasis on local highlights...
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Artist Profile: Édouard Vuillard
Édouard Vuillard, Les Grands Arbres, oil on card. Estimate $15,000 to $20,000. We are pleased to offer some outstanding works on paper by Édouard Vuillard in our March 10, 2022 auction. These color...
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Fine Photographs: April 14, 2022 Auction Highlights
Horst P. Horst, Carmen Face Massage, platinum-palladium print, 1946. Estimate $12,000 to $18,000. Edward S. Curtis — The North American Indian The April 14 auction will be headlined by the seminal...
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