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Introducing Latinx Art: Olga Albizu, Nitza Tufiño & Carmen Herrera
This season Swann is introducing Latinx Art as a featured category in our May 26 Modern & Post-War Art auction. Latinx and Chicanx artists are addressing political issues locally and globally;...
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Collector’s Guide: Vintage Car Posters
There has been exciting and novel automobile advertising for as long as there have been cars. From the earliest days of automotive history in the late nineteenth century through the current day,...
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Illustration Art: June 9, 2022 Auction Highlights
Tasha Tudor, illustration for Frances Hodgson Burnett’s novel, The Secret Garden, watercolor & graphite, 1962. Estimate $7,000 to $10,000. The Spring Illustration sale features a rich selection of...
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Edward Hopper & His Contemporaries: Making a Modern American Art — June 30,...
Edward Hopper, Night Shadows, etching, 1921. Estimate $25,000 to $35,000. Tracing the development of modern American art during the early 20th century, this curated and thematic sale will center on a...
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Fine Books & Autographs: June 16, 2022 Auction Highlights
View Lots Browse Catalogue Lot 127: Albert Einstein & Rabindranath Tagore, photograph showing the Nobel Prize winners in physics and literature, signed by both, 1931. Estimate $30,000 to $40,000....
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Letters from Us: Epistolary Novels by Women
From Aphra Behn’s Love Letters Between a Nobleman and his Sister, 1684, to Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein, 1823, and Alice Walker’s The Color Purple, 1983, the epistolary approach to novel-writing has...
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Black Abstract Artists: Exploring Innovative Techniques
Abstract Artists From Alma Thomas to Jack Whitten Here we explore Black artists who have expanded abstract techniques that showcase unique aesthetics while examining current events, visually composing...
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Maps & Atlases, Natural History & Color Plate Books: June 23, 2022 Auction...
View Lots Lot 219: John Bachmann, Panorama of the Seat of War, New York, 1861. Bound portfolio of six chromolithographed topographic perspective maps of Confederate states at the outset of the...
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Collecting the Stage: Stephen Sondheim
In our 80 years as a company, Swann has always been an auction house dedicated to niche markets with specialists who are experts in their respective fields, but often our sales cross categories...
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John Larson’s Specialist Picks: 5 Books to Watch in the June 16 Auction
John Larson, Swann’s nineteenth and twentieth century literature specialist, shares five lots that are sure to draw interest in the June 16 sale of Fine Books & Autographs. First Edition of Peter...
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LGBTQ+ Art, Material Culture & History: August 18, 2022 Auction Highlights
Tom of Finland, Portrait of Eric, graphite, 1985. Estimate $20,000 to $30,000. This August, Swann is proud to host its fourth annual, LGBTQ+ Art, Material Culture and History sale. The success of our...
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Edward Hopper & His Contemporaries: 1900 – 1910
Making a Modern American Art At the turn of the twentieth century, artists began to confront the dominance of European academic influences within the American art sphere. In search of a new status...
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A Look at Edward Hopper’s Print Market
James Macry in our prints and drawings department examines two works that exemplify the market for Edward Hopper prints Edward Hopper first began printmaking in 1915, following the encouragement and...
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Vintage Posters: August 4, 2022 Auction Highlights
Keep Calm and Carry On, 1939. Estimate $12,000 to $18,000. In keeping with our August tradition, this sale will feature a plethora of World War I and II posters, sought-after classics and...
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Edward Hopper & His Contemporaries: 1910 – 1920
Making A Modern American Art Series The 1913 Armory Show Inspired by time spent in Europe, around 1910, Arthur Dove became the first American artist to paint an abstract painting. At this time,...
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Swann Summer Reading List 2022
Summer is well underway which means our auction schedule has slowed and our specialists and staff have a bit more downtime to catch up on their favorite books. Enjoy this year’s selection of Swann...
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Artist Profile: Roger Broders
The legacy of Roger Broders’ poster design has made his name synonymous with French Art Deco travel posters. His artistic career, as a whole, spans from the early twentieth century, when he began...
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Artist Profile: Hugh Steers
“I think I’m in the tradition of a certain kind of American artist (…) Edward Hopper, Jackson Pollock, Franz Kline—they all had this austere beauty to them. They found beauty in the most brutal forms....
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JEB & Shelby Sharie Cohen on Photographing the Lesbian Community
Swann’s LGBTQ+ Art, Material Culture & History sale represents a rare and unusual opportunity to bring fresh material to auction. In a market dominated by the male gaze, work by trans and...
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Beefcake Photography
Decoding “Beefcake” The term “beefcake” usually refers to a photographic display of muscular male physiques and is believed to have been first formally coined by Hollywood columnist Sidney Skolsky in...
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