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John Larson’s Specialist Picks: Five to Watch in the March 2, 2023 Sale
John Larson, Swann’s nineteenth and twentieth century literature specialist, shares five exciting lots from the March 2, 2023 sale of Fine Books & Autographs. An Inscribed First Edition of Richard...
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19th & 20th Century Art: March 23, 2023 Auction Highlights
Man Ray, Do Not Destroy (Object Indestructible, 1923-1975), wood & metal metronome with printed eye, conceived circa 1922-33, executed 1974. Estimate $50,000 to $80,000. Dada & Surrealism We...
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Printed & Manuscript African Americana: March 30, 2023 Auction Highlights
Manuscript broadside of the 13th Amendment signed by the Vice President & 111 congressmen, Washington, 1865. Estimate $80,000 to $120,000. Our March 30 Printed & Manuscript African Americana...
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Artist Profile: Edward Penfield
Edward Penfield, the Father of the American Poster “A poster should tell its story at once—a design that needs study is not a poster, no matter how well it is executed. We are a bit tired of the very...
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Records & Results: Fine Photographs Winter 2023
The February 2023 timed-app exclusive sale of Fine Photographs brought $996,156 with 220 of the 266 lots offered finding buyers, an 83% sell-through rate by lot. Richard Avedon, George Harrison, dye...
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African American Art: April 6, 2023 Auction Highlights
Left: Winifred Rembert, Doll’s Head Baseball, dye on cared & tooled leather, circa 2006. Estimate $120,000 to $180,000; right: Winifred Rembert, Jeff’s Pool Room, dye on carved & tooled...
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Printed & Manuscript Americana: April 13, 2023 Auction Highlights
C.E. Lester, editor; after portraits by Brady, The Gallery of Illustrious Americans, New York, 1850. Estimate $7,000 to $10,000. Our April 13 Printed & Manuscript Americana auction features an...
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Artist Profile: Joseph Cornell
Joseph Cornell & His Own Brand of American Surrealism Though now considered one of the few American proponents of Surrealism, Joseph Cornell was apprehensive about the affiliation, once admitting...
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Fine Photographs: April 27, 2023 Auction Highlights
Roger Fenton, Valley of the Shadow of Death, salted paper print, 1855. Estimate $20,000 to $30,000. We are excited to present A Singular History of Photography: 100 Works from the Stephen White...
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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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Early Printed Books: May 4, 2023 Auction Highlights
William Shakespeare, King Lear; Othello; and Anthony & Cleopatra; Extracted from the First Folio, London, 1623. Estimate $60,000 to $80,000. This spring’s EPB sale features the third installment...
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Fine Photographs: April 27, 2023 Auction Highlights
Roger Fenton, Valley of the Shadow of Death, salted paper print, 1855. Estimate $20,000 to $30,000. We are excited to present A Singular History of Photography: 100 Works from the Stephen White...
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Rick Stattler’s Auction Selections for Spring 2023
Spring has just about sprung, and Rick Statler—Swann Galleries’ resident Americana specialist, and director of the house’s books and manuscripts department—is sharing a selection of lots from the 2023...
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Records & Results: Spring 2023 Sale of Printed & Manuscript African Americana
African Americana brings $1.3M making it the highest-grossing sale for the category and the third-largest sale for Swann’s books and manuscripts department Our annual Printed & Manuscript African...
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Collector’s Guide: A Look at Whaling History on Paper
The adventure and horror of the whaling industry have never ceased drawing the attention of collectors. Here, Rick Stattler, director of books and manuscripts, shares a selection of lots that have...
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Old Master Through Modern Prints: May 11, 2023 Auction Highlights
Albrecht Dürer, St. Jerome in his Study, engraving, 1514. Estimate $20,000 to $30,000. Our Old Master Through Modern Prints sale will offer impressions spanning printmaking’s more than four hundred...
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Specialist Picks: Fashion Photography from the April 27, 2023 Auction
Beyond Fashion: Photography in a Category Overlooked in the Fine Art Lexicon Though ostensibly fashion photography is simply intended to sell a product or a lifestyle, the category also offers a...
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Graphic Design: May 18, 2023 Auction Highlights
Ladislav Sutnar, Vystava Modernize Obchodu / [Modern Commerce Exhibition], 1929. Estimate $12,000 to $18,000. Swann’s annual Graphic Design auction gets better and better with each passing year. As...
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Modern & Post-War Art: May 25, 2023 Auction Highlights
Norman Lewis, Untitled, (Blue Abstraction), oil on canvas, 1966. Estimate $40,000 to $60,000. Our May 25th Modern and Post-War Art auction has a wide array of art from the Post-Impressionist era,...
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Swann’s Favorite Independent Bookstores of 2023
Swann started as a specialized auction house for rare books in 1941 and we continue to hold auctions dedicated to the genre every year (as the saying goes: once a book house, always a book house), so...
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