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Artist Profile: Will Barnet
Swann Galleries’ September 21, 2023, American Art sale features a special section of approximately 30 works by Will Barnet from the artist’s estate. A Career That Spans Decades Barnet spent the...
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Auction Highlights: Fine Photographs — October 5, 2023
View Lots Our October 5, 2023, Fine Photographs auction features a wide range of rare and important work including an unusually large-format example of Harry Shunk and Jànos Kender’s Le Salut de le...
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Auction Highlights: African American Art — October 19, 2023
The October 19, 2023, sale of African American Art will feature exceptional modern and contemporary works of abstract and figurative art. Norman Lewis, Mood Madness, oil on canvas, 1959. Estimate...
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Auction Highlights: Early Printed Books — October 12, 2023
View Lots The fall Early Printed Books auction on October 12, 2023, will feature lots from three important collectors, including more from Ken Rapaport, as well as works on the history of psychiatry...
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Part I: The Einstein-Serbu Correspondence
One of the best-known modern Romanian historians, Nicolae Iorga, has the distinction of being one of the few scholars of his day or before to document the lives of educated Romanian women [See “Ce...
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First Impressions: Elizabeth Catlett & Charles White at the Taller de Gráfica...
In 1946, in what would become the last year of their brief marriage, Elizabeth Catlett and Charles White shared a career-changing experience living and working in Mexico City. They had each been...
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A Brief Introduction to Post-War Japanese Photography
Post-war Japanese photography witnessed significant developments and innovations that reflected the changing social, cultural, and political landscape of Japan. The devastation caused by World War II...
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Part II: The Einstein-Serbu Correspondence
One of the best-known modern Romanian historians, Nicolae Iorga, has the distinction of being one of the few scholars of his day or before to document the lives of educated Romanian women [See “Ce...
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Auction Highlights: Fine Books & Autographs — October 26, 2023
View Lots Autographs The spirits of conflict and exploration are intertwined in the autographs on offer. Among the most respected explorers of the unknown are scientists, each of whom must contend...
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Devon Eastland’s Specialist Picks: What to Watch in the October 12, 2023 Auction
Devon Eastland shares her picks for the October 12, 2023, sale of Early Printed books. Gothic Novels Gothic Novels from left to right: Lot 96: Horace Walpole, The Castle of Otranto, a Story....
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Auction Highlights: Old Master Through Modern Prints — November 2, 2023
View Lots Old Master Prints Lots 1 – 124 From left to right: Lot 1: Martin Schongauer, Christ Appearing to Mary Magdalene, engraving, circa 1480-90. Estimate $15,000 to $20,000; Lot 9: Albrecht Dürer,...
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Auction Highlights: Rare & Important Travel Posters — November 9, 2023
View Lots Swann’s autumn 2023 auction of Rare & Important Travel Posters on November 9 is another wonderful, geographic tour de force, with some of the most compelling and infrequently seen...
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Unsung Heroes: Black Ceramicists
Yet you, LORD, are our Father. We are the clay, you are the potter; we are all the work of your hand. – Isaiah 64:8 Ceramicists are inherently connected to the earth through their manipulation of...
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Auction Highlights: Contemporary Art — November 16, 2023
View Lots Swann’s Contemporary Art auction on November 16 spans the last fifty-plus years of artistic creativity, encompassing mid-century Abstract Expressionism to the present day, with compelling...
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Auction Highlights: Modern & Post-War Art — November 30, 2023
The fall Modern & Post-War Art auction will include work from the early twentieth century through post-World War II art movements such as Pop, Minimalism, and Abstract Expressionism. Jack Tworkov...
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Records & Results: African American Art — October 19, 2023
Swann Galleries’ October 19 sale of African American Art proved consistent among new contemporary artists and auction house favorites. Regarding the auction, department director Nigel Freeman noted,...
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Artist Profile: Norman Wilkinson
In Norman Wilkinson’s own words, his “whole interest was ships and the sea.” He was an illustrator and maritime painter of great renown (one of his paintings was commissioned to hang in the smoking...
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Prints & Drawings’ Specialist Picks: What to Watch in the November 16, 2023,...
Our Prints & Drawings department shares their picks for the November 16, 2023, sale of Contemporary Art. Meagan Gandolfo, SpecialistLot 119: Norman Ives, Untitled, 1977 In the Prints and Drawings...
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Auction Highlights: Maps & Atlases, Natural History & Color Plate Books —...
View Lots Lot 84: Johann Carl Muller, Der Teufels Belt Gemeiniglich Genannt der Lange Insels Sund, map of Long Island, New York City, and parts of the Hudson River and Connecticut coast, Leipzig,...
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Essential Modern & Post-War Art Terms & Movements — Part I
Harold Porcher’s Illustrated Glossary of Modern & Post-War Movements In early 2020 I joined Swann and created the Modern & Post-War Art department. This category goes against the grain...
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