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Swann in Profile: Skye Lacerte
The start of the fall 2023 season at Swann brought Skye Lacerte as a specialist for the Illustration Art department. We chatted with Lacerte to discuss all this illustration art. View Lots from the...
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Auction Highlights: Illustration Art — December 14, 2023
View Lots Lot 148: Dean Cornwell, Sherring followed the lane with the tramp’s air of alertness, oil on canvas, published in Cosmopolitan, 1934. Estimate $20,000 to $30,000. After a brief hiatus, the...
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Original Disney Studios Animation Cels in the December 14 Illustration Art...
The December 14, 2023 auction of Illustration Art at Swann Galleries features a selection of original animation cels from Walt Disney Studios’ iconic films. Lot 15: Harry Reeves, Reflection in ice,...
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What’s in a Sale: Focus on Women
Swann held its first sale dedicated to the accomplishments of women on July 15, 2021. The sale, curated by senior specialist Devon Eastland, included materials that aimed to highlight the stories of...
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Auction Highlights: The Artists of the WPA — January 25, 2024
Claude Clark, Drafting, oil on board, circa 1940-41. Estimate $12,000 to $18,000. Swann is pleased to present our fourth Artists of the WPA auction this winter, 2024. The auction has a wide range of...
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2023: Year in Review
Swann Galleries continued to offer exceptional auctions of quality material in 2023. The year featured several collections, including a special selection of 100 works from the Stephen White collection...
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Auction Highlights: The Subculture Sale — February 8, 2024
“The alternative current of expression that informed some before it became mainstream.” The Subculture Sale will bring works from the fringe, the avant garde and the indie for a look at the material...
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Auction Highlights: Vintage Posters & Graphic Design — February 29, 2024
Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, L’estampe Originale, 1893. Estimate $40,000 to $60,000. This auction will be a combination of many of Swann’s most desirable poster-collecting categories, presenting an...
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Auction Highlights: An American Century: The Collection of Dr. James & Debra...
Edward Weston, Dunes, Oceano (White Dunes), silver print, 1936. Estimate $20,000 to $30,000. We are pleased to offer a special auction of 100 lots from the Collection of Dr. James and Debra Pearl....
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Happening February 6 — Off the Wall: New Directions in Poster Collecting
Join Us Tuesday, February 6, 2024 at 6:00 PM ETPanel to Begin at 6:30 PM ET At Swann Galleries: 104 East 25th Street, 6th Floor, NYC Join Swann President, and Vintage Poster Director, Nicholas D....
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Collectors on Collecting: An American Century by Dr. James Pearl
Dr. James Pearl Reflects on Collecting American Photography I first became interested in photography in high school when I was given an Instamatic camera. In college, where I majored in chemistry, one...
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Nicholas D. Lowry’s Specialist Picks: Favorite Lots from The Subculture Sale
Nicholas D. Lowry shares his picks for The Subculture SaleBidding open now through February 8 There are so many exciting and wonderful items in our upcoming Subculture auction that it is hard to...
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Records & Results: The Artists of the WPA — January 25, 2024
Swann Galleries opened the winter 2024 season with the fourth iteration of The Artist of the WPA. The timed online auction closed Thursday, January 25, with an 89% sell-through rate by lot, earning...
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Auction Highlights: Autographs — March 7, 2024
George Gershwin, Piano solo and second piano score for “Rhapsody in Blue,” Signed and Inscribed on title-page. Estimate $6,000 to $9,000 This auction will contain property from the Forbes Collection,...
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Auction Highlights: 19th & 20th Century Art — March 14, 2024
Henri Matisse, Jeune Femme aux Poissons Rouges, pen an dink on the title page of Henri Matisse, Editions des Chroniques du Jour, circa 1930. Estimate $30,000 to $50,000 An array of fine art bridges...
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Auction Highlights: Printed & Manuscript African Americana — March 21, 2024
Black Patti, Greatest Singer of Her Race (Mme. Sissiereta Jones), poster, circa 1900. Estimate $5,000 to $7,500. One of our largest African Americana auctions to date includes important documentation...
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Records & Results: The Subculture Sale — February 8, 2024
“The Subculture Sale was an exciting foray into relatively new territory for Swann Galleries, not focusing on works from previous centuries, but, on the personally memorable. Among the scores of...
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Gilded by Association: Autographs in the March 7, 2024 Auction
Autographs provide the collector with a number of joys, one of which is their ability to bring you closer to people in another time and place. Of course, every autograph shows the trace of a person in...
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Artist Profile: Edward McKnight Kauffer
To look at the graphic design work of Edward McKnight Kauffer is to experience a master craftsman helping to propel modernism into the mainstream. He achieved the height of his creativity in the...
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Listen to Jackie Robinson Speaking at an Ohio Civil Rights Rally in 1964
This civil rights rally was held in Columbus, OH, a few months after the March on Washington and just as the congressional fight for the Civil Rights Act approached the final dramatic months....
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