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Auction Highlights: African American Art — April 4, 2024
Hughie Lee-Smith, Ball Player, oil on canvas, 1970. Estimate $150,000 to $250,000 Our sale begins with a wonderful group of artworks from the Harlem Renaissance that epitomize the period: a scarce...
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5 European Expressionist Artists to Know
The March 14 sale of 19th & 20th Century Art features a strong selection of original artworks, among them a run of those working in Eastern Europe in the first half of the twentieth century during...
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Art for Life: A Benefit for the Rush Philanthrophic Arts Foundation — April 4
This special evening celebration of the Rush Philanthropic Arts Foundation will offer an opportunity to collect contemporary works while supporting Rush. Join us in person, online, or over the phone...
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Auction Highlights: Fine Books — April 11, 2024
This spring’s newly minted sale will bring together a range of collecting areas, including early printed books, artist’s books, literature from the seventeenth century through to the twentieth, and...
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Auction Highlights: Old Master Through Modern Prints — April 18, 2024
Hieronymus Bosch (After), The Temptation of St. Anthony, engraving, 1561. Estimate $8,000 to $12,000 A compelling selection of scarce and desirable prints includes woodcuts, engravings, etchings,...
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The Art of the Harlem Renaissance, in Print and Plaster
The landmark exhibition The Harlem Renaissance and Transatlantic Modernism at the Met here in New York has brought deserved new attention to the visual art achievements of Harlem Renaissance. Many of...
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Records & Results: Printed & Manuscript African Americana — March 21, 2024
Swann’s March 21, 2024 sale of Printed & Manuscript African Americana proved once again to be a success among institutions and collectors alike. The sale brought $967,061, closing well within the...
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8 Works to Collect For Spring
After a few false starts, spring has finally sprung in New York City. The days are longer, the parks are in full bloom, and the streets are filled with pedestrians taking in the warmer temperatures....
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A Brief Publishing History of Don Quixote
Collectors of Don Quixote have fastened on to the complex parameters of published editions like true bibliomaniacs. Tracking down each morsel of minutiae appeals to those of us with a certain...
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Auction Highlights: Modern & Post-War Art — May 2, 2024
Catalogue & Bidding Janice Biala, Untitled (Interior with Blue Kettle), oil on canvas, 1957. Estimate $8,000 to $12,000 William Grosvenor Congdon, The City, oil and gouache on board, 1949....
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Auction Highlights: Tennis & Sports Posters: Collection of the Schwartz...
Leopoldo Metlicovitz, E. & A. – Mele – & Ci. Napoli, billboard, 1907. Estimate $7,000 to $10,000. Swann’s May 9 poster auction offers the world’s most preeminent private tennis and sport...
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Records & Results: African American Art — April 4, 2024
Swann Galleries’ April 4, 2024 sale of African American Art brought crowds back to the sale room with a selection of standout modernist works alongside a contemporary selection sold to benefit the...
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Records & Results: Fine Books — April 11, 2024
Swann Galleries’ spring offering of Fine Books on April 11, 2024, brought $974,793, with 84% of the lots finding buyers. The auction was the first of a combined format featuring Early Printed Books,...
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Essential Modern & Post-War Art Terms & Movements — Part II
Harold Porcher’s Illustrated Glossary of Modern & Post-War Movements II Read Part I The post-war era of art, as an auction category, is simply a construct used to differentiate art movements...
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Collecting Vintage Olympic Posters
Collecting Olympic posters was straightforward up until the 1964 Tokyo Olympics. Prior to those games, the International Olympic Committee would choose one official poster (on some occasions, they...
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Auction Highlights: Fine Photographs — May 16, 2024
Catalogue & Bidding Cindy Sherman, Untitled Film Still #52, silver print, 1979. Estimate $120,000 to $180,000. Our May 16 auction is headlined by two iconic female photographers, Dorothea Lange...
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Surrealist Centennial: 100 Years of the Surrealist Manifesto
André Breton’s Surrealist Manifesto was first published in 1924. Breton, a writer and member of an earlier art movement known as Dada, penned the ideas of himself and his compatriots. Voicing their...
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Auction Highlights: Focus on Women — May 23, 2024
Catalogue & Bidding The May 23, 2024, Focus on Women sale features books, prints, original art, photographs, ephemera, archives, and more produced by women from the 16th century through the 21st....
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The Woman’s Eye: Seven Women Photographers to Know
Though utilizing a variety of artistic practices and genres, from portraiture, self, and of others to photojournalism and social documentary, the photographers highlighted here have all used the...
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Auction Highlights: Contemporary Art — June 6, 2024
Our June 6 Contemporary Art auction will offer an array of artwork spanning five decades of original works, prints, and multiples. The sale will begin with the works of abstract expressionists,...
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