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New York Through Photographs
New York City, in its state of inevitable change, its restless power, its siren’s call to dreamers and doers, has proven irresistible to the camera’s lens. Photographers have captured the city’s...
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Artist Profile: Lili Elbe
Lili Elbe was a Danish painter, trans woman, and one of the earliest recipients of gender-affirming surgery in 1930. The child of Ane Marie Thomsen and spice merchant Mogens Wilhelm Wegener, Elbe was...
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Stompers Gallery & Its Leather Fetish Art Lineage
Stompers, a West Village boot store, was owned by classical composer Louis Weingarden. The store also featured a gallery in the backroom of its retail space at 259 West Fourth Street that exhibited...
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Auction Highlights: The New York Sale — September 26, 2024
Catalogue & Bidding In honor of the 400th anniversary of the founding of New York City, Swann Galleries is bringing back the New York sale. From a monotype by Abraham Walkowitz featuring the...
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Auction Highlights: African American Art — October 3, 2024
Catalogue & Bidding Our October 3 auction of African American Art features exceptional and innovative post-war painting, including an outstanding New York painting by Beauford Delaney. Acquired...
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Movement on Paper: The Work of Abraham Walkowitz
“Isadora was my strongest weakness. She was like music. When she moved, it was like the sound of violins,” said Russian-American painter Abraham Walkowitz of his muse, modern dancer Isadora Duncan....
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A Look at Midcentury Modern Vintage Posters Advertising NYC
In viewing mid-century modern posters depicting New York City, it is a curious surprise to find a direct graphic line drawn between 1947 and 1956, as four of the most prominent (and spectacular) of...
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Auction Highlights: Rare & Important Travel Posters — October 10, 2024
At Auction Thursday, October 10 at 12:00 PM ET Catalogue & Bidding October’s travel poster auction is a journey around the world and a trek through the Who’s Who of famous travel poster designers,...
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Suzanne Jackson & Bill Russell: There is Something Between Us
Suzanne Jackson’s painting There is Something Between Us brings together two legendary figures from two very different worlds. The arenas of professional sports and contemporary art have little in...
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Works from the Estate of Dr. Constance E. Clayton
Lot 28: Charles Ethan Porter, Chrysanthemums, oil on canvas, circa 1881-83. Estimate $15,000 to $25,000. Swann Galleries is honored to be presenting a group of artworks in our October 3 auction from...
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Auction Highlights: Old Master Through Modern Prints — October 17, 2024
At Auction Thursday, October 17 at 10:30 AM ET Catalogue & Bidding Swann continues its tradition of presenting a premiere selection of important prints in our October 17 auction of Old Master...
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Artist Profile: Nelson Stevens
I create from the rhythmic color-rappin’-lifestyle of Black folk. I believe that art can breathe life, and life is what we are about. — Nelson Stevens Early Life Born in Bedford-Stuyvesant, Brooklyn,...
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Auction Highlights: Fine Books — October 24, 2024
At Auction Thursday, October 24 at 10:30 AM ET Catalogue & Bidding This fall’s sale promises to tempt with bibliographic rarities from before the invention of movable type through the twentieth...
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Auction Highlights: Fine Photographs — October 31, 2024
At Auction Thursday, October 31 at 10:30 AM ET The October Fine Photographs auction opens with a selection of 45 lots from a California Collection. Examining photography as an element of the story of...
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Leslie Ragan Calendars for the New York Central Railway: A Unique Pictorial...
For an artist with such a prominent place in the American pantheon of poster designers, very little biographical information exists about the life of Leslie Ragan. He is best known for his exceptional...
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Sarah McMillan’s Specialist Picks: 5 Lots to Watch in Old Master Through...
Ahead of her first sale as the head specialist for Old Master Through Modern Prints, Sarah McMillan shares five works to watch in the October 17 auction. Hendrick Goltzius, Icarus from The Four...
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Records & Results: African American Art — October 3, 2024
African American Art Sets Six Artist Records The Thursday, October 3, 2024, sale of African American Art at Swann brought $3M and saw top prices for artists, with six records being set. Nigel Freeman,...
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Specialists in the Field: James Baldwin’s Century
Anthony Barboza, James Baldwin – Writer, silver print, 1975. Sold October 2016 for $11,250. Swann autographs specialist Marco Tomaschett visited the Schomburg Center to view their display celebrating...
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Auction Highlights: Modern & Post-War Art — November 12, 2024
Working on canvas and wooden support, Bernard Réquichot danced the fine line between figurative and abstract forms to produce surrealist compositions with an allure of familiarity. His paintings...
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Photographers Who Captured the Changing Landscape of the American West
America was, in some ways, founded on the idea of land. A restless push West, a desire to “discover,” to claim, and to shape, has formed the American identity. Here, land is a political, romantic, and...
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