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Auction Highlights: Autographs — November 14, 2024
Timed Auction — Lots begin closing Thursday, November 14 at 12:00 PM ET Lots 1-25: Popular Culture Lot 8 illuminates this section like a film projector on the silver screen. It contains a 1964...
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Auction Highlights: Printed & Manuscript Americana — November 21, 2024
At Auction Thursday, November 21 at 10:30 AM ET Catalogue & Bidding This sale strikes a particularly rich vein of western mining material from Alaska, California, Colorado, and Nevada. Highlights...
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Auction Highlights: Contemporary Art — November 26, 2024
At Auction Tuesday, November 26 at 12:00 PM ET Catalogue & Bidding We are in the middle of an exciting fall season here in New York and we would like to share some of the upcoming highlights in...
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Artist Profile: Roberto Kazuya Sakai
Picking a favorite work of art in our season’s auction lineup is kind of like picking a favorite puppy in a litter. I love them all in different ways, and if I could, I would take each lot home with...
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Collecting 101: Estimating a George Washington Autograph for Auction
A question I am frequently asked by non-collectors or people new to collecting is, “How do you estimate the value of an autograph?” The question is not easy to answer because there are so many factors...
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Auction Highlights: Maps & Atlases, Natural History & Color Plate Books —...
At Auction Tuesday, December 10 at 12:00 PM ET In this December auction we are offering a range of collectible material including nineteenth-century illustrated ship logbooks, Jacques le Moyne’s...
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Swann in Profile: Lisa Crescenzo
After 10 years with Swann and the reorganization of the house’s fine art offerings, Lisa Crescenzo is now the Managing Director of Fine Art. As she transitions into her new role we asked a few...
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Auction Highlights: Illustration Art — December 12, 2024
At Auction Thursday, December 12 at 12:00 PM ET Catalogue & Bidding The December Illustration Art auction offers an array of iconic works spanning magazine illustrations, book art, animation, and...
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Barkley Hendricks Still Life Paintings
Swann Galleries is very proud to have been the first auction house to sell the paintings of the great late Barkley Hendricks beginning in 2009. We were also the first auction house to sell his...
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Records & Results: Printed & Manuscript Americana — November 21, 2024
Swann’s Thursday, November 21 auction of Printed & Manuscript Americana brought $608,036, landing squarely in the pre-sale estimates, with 234 of the 320 lots offered finding buyers. Of the...
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Auction Highlights: Fine Photographs — December 17, 2024
Timed Auction — Bidding Now Open!Lots Begin Closing December 17, 2024 Catalogue & Bidding This December, we are pleased to offer more than 100 lots from the Collection of Neil Robert Berzak. Rich...
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Records & Results: Contemporary Art — November 26, 2024
The November 26, 2024, Contemporary Art auction served as the first with Nigel Freeman as Swann’s head of fine art. “High prices for excellent examples of Pop art prints by Andy Warhol and Roy...
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Iconic Cover Artists for The Saturday Evening Post
They say you can’t judge a book by its cover, but magazines are an entirely different story. A magazine cover is a visual embodiment of the publication’s identity. The name, layout, logo, and graphic...
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California Modernism: Photography from Group f/64
The perpetual sunshine and endless summer enjoyed by California natives has traditionally been linked to the glamor and film industries. But in the 1920s and thirties, a community of...
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2024: Year in Review
2024 was an eventful year for Swann that brought about exciting changes, including the reorganization of our Fine Art Department, which saw Nigel Freeman step in as the head of the department and Lisa...
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View from The Podium: A Look Back At 2024
Swann has been called many things over the years: Swann Galleries; Swann Auction Galleries; Swann’s [sic], sometimes New York’s oldest specialty auction house. But in the fall of 2024, writing for...
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Auction Highlights: Abstract Beauty: The Collection of Patricia Scipio-Brim —...
At Auction Thursday, February 6 at 2:00 PM ET On Thursday, February 6, Swann Galleries proudly presents “Abstract Beauty: The Collection of Patricia Scipio-Brim” to honor the legacy and enterprise of...
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Abstract Beauty: Nigel Freeman on the Collection of Patricia Scipio-Brim
Patricia Scipio-Brim (1947 – 2023) was born and raised in Trinidad and Tobago, the first of six siblings. She immigrated to New York in the 1970s after she graduated from Bishop Anstey High School....
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Auction Highlights: The Artist’s of the WPA — January 30, 2025
Timed Sale — Bidding Now Open! Lots begin closing Tuesday, January 30 at 12:00 PM ET Works in photography, cartography, printmaking, posters, and painting are all represented in this reflection on how...
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A Collecting Journey: Patricia Scipio-Brim
Jennifer Stewart, art collector, advisor, and friend of Patricia Scipio-Brim, recounts her friendship with Patricia, their shared love of art, and Patricia’s sharp eye for collecting. Jennifer Stewart...
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