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Artwork from the Collection of Artist James D. Smillie
Lot 290 in Swann's April 29 auction is Smillie's The Rocky Mountains (Lander's Peak), set of 12 engravings after Albert Bierstadt, progressive proofs, 1865-66. Estimate $20,000 to $30,000.This Spring,...
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Collectors on Collecting: Peter J. Cohen on "other people's photographs"
Peter J. Cohen Discusses his Snapshot Collection | April 8, 2014 from Swann Galleries on Vimeo.On April 8, Swann Galleries hosted a talk by photography collector and author Peter J. Cohen. An art...
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A Subject Comes to Light: Avery Willard Model Visits Swann
New discoveries are often made during our auction previews. Sometimes a guest will identify a place depicted in a work of art, or recognize a name in an inscription. One wonderful example took place...
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The Story Behind Dorothea Lange's Migrant Mother
It's an image we all know: The stalwart mother gazing ahead, brows furrowed, while her children huddle close. It is as iconic an image of the Great Depression as it is of motherhood. And yet, for...
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Battle of the Nile Sketch: The French Fleet on the Eve of Its Destruction
The watercolor battle scene is done from the perspective of Admiral Nelson's squadron as it approached Napoleon's fleet in Abu Qir Bay.Swann Galleries' June 3 auction of Maps & Atlases, Natural...
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Photographs at Play: Bill Hunt on the Morgan's Photography Exhibition
Celebrated photography collector and author--and Swann friend--Bill Hunt has written a wonderful review of the Morgan Library's A Collective Invention: Photographs at Play show--the first mounted by...
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Top Lots: Turn-of-the-Century Cyanotypes and Jimmy De Sana's Submission
Last week Swann Galleries held an auction devoted to Vernacular Photography, which was the first sale of its kind.Two items led the auction--bringing $22,500 each--and they could not have been more...
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Witness the Shape of Things to Come: Art From the Civil Rights Era
The Brooklyn Museum's Witness: Art and Civil Rights in the Sixties offers a focused look at painting, sculpture, graphics and photography from a decade defined by social protest and American race...
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Collectors on Collecting: Sam Speigel on Collecting Edward Gorey
On May 7, Swann will auction The Edward Gorey Collection of Samuel Speigel, and the catalogue for that sale opens with this charming recollection from Speigel himself:Lot 241:The Raging Tide: or, The...
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Dreaming Youths: Oskar Kokoschka's Transition to Expressionism
Among the highlights of our April 29 auction of Old Master Through Modern Prints is Oskar Kokoschka's Die Träumenden Knaben, with text and eight color lithographs, 1906-08. Die Träumenden Knaben (The...
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Top Lots: Wiener Werkstätte, Taller Grafica Popular, Andy Warhol Posters Set...
The three top lots in Swann Galleries' April 24 auction each set new auction records in a sale marked by incredible results for esoteric images. Lot 1 was Bertold Löffler's Kunstschau Wien. In 1908,...
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Where He Crosses Over: Edward Gorey Posters & Postcards
Lot 268: Edward Gorey's poster for New York City Ballet is a classic image--and not necessarily one that brings to mind Gorey."I didn't know GOREY did that poster!"That was the excited reaction of a...
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Today in History: Pulitzer Prize Winning Photo at Swann
On this date in 1969, Moneta Sleet, Jr. won the Pulitzer Prize for Feature Photography for this image of a mourning Coretta Scott King, with daughter Bernice, at the funeral of Dr. Martin Luther King,...
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The Shape of Things to Come
On June 10, Swann will hold our third African-American Fine Art sale of the 2013-14 auction season. The Shape of Things to Come focuses on art made in the 1960s and 70s by artists whose work is being...
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Catch Open Orange: May 9 Through June 8
Girl with Black Hair by James LongThis Friday, more than 100 works of art by 36 artists from New Jersey and New York will go on view at the ValleyArts Firehouse Gallery in Orange, NJ as part of the...
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Snippets of History
Marco Tomaschett, Swann Galleries' Autographs specialist, wrote this piece about clipped autographs, which appeared in Antiques & Auction News last week. Here is his piece in its entirety:Since...
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Top Lots: Lynn Chadwick Figures, Roy Lichtenstein's Crying Girl, Francis...
Lot 267: Lynn Chadwick's Two Winged Figures was the top lot on May 13 at $43,750.Tuesday's auction of Contemporary Art at Swann saw strong results and an usually high percentage of online bidders--in...
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Sense of Play: Will Barnet's Nude with Cats
Lot 232, Barnet's watercolor and oil, Play, differs from the later print.Among the highlights of our June 12 auction of American Art--and the image that graces the catalogue cover--is Will Barnet's...
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Kara Walker: The Talk of the Town
Alaina McEachin of Swann's African-American Fine Art Department wrote this insightful piece on art-world sensation Kara Walker.Worth the wait: Kara Walker's A Subtlety or the Marvelous Sugar...
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Let It Snow: Guy C. Wiggins's Views of New York City
With Memorial Day approaching, all of us here in New York are hoping for warm weather. But, among the most charming images in our June 12 auction of American Art, is a NYC skyline by an artist...
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