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Taking a Closer Look: A Map of Kyoto as the Imperial Capital of Japan
The June 3 auction of Maps & Atlases, Natural History & Color Plate Books is marked by a number of unique or exceedingly rare examples of cartographic material and decorative graphics. Among a...
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Assemblage Artist Noah Purifoy at Auction for First Time
Swann Galleries is pleased to offer the first significant work by assemblage artist Noah Purifoy to come to auction in our upcoming sale of African-American Fine Art titled The Shape of Things to...
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Edward Gorey Drawings and Posters Top Lots from Speigel Collection
Swann Galleries' May 8 auction of Art, Press & Illustrated Books featured extraordinary material from the Edward Gorey Collection of Samuel Speigel. The exhibition was among the best attended we've...
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Whereabouts No Longer Unknown: Winslow Homer's Study for Fresh Air
On June 12, Swann Galleries will auction a pen and ink drawing by celebrated American illustrator and artist Winslow Homer--a study for his seminal, same-titled watercolorFresh Air. The painting is...
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Naturalist Charles Burchfield
If you've got summer on your mind these days--and who doesn't?--you may be drawn to some of the bucolic images in Swann's June 12 auction of American Art. And, among those lovely examples is Charles...
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Barkley L. Hendricks in Conversation with Nigel Freeman at Swann
Last week Swann Galleries had the pleasure of hosting an artist talk with Barkley L. Hendricks, whose "unique work resides at the nexus of American realism and post-modernism, a space somewhere between...
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Celebrating Bloomsday
To celebrate the life and literary oeuvre of James Joyce on the international holiday that is Bloomsday, we are looking back on some of the many editions of James Joyce's Ulysses that have been printed...
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Artist Talk: A Conversation with Barkley L. Hendricks & Nigel Freeman
As promised in an aforementioned blog post, a video featuring renowned artist Barkley L. Hendricks in conversation with Swann Galleries Director of African-American Fine Art, Nigel Freeman, is now...
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Vintage Tennis Posters in Swann's August 6 Auction
This year's summer auction of Vintage Posters at Swann Galleries includes an outstanding group of tennis images from a private Australian collection. The auction features images by well-known designers...
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Top Lots: Melville's Whale, Signed Flannery O'Connor Firsts, Rex Stout Titles
A first American edition of Moby-Dick (left) brought $40,000, while a fourth edition (right) sold for $7,168.Topping our June 19 auction of 19th & 20th Century Literature was a first American...
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Daile Kaplan & W.M. Hunt Go to Arles
Daile Kaplan, director of Swann's Photographs Department, and Bill Hunt, photo collector, author and Swann friend, are exhibiting collections at the Rencontres d’Arles photography show in France.For...
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Top Lots: William T. Williams, Barkley L. Hendricks and Walter Williams
Lot 61: William T. Williams, Truckin, acrylic on canvas, 1969. Sold June 10, 2014 for $137,000.An auction focused on the politically charged and artistically fertile period of the 1960s and 70s, Swann...
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Top Lots: Winslow Homer, Preston Dickinson and James D. Smillie
Lot 15: Winslow Homer's Study: Fresh Air, set a new record for a pen and ink drawing by the artist on June 12 at $106,250.The first of its kind at Swann to break $1 Million, the American Art auction on...
View ArticleRencontres d'Arles Director Interviews Daile Kaplan
As Swann Director of Photographs & Photobooks Daile Kaplan jets off to Arles, France for Les Rencontres d'Arles 2014, those of us left stateside stifle our jealousy and devour all of the great...
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News From Arles: Daile Kaplan on Instagram @popdaile #daileytravels
As previously mentioned, Swann's Photographs & Photobooks Director Daile Kaplan is currently in Arles where her collection of Pop Photographica is among the highlights of the annual Rencontres...
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Keep Calm and Poster On
The image is so iconic, it's been co-opted countless times, but in Swann Galleries' upcoming Vintage Posters auction we have the original: A 1939 Keep Calm and Carry On poster.When Britain formally...
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"The Great War" in Posters
Summer 2014 marks the centennial of the beginning World War I, known at the time as The Great War, the events of which began with the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria on June 28,...
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Buffalo Bill Cody: Scout & Showman
Lot 267: P. Frenzeny's portrait of the Wild West hero dates from 1888Swann's August 6 auction of Vintage Posters features a trio of posters promoting Buffalo Bill, which date from 1888 to 1908. Paul...
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The Richard A Long Collection of African-American Art Comes to Swann
Beauford Delaney's pastel Portrait of Richard A. Long is among the highlights of Long's collection.On October 9, as part of our Fall African-American Fine Art auction, Swann will offer the collection...
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Summers on the Vineyard
Lois Mailou Jones's oil on canvas, Monday at Menemsha, 1943, brought $25,000 in our June 10, 2014 auction Martha’s Vineyard, an affluent summer colony located on an island south of Cape Cod, has long...
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