August 14, 2024Corey SerrantLGBTQ+ Art, Material Culture & History Stompers Gallery & Its Leather Fetish Art Lineage Read more about 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…
Read more about Artist Profile: Lili Elbe August 8, 2024 LGBTQ+ Art, Material Culture & History 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…
Read more about New York Through Photographs August 8, 2024 Photographs & Photobooks 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…
Read more about Auction Highlights: American Art — September 19, 2024 August 7, 2024 American Art Auction Highlights: American Art — September 19, 2024 This season-opening American Art auction begins with meditative landscapes from the nineteenth century, and moves to the stormy coasts of New England.
Read more about The Danish Girl and the Erotic Art of Gerda Wegener July 29, 2024 Art Press & Illustrated Books The Danish Girl and the Erotic Art of Gerda Wegener Who was Gerda Wegener? Since its release, David Ebershoff’s debut novel The Danish Girl and its subsequent 2015 film adaptation have reintroduced artist couple Gerda Wegener and Lili Elbe to…
Read more about A Look at Swann Galleries’ Staff Art Show July 24, 2024 Swann A Look at Swann Galleries’ Staff Art Show The Swann Staff Art Show, which was on display from July 11 to 18, featured selected artworks in various media from Swann’s talented staff. Take a look at our show…
Read more about Auction Highlights: LGBTQ+ Art, Material Culture & History — August 22, 2024 July 17, 2024 LGBTQ+ Art, Material Culture & History Auction Highlights: LGBTQ+ Art, Material Culture & History — August 22, 2024 Swann Galleries is excited to present the sixth iteration of the LGBTQ+ Art, Material Culture & History. The sale will take place on Thursday, August 22, and will feature an exciting selection of fine art, illustration, photography, manuscripts & archives from the expansive range of the LGBTQ+ community.
Read more about This Season’s Successes: Winter-Spring 2024 Auctions in Review July 15, 2024 19th & 20th Century Literature This Season’s Successes: Winter-Spring 2024 Auctions in Review In the 2024 Winter-Spring season, Swann Galleries continued to provide high-quality auctions of unusual and rare material. Several single-owner collections were featured, including Illustration Art: Featuring Highlights from the Collection…
Read more about Records & Results: Printed & Manuscript Americana — June 2024 July 2, 2024 Printed & Manuscript Americana Records & Results: Printed & Manuscript Americana — June 2024 Swann closed out June 2024 with a standout Printed & Manuscript Americana sale on Thursday, June 27. The auction earned $1 million against a $647,100 to $970,700 pre-sale estimate and…
Read more about Auction Highlights: Vintage Posters — August 8, 2024 June 28, 2024 Vintage Posters Auction Highlights: Vintage Posters — August 8, 2024 Our August Vintage Poster auction encompasses a broad array of genres, spanning the 19th-21st centuries, and from countries around the globe.
Read more about Collecting Aviation History June 18, 2024 Books & Manuscripts Collecting Aviation History As a specialized auction house, Swann has the unique ability to connect collectors with their specific interests. This is especially true for aviation collectors; the auctions from our books and…
Read more about Reintroducing Swann’s Fine Art Department June 12, 2024 Fine Art Reintroducing Swann’s Fine Art Department Swann Galleries announced on Tuesday, May 14, 2024, the reorganization of their fine art offerings under the leadership of Nigel Freeman. This change comes with the news of the retirement…
Read more about Collectors on Collecting: Jules Feiffer on the Artists and Works from His Collection June 11, 2024 Illustration Art Collectors on Collecting: Jules Feiffer on the Artists and Works from His Collection Jules Feiffer’s career spans decades, producing a remarkable range of projects and generating numerous awards and honors. His contributions to the field of comics since his start in the late…
Read more about Auction Highlights: Printed & Manuscript Americana — June 27, 2024 June 10, 2024 Printed & Manuscript Americana Auction Highlights: Printed & Manuscript Americana — June 27, 2024 Our June 27 Americana sale stretches across the ages from the 1500s to the 1980s. The age of early exploration is represented by a lovely 1590 De Bry Latin printing…
Read more about Auction Highlights: Autographs — June 25, 2024 June 6, 2024 Autographs Auction Highlights: Autographs — June 25, 2024 Highlights from Swann’s June 25 timed Autographs Sale.
Read more about Caleb Kiffer on a Rare Copy of ‘A Description of Sixteen New Species of North American Birds… Collected in Texas’ June 4, 2024 Maps & Atlases Caleb Kiffer on a Rare Copy of ‘A Description of Sixteen New Species of North American Birds… Collected in Texas’ Featured in the June 13, 2024, auction of Maps & Atlases, Natural History & Color Plate Books is Lot 166: Jacob Post Giraud, Jr. & Nathaniel Currier’s A Description of…
Read more about A Toast to Todd Weyman: Our Congratulations on His Retirement June 4, 2024 Prints & Drawings A Toast to Todd Weyman: Our Congratulations on His Retirement A Note From Swann Galleries President Nicholas D. Lowry May 24, 2024 In an industry not particularly known for big changes, Swann Galleries is about to undergo the kind of…
Read more about Auction Highlights: Illustration Art, Featuring Highlights from the Collection of Jules Feiffer — June 20, 2024 May 28, 2024 Illustration Art Auction Highlights: Illustration Art, Featuring Highlights from the Collection of Jules Feiffer — June 20, 2024 Our Spring 2024 Illustration Art sale will showcase an exceptional selection of original artworks spanning various media, including magazines, books, cartoons, postcards, posters, costume and scenic design, and animation.
Read more about Meagan Gandolfo on Pop Art Printmakers May 22, 2024 Contemporary Art Meagan Gandolfo on Pop Art Printmakers Meagan Gandolfo discusses the emergence of vibrant print studios across the United States, coinciding with the rise of Abstract and Pop art movements, reshaping the landscape of contemporary fine art.
Read more about Auction Highlights: Maps & Atlases, Natural History & Color Plate Books — June 13, 2024 May 17, 2024 Maps & Atlases Auction Highlights: Maps & Atlases, Natural History & Color Plate Books — June 13, 2024 This sale is set to include a wide range of historically important and interesting material for map, atlas, natural history and color-plate book collectors across many different categories.
Read more about Specialist Pick: Devon Eastland on Wuthering Heights vs. David Copperfield May 15, 2024 Books & Manuscripts Specialist Pick: Devon Eastland on Wuthering Heights vs. David Copperfield Devon Eastland, specialist for our Focus on Women auction, touches on the special nature of Emily Brontë’s Wuthering Heights and the differences between Brontë’s female characters and those in Charles Dickens’s David Copperfield.
Read more about Auction Highlights: Contemporary Art — June 6, 2024 May 10, 2024 Contemporary Art Auction Highlights: Contemporary Art — June 6, 2024 Swann’s June 6 Contemporary Art auction will feature an array of abstract expressionist work, Pop Art, 21st Century artists and more.
Read more about Collecting Vintage Tennis Posters May 8, 2024 Vintage Posters Collecting Vintage Tennis Posters There are several notable reasons why people collect tennis posters. First and foremost, collectors of these pieces are driven by their love of the game. Within that passion, there are more…
Read more about Swann Salon: A Conversation on Vintage Tennis Posters May 7, 2024 Vintage Posters Swann Salon: A Conversation on Vintage Tennis Posters Swann President and Vintage Posters specialist Nicholas D. Lowry is joined by Nicole Markham, curator at the Museum at the International Tennis Hall of Fame; Simeon Lipman, Antiques Roadshow Appraiser…
Read more about The Woman’s Eye: Seven Women Photographers to Know May 6, 2024 Photographs & Photobooks 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 camera to record…
Read more about Auction Highlights: Focus on Women — May 23, 2024 April 26, 2024 Fine Books & Manuscripts Auction Highlights: Focus on Women — May 23, 2024 Swann’s May 23 auction, Focus on Women
Read more about Surrealist Centennial: 100 Years of the Surrealist Manifesto April 24, 2024 Modern & Post-War Art 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.…
Read more about Auction Highlights: Fine Photographs — May 16, 2024 April 23, 2024 Photographs & Photobooks Auction Highlights: Fine Photographs — May 16, 2024 Swann’s May 16 auction of Fine Photographs is headlines by two iconic female photographers.
Read more about Collecting Vintage Olympic Posters April 22, 2024 Vintage Posters 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 chose two) to represent the games. Those images became indelibly connected to the games they represented.
Read more about Essential Modern & Post-War Art Terms & Movements — Part II April 22, 2024 Modern & Post-War Art Essential Modern & Post-War Art Terms & Movements — Part II Harold Porcher’s Illustrated Glossary of Modern & Post-War Movements II The post-war era of art, as an auction category, is simply a construct used to differentiate art movements occurring after…
Read more about Records & Results: Fine Books — April 11, 2024 April 16, 2024 Uncategorized 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…
Read more about Auction Highlights: Tennis & Sports Posters: Collection of the Schwartz Family & Tennis Corporation of America April 15, 2024 Vintage Posters Auction Highlights: Tennis & Sports Posters: Collection of the Schwartz Family & Tennis Corporation of America Swann’s May poster auction offers the world’s most preeminent private tennis and sport collection.
Read more about Records & Results: African American Art — April 4, 2024 April 11, 2024 African American Art 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…
Read more about A Brief Publishing History of Don Quixote April 3, 2024 Books & Manuscripts 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…
Read more about 8 Works to Collect For Spring April 2, 2024 African American Art 8 Works to Collect For Spring In celebration of the changing of the seasons we’re sharing a selection of works coming up for auction this month at Swann that are sure to inspire.
Read more about Records & Results: Printed & Manuscript African Americana — March 21, 2024 March 27, 2024 Printed & Manuscript African Americana 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…
Read more about The Art of the Harlem Renaissance, in Print and Plaster March 25, 2024 African American Art 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…
Read more about Auction Highlights: Modern & Post-War Art — May 2, 2024 March 21, 2024 Modern & Post-War Art Auction Highlights: Modern & Post-War Art — May 2, 2024 Highlights from the upcoming spring Modern & Post-War Art Sale.
Read more about Auction Highlights: Old Master Through Modern Prints — April 18, 2024 March 20, 2024 Old Master Through Modern Prints Auction Highlights: Old Master Through Modern Prints — April 18, 2024 A compelling selection of scarce and desirable prints includes woodcuts, engravings, etchings, lithographs, and screenprints and spans the late fifteenth century through the 1900s.
Read more about Auction Highlights: Fine Books — April 11, 2024 March 15, 2024 Fine Books & Manuscripts 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 more.
Read more about Art for Life: A Benefit for the Rush Philanthropic Arts Foundation — April 4 March 13, 2024 African American Art Art for Life: A Benefit for the Rush Philanthropic 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…
Read more about 5 European Expressionist Artists to Know March 12, 2024 19th & 20th Century Prints & Drawings 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…
Read more about Auction Highlights: African American Art — April 4, 2024 March 6, 2024 African American Art Auction Highlights: African American Art — April 4, 2024 This season’s African American Art auction features an array of Harlem Renaissance pieces, post-war figurative art, and contemporary art.
Read more about Listen to Jackie Robinson Speaking at an Ohio Civil Rights Rally in 1964 March 5, 2024 Printed & Manuscript African Americana Listen to Jackie Robinson Speaking at an Ohio Civil Rights Rally in 1964 This civil rights rally was held in Columbus, OH, a few months after the March on Washington and just as the congressional fight for the Civil Rights Act approached the…
Read more about Artist Profile: Edward McKnight Kauffer February 26, 2024 Vintage Posters Artist Profile: Edward McKnight Kauffer To look at the graphic design work of Edward McKnight Kauffer is to experience a master craftsman helping to propel modernism into the mainstream. He achieved the height of his creativity in the decades after World War I, bringing his creative, modern aesthetic to a fast-paced world that was eager to embrace his exciting new visual creations.
Read more about Gilded by Association: Autographs in the March 7, 2024 Auction February 26, 2024 Autographs Gilded by Association: Autographs in the March 7, 2024 Auction Autographs provide the collector with a number of joys, one of which is their ability to bring you closer to people in another time and place. Of course, every autograph…
Read more about Records & Results: The Subculture Sale — February 8, 2024 February 14, 2024 Vintage Posters Records & Results: The Subculture Sale — February 8, 2024 “The Subculture Sale was an exciting foray into relatively new territory for Swann Galleries, not focusing on works from previous centuries, but, on the personally memorable. Among the scores of…
Read more about Auction Highlights: Printed & Manuscript African Americana — March 21, 2024 February 12, 2024 Printed & Manuscript African Americana Auction Highlights: Printed & Manuscript African Americana — March 21, 2024 One of our largest African Americana auctions to date includes important documentation of the abolition movement, catalogues and posters for exhibits by leading Black artists, previously unseen Black Panther material, and material on Black-owned businesses.
Read more about Auction Highlights: Autographs — March 7, 2024 February 7, 2024 Autographs Auction Highlights: Autographs — March 7, 2024 This auction will contain property from the Forbes Collection, reflecting a keen interest in American history, world leaders, American entertainers between the 1930s and 1960s, and writers.
Read more about Auction Highlights: 19th & 20th Century Art — March 14, 2024 February 6, 2024 19th & 20th Century Prints & Drawings Auction Highlights: 19th & 20th Century Art — March 14, 2024 An array of fine art bridges the seasons and centuries with nineteenth-century and Modern paintings, drawings and prints, as well as a section devoted to Latin American modernists.