Contemporary Art
Auction Debuts, Results & Records
Accepting Quality Consignments
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David Hockney, The Artist and Model, etching, 1974. Sold May 11, 2017 for $52,500. |
Roy Lichtenstein, Sweet Dreams, Baby!, color screenprint, 1965. Sold May 12, 2016 for $125,000. |
| The Contemporary Art department at Swann Galleries offers works by modern icons as well as by international and emerging artists. Our biannual sales feature prints, drawings, sculptures and paintings from all of the major movements of the last 50 years, including Pop Art, Minimalism, Abstract Expressionism and Conceptualism. |
Brice Marden, Cold Mountain Series, Zen Studies 2, etching and aquatint, 1991. Sold November 15, 2016 for $60,000.
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Top sales include Ellsworth Kelly's Milkweed for $125,000 in November 2016; Roy Lichtenstein's Sweet Dreams, Baby! for $125,000 in May 2016; and Maqbool Fida Husain’s Untitled (Horse) for $144,000 in May 2013. We have also set numerous records for prints by Chuck Close, David Hockney, Brice Marden, Julian Opie, Wayne Thiebaud, Cy Twombly and David Wojnarowicz. We accept quality consignments of works by artists such as Helen Frankenthaler, Jasper Johns, Joan Mitchell and Andy Warhol, as well as from new and mid-career artists. |
Ellsworth Kelly, Milkweed, pencil, 1969. Sold November 15, 2016 for $125,000. |
Robert Longo, Study of the Capitol, charcoal and ink on vellum, 2012. Sold November 12, 2014 for $60,000.
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This is an archived page. Contact a specialist in the Contemporary Art department for more information on any of these items or to consign quality works. |
