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September 13, 2019
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Specializing in rare books, fine art and everything in between.
President & principal auctioneer: @nicholowry

Our Vintage Posters begins closing tomorrow, Augus

Our Vintage Posters begins closing tomorrow, August 8, at 12 PM ET!

Visit the link in our bio to bid.

Nicholas D. Lowry on Vintage Magic Posters Aucti

Nicholas D. Lowry on Vintage Magic Posters

Auction closing August 8 beginning at 12:00 PM ET

Since its release, David Ebershoff’s debut novel

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 a new generation of twentieth-century illustration appreciators. Born in Hammelev, Denmark, in 1886, Wegener’s fashion and erotica illustrations defied the conventional norms of gender and sexuality prevalent in her era. To learn more about Wegener and her artistic practice visit the link in our bio. ⁠
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Pictured here is Gerda Wegener"s "Two Women in a Window," watercolor, chalk and pencil, circa 1920. Featured in our March 2023 19th & 20th Century Art sale.

Pictured here is Claude Clark's "Drafting," circa

Pictured here is Claude Clark's "Drafting," circa 1940-41. Sold in our January 2024 Artists of the WPA auction for $17,500⁠
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This striking modernist painting and very scarce image of an African-American architect or architectural student is an excellent example of the early oil painting of Claude Clark. It was painted shortly after the artist was a student at The Pennsylvania School of Industrial Arts. In 1935, Clark won a four-year scholarship to study at the commercial art school. By his third year, Clark won the painting prize and had adopted his palette knife technique. From 1939-1942, Claude Clark was also a colleague of Dox Thrash and Raymond Steth in the Philadelphia Fine Print Workshop and the WPA workshop, where he worked in lithography and carborundum etching. In 1939, Clark was accepted to the Barnes Foundation for a fellowship study. In 1944, his painting Cutting Pattern was only the second work by an African-American artist accepted into the Barnes Foundation's permanent collection after Horace Pippin. ⁠
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Today, Clark's paintings are found in numerous museum collections, including the David C. Driskell Center, the University of Maryland, the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, the Philadelphia Museum of Art, and the Smithsonian Museum of American Art.⁠

LGBTQ+ Art, Material Culture & History is at aucti

LGBTQ+ Art, Material Culture & History is at auction August 22. Previewing Saturday, August 17, and Monday August 19, through Wednesday, August 21 — 12PM to 5PM⁠
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Browse the complete catalogue and register to bid at the link in our bio. ⁠

Our Vintage Poster auction closes in one week! Thi

Our Vintage Poster auction closes in one week! This August 8 sale contains posters of many genres, including World War I and II propaganda, Art Nouveau, Magic, Circus, Food and drink, Mather Work Incentive, Sports, Transportation, Summer Resort and travel, and many more. ⁠
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The exhibition is open from Monday, August 5, through Wednesday, August 7 — 12-5 PM. Register to bid now!⁠
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1) Adolphe Mouron Cassandre, "Grand - Sport La Casquette," 1925.⁠
2) Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, "Ambassadeurs / Aristide Bruant," 1892.⁠
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TIMED AUCTION | This summer’s Vintage Posters au

TIMED AUCTION | This summer’s Vintage Posters auction at Swann encompasses a broad array of genres, spanning the nineteenth through twenty-first centuries and from countries around the globe. ⁠
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Timed bidding is open now through August 8 and begins closing at 12 PM ET. Previewing Saturday, August 3, and Monday, August 5, through Wednesday, August 7 — 12 PM - 5 PM⁠
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Browse the complete catalogue and register to bid at the link in our bio.

Our sixth annual LGBTQ+ Art, Material Culture & Hi

Our sixth annual LGBTQ+ Art, Material Culture & History auction is scheduled to take place on Thursday, August 22, and will feature an exciting selection of fine art, illustration, posters, ephemera, photography, manuscripts and archives from the expansive range of the LGBTQ+ community. ⁠
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Pictured above: Lyle Ashton Harris, Untitled (Renee’s Back), large-format Polaroid, 1998-99.

In celebration of Ernest Hemingway’s birthday (a

In celebration of Ernest Hemingway’s birthday (albeit belated), we are proud to present a sneak peek of an exciting find, a photo album compiled by a fellow Red Cross volunteer, Percy D. Johnson, who served in the Ambulance Service with Hemingway during the First World War. It contains unpublished images of Hemingway and his fellow volunteers from the time they shipped overseas, through their service in Italy, and includes an image of the injured Papa in his Milan hospital bed. This album, brought to light for the first time, will be offered in our upcoming October 2024 Fine Books Sale. Happy Birthday Ernest!

Auctions in Review⁠ In the 2024 Winter-Spring se

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 of Jules Feiffer, Tennis & Sports Posters: Collection of the Schwartz Family & Tennis Corporation of America, and An American Century: The Collection of Dr. James & Debra Pearl & Fine Photographs.⁠
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We bid farewell to our longtime Prints & Drawings director Todd Weyman, and ushered in a new era for our restructured Fine Art Department. Take a look at some of this season’s highlights at the link in our bio!

The top lot and the highlight of our June 27 Print

The top lot and the highlight of our June 27 Printed & Manuscript Americana sale: an 1830 First Edition Book of Mormon.⁠
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Sold to a dealer for $185,000, this rare first edition broke the previous auction record—the Orson Pratt copy was sold by Swann in 2007 for $180,000. This record-breaking sale is also the fourth-highest price ever realized for an Americana lot at Swann.⁠
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Swann has been the leading auction house for Mormon books, selling 13 copies of the first edition over the past two decades, and prices have increased dramatically just in the past three years.

The Swann Staff Art Show opens today! Join us from

The Swann Staff Art Show opens today! Join us from 5 to 7 PM for a Swann Salon celebrating the works of our incredible staff. ⁠

Cindy Sherman's iconic Untitled Film Stills is a c $Cindy Sherman's iconic Untitled Film Stills is a collection of 70 black-and-white photographs in which the photographer herself poses as an actress portraying different archetypal female film characters. ⁠ ⁠ Sherman's gaze is fixed away from the viewer in each of the photographs in her series, adding elements of ambiguity and voyeurism to her work, prompting viewers to consider how women may be perceived in mass media and culture. ⁠ ⁠ This 1979 silver print photograph, Untitled Film Still #52, was the highlight of our May 16 Fine Photographs sale, sold \ for $125,000.$

The Shelf Sale is back on Thursday, July 18. Previ

The Shelf Sale is back on Thursday, July 18. Previewing Monday, July 15 through Wednesday, July 17 — 12PM to 5PM⁠
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Learn more at the link in our bio.

Our upcoming Vintage Poster Sale on August 8 offer

Our upcoming Vintage Poster Sale on August 8 offers a wide range of posters from across the globe spanning the nineteenth to twenty-first centuries. Featured genres include travel posters, rare and collectible posters for international events such as the Exposition Universelle and the Exposition de Charleroi, and an assortment of entertainment posters advertising extravaganzas such as circuses and magic shows. ⁠
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Pictured above: (Left) Leonetto Cappiello, Absinthe Gempp Pernod, 1903. (Right) William H. Bradley, Victor Bicycles / Overman Wheel Co., 1895.

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