October 25, 2014Swann CommunicationsOld Master Through Modern Prints Notes from the Catalogue: Diego Rivera’s Printmaking Career Read more about Notes from the Catalogue: Diego Rivera’s Printmaking Career Diego Rivera (1886-1957), the painter who helped establish the Mexico Mural Movement and was a leading figure in Social Realism, was born in Guanajuato in North-Central Mexico. In 1897, Rivera…
Read more about 19th & 20th Century Art: March 2021 Auction Highlights February 10, 2021 Prints & Drawings 19th & 20th Century Art: March 2021 Auction Highlights Featuring prints, drawings, paintings, sculptures by Mary Cassatt, Francis Picabia, Pablo Picasso, Wifredo Lam, Fernand Léger, Martin Lewis, Henri Matisse, Diego Rivera, Egon Schiele, Paul Signac, James A.M. Whistler, and Francisco Zúñiga.
Read more about 19th & 20th Century Prints & Drawings: Upcoming in March 2020 January 28, 2020 Prints & Drawings 19th & 20th Century Prints & Drawings: Upcoming in March 2020 Prints, paintings and drawings include examples by Jean-François Millet, Joan Miró, René Magritte, Rufino Tamayo, Diego Rivera and others.
Read more about Fall 2019: 19th & 20th Century Prints & Drawings August 2, 2019 Prints & Drawings Fall 2019: 19th & 20th Century Prints & Drawings This Prints & Drawings auction comes on September 19, 2019, and features mainstay American artists Edward Hopper, Martin Lewis, Howard Cook and George Bellows. European masters Georges Valmier, Pablo Picasso and M.C. Escher run alongside Latin American master Diego Rivera and Rufino Tamayo.
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 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 19th & 20th Century Art: March 10, 2022 Auction Highlights February 7, 2022 19th & 20th Century Prints & Drawings 19th & 20th Century Art: March 10, 2022 Auction Highlights Highlights include a recently discovered self portrait by the Italian modernist Giacomo Balla, Il disperato; Autoritratto, oil on canvas, circa 1898-1900, as well as a large drawing by Gustav Klimt…
Read more about Latin-American Modernists November 6, 2021 Modern & Post-War Art Latin-American Modernists The end of the nineteenth century brought the Machine Age. Many wonderful innovations such as electrification, the assembly line, skyscrapers, and radio broadcast made communication and travel faster, and products…
Read more about First Sale Dedicated to the Accomplishments of Women at Swann Exceeds High Estimate July 20, 2021 Focus On Women First Sale Dedicated to the Accomplishments of Women at Swann Exceeds High Estimate Early Printed Book, Archives, Vernacular and Fine Art Photography, Among other Material, Draws Interest Among Collectors The house’s inaugural Focus on Women sale on Thursday, July 15, 2021 brought $333,893…
Read more about Harold Porcher Explores Mexican Muralists & Their Impact on the WPA February 1, 2021 The Artists of the WPA Harold Porcher Explores Mexican Muralists & Their Impact on the WPA The Whitney Museum of American Art’s recent exhibition, Vida Americana: Mexican Muralists Remake American Art, 1925-1945, was a comprehensive evaluation of post-revolution art in Mexico and the powerful influence it…
Read more about Old Master Through Modern Prints: November 2020 Highlights October 19, 2020 Prints & Drawings Old Master Through Modern Prints: November 2020 Highlights At Auction November 12, 2020 The fall fine prints sale will include masters of printmaking from the sixteenth through the twentieth centuries. Highlights include woodcuts, etchings and engravings by Albrecht…
Read more about Old Master Through Modern Prints: November 2020 Highlights September 17, 2020 Old Master Through Modern Prints Old Master Through Modern Prints: November 2020 Highlights At Auction November 12, 2020 The fall fine prints sale will include masters of printmaking from the sixteenth through the twentieth centuries. Highlights include woodcuts, etchings and engravings by Albrecht…
Read more about The Studio Assistant: Louise Nevelson & Teddy Haseltine June 15, 2020 Prints & Drawings The Studio Assistant: Louise Nevelson & Teddy Haseltine Our June 25 sale of Contemporary Art features a run of prints by Louise Nevelson. Behind great artists are studio assistants equally devoted to their craft. For Nevelson one of…
Read more about Mexican Photography: Graciela Iturbide, Flor Garduño & the Influence of Manuel Álvarez Bravo May 19, 2020 Photographs & Photobooks Mexican Photography: Graciela Iturbide, Flor Garduño & the Influence of Manuel Álvarez Bravo The Whitney Museum of American Art’s exhibition Vida Americana: Mexican Muralists Remake American Art posits Mexico’s valuable artistic legacy. José Clemente Orozo, Diego Rivera and David Alfaro Siqueiros, towering artistic…
Read more about Artist Profile: Edward Weston March 4, 2020 Photographs & Photobooks Artist Profile: Edward Weston Edward Weston was a self-taught photographer who migrated to California from the midwest and began his career there as a commercial portrait photographer in Glendale. His early style was characterized by a soft-focus approach that emulated painting and was associated with a school of photography known as Pictorialism. Weston was also a member of Group f/64—a community of artist-photographers who developed a photographic vocabulary and visual style described as California Modernism. Here Daile Kaplan discusses how to identify prints by Edward and his sons Brett and Cole.
Read more about Rare Martin Lewis Etching Debuts in Fall 2019 Prints & Drawings Sale September 26, 2019 Prints & Drawings Rare Martin Lewis Etching Debuts in Fall 2019 Prints & Drawings Sale Swann Galleries opened the fall 2019 season with an exceptional sale of 19th & 20th Century Prints & Drawings featuring an auction debut for a rare early print by Martin Lewis and a record price for a print by Edvard Munch.
Read more about 2019 Spring Season in Review July 1, 2019 Swann 2019 Spring Season in Review A season of firsts. The 2019 spring auction season at Swann Galleries delivered an impressive range of sales, rife with auction premiers and record prices. We started our season off…
Read more about Records & Results: Old Master Through Modern Prints May 9, 2019 Old Master Through Modern Prints Records & Results: Old Master Through Modern Prints Zapata Sets Print Record for Diego Rivera at $45k With seven records and a standout selection of Latin American art, our sale of Old Master Through Modern Prints on Thursday, May 2 offered works by the greatest…
Read more about Notes from the Catalogue: Latin American Art April 24, 2019 Prints & Drawings Notes from the Catalogue: Latin American Art Our largest offering of Latin American prints and originals to date comes across the block in our Old Master Through Modern Prints sale May 2. Compiled into a separate catalogue,…
Read more about Upcoming Highlights: Old Master Through Modern Prints March 13, 2019 Prints & Drawings Upcoming Highlights: Old Master Through Modern Prints Featuring Latin American Art At Auction May 2 Complete Catalogue A selection of Old Master prints includes highlights from Rembrandt and Albrecht Dürer, as well as iconic engravings from the…
Read more about Records & Results: 19th & 20th Century Prints & Drawings March 15, 2018 Prints & Drawings Records & Results: 19th & 20th Century Prints & Drawings Our auction of 19th & 20th Century Prints & Drawings on March 13 offered an especially grand selection of original works by some of the greatest artists of the last…
Read more about A Look Inside the Catalogue: 19th & 20th Century Prints & Drawings January 14, 2018 Prints & Drawings A Look Inside the Catalogue: 19th & 20th Century Prints & Drawings Here’s an overview of our auction of 19th & 20th Century Prints & Drawings on March 13: Diego Rivera’s scarce lithograph El sueño (La noche de los pobres), 1932, leads a…
Read more about Records & Results: 19th & 20th Century Prints & Drawings October 4, 2017 Prints & Drawings Records & Results: 19th & 20th Century Prints & Drawings We opened our fall season with a marathon sale of 19th & 20th Century Prints & Drawings, breaking multiple records and earning more than $2.6M. The September 19 auction offered…
Read more about Mexican Revolutionary Emiliano Zapata September 8, 2017 Prints & Drawings Mexican Revolutionary Emiliano Zapata Some people made such an impact on history that we see them in multiple sales each season, across widely disparate genres. One such figure was Mexican revolutionary Emiliano Zapata, who…
Read more about Nahui Olin: Muse & Maker June 5, 2017 Art Press & Illustrated Books Nahui Olin: Muse & Maker Nahui Olin, the pseudonym of Carmen Mondragón, was a Mexican Surrealist active in the 1920s and ’30s. She hailed from the upper echelons of Mexican society, and fraternized with the…
Read more about #5WomenArtists: Deborah Rogal’s List March 26, 2018 Photographs & Photobooks #5WomenArtists: Deborah Rogal’s List We’re jumping into Women’s History Month to offer a week of #5WomenArtists, inspired by the National Museum of Women in the Arts. We asked some women of Swann to tell…