March 20, 2024Todd WeymanOld Master Through Modern Prints Auction Highlights: Old Master Through Modern Prints — April 18, 2024 Read more about 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: 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.
Read more about Auction Highlights: Contemporary Art — November 16, 2023 October 25, 2023 Contemporary Art Auction Highlights: Contemporary Art — November 16, 2023 Swann’s Contemporary Art auction on November 16 spans the last fifty-plus years of artistic creativity, encompassing mid-century Abstract Expressionism to the present day, with compelling examples in all media, including painting,…
Read more about Auction Highlights: Old Master Through Modern Prints — November 2, 2023 October 11, 2023 Old Master Through Modern Prints Auction Highlights: Old Master Through Modern Prints — November 2, 2023 Old Master Prints The November 2, 2023, auction begins with a selection of classic prints by old master artists from Albrecht Dürer to Rembrandt van Rijn and Giovanni B. Piranesi…
Read more about American Art: Featuring Works From the Estate of Will Barnet — September 21, 2023 Auction Highlights August 29, 2023 American Art American Art: Featuring Works From the Estate of Will Barnet — September 21, 2023 Auction Highlights Our annual American Art sale leads off the Fall auction season at Swann with a panorama of works in all media, including paintings, sculpture, watercolors and drawings, spanning the nineteenth-…
Read more about Art from the Collection of Norman Dolph May 30, 2023 Contemporary Art Art from the Collection of Norman Dolph The date was mid-April 1966 and Norman Dolph sat at the soundboard at the ramshackle Scepter Studios on West 54th Street in Manhattan, recording songs by a quartet that included musicians Lou Reed,…
Read more about Contemporary Art: Featuring the Collection of Norman Dolph — June 8, 2023 Auction Highlights May 16, 2023 Contemporary Art Contemporary Art: Featuring the Collection of Norman Dolph — June 8, 2023 Auction Highlights Our spring auction of Contemporary Art will showcase a variety of exceptional works in all media including painting, sculpture, drawing and limited editions ranging from mid-20th century Abstract Expressionism through…
Read more about 19th & 20th Century Art: Featuring Dada & Surrealism — March 23, 2023 Auction Highlights February 24, 2023 19th & 20th Century Prints & Drawings 19th & 20th Century Art: Featuring Dada & Surrealism — March 23, 2023 Auction Highlights Dada & Surrealism We are especially excited for the current iteration of our annual Nineteenth & Twentieth Century Art auction offering a selection of 150 lots devoted to modern artists…
Read more about Artist Profile: M.C. Escher October 31, 2022 Old Master Through Modern Prints Artist Profile: M.C. Escher Swann prints and drawings director, Todd Weyman, provides an overview of op-artist M.C. Escher’s career Maurits Cornelis Escher, more commonly known as just M.C. Escher (1898-1972), was born in Leeuwarden,…
Read more about Contemporary Art: November 17, 2022 Auction Highlights October 26, 2022 Contemporary Art Contemporary Art: November 17, 2022 Auction Highlights This fall’s Contemporary Art auction will offer an exciting array of works in all media, including painting, sculpture, drawing and limited editions, spanning the last half century and more, with…
Read more about Old Master Through Modern Prints: November 3, 2022 Auction Highlights October 12, 2022 Old Master Through Modern Prints Old Master Through Modern Prints: November 3, 2022 Auction Highlights This season’s installment of our semiannual auction of fine Old Master through Modern Prints boasts several stellar private collections, each appearing at auction for the first time, including a European…
Read more about American Art: September 22, 2022 Auction Highlights August 26, 2022 American Art American Art: September 22, 2022 Auction Highlights Our annual American Art sale leads off the Fall auction season at Swann with panache and a smorgasbord of offerings, from the artists of the Hudson River school, including Thomas…
Read more about Edward Hopper & His Contemporaries: Making a Modern American Art — June 30, 2022 Auction Highlights May 20, 2022 Prints & Drawings Edward Hopper & His Contemporaries: Making a Modern American Art — June 30, 2022 Auction Highlights Tracing the development of modern American art during the early 20th century, this curated and thematic sale will center on a private collection of Edward Hopper drawings created at the…
Read more about Contemporary Art: May 12, 2022 Auction Highlights April 14, 2022 Contemporary Art Contemporary Art: May 12, 2022 Auction Highlights Featuring Art from the Collection of the late Francis V. O’Connor, Co-editor of the Jackson Pollock Catalogue Raisonné Our spring auction of Contemporary Art features significant works ranging from the mid-twentieth…
Read more about A Newly-Discovered Drawing by Rembrandt Makes its Debut in Old Master through Modern Prints Auction April 13, 2022 Old Master Through Modern Prints A Newly-Discovered Drawing by Rembrandt Makes its Debut in Old Master through Modern Prints Auction Nestled among the outstanding selection of fine Rembrandt etchings in the Old Master through Modern Prints auction this season, is a gem-like drawing, newly-discovered and recently attributed to Rembrandt van Rijn himself, made as he began his storied artistic career in Amsterdam.
Read more about Old Master Through Modern Prints: April 28, 2022 Auction Highlights March 21, 2022 Old Master Through Modern Prints Old Master Through Modern Prints: April 28, 2022 Auction Highlights The spring auction of Old Master Through Modern Prints features iconic images from the late-fifteenth century through the mid-twentieth century. Top lots include Pablo Picasso’s chef d’oeuvre etching and drypoint Le Repas…
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 Master Printmakers: Picasso Working With the Crommelyncks April 30, 2021 Old Master Through Modern Prints Master Printmakers: Picasso Working With the Crommelyncks The following collection of scarce, early proofs by Pablo Picasso, as well as a maquette for an original ceramic, was painstakingly built by a California connoisseur and is now appearing at auction…
Read more about The Story of the Ismar Littmann Family Collection February 14, 2019 19th & 20th Century Prints & Drawings The Story of the Ismar Littmann Family Collection Our March 5 sale of 19th & 20th Century Prints & Drawings will feature Property from the Ismar Littmann Family Collection of German Expressionism and European Avant-Garde. Director of Prints…