May 10, 2024Todd WeymanContemporary Art Auction Highlights: Contemporary Art — June 6, 2024 Read more about 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 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 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 Black Abstract Artists: Exploring Innovative Techniques May 31, 2022 African American Art Black Abstract Artists: Exploring Innovative Techniques Abstract Artists From Alma Thomas to Jack Whitten Here we explore Black artists who have expanded abstract techniques that showcase unique aesthetics while examining current events, visually composing perceptive senses…
Read more about Contemporary Art: June 10, 2021 Auction Highlights May 20, 2021 Contemporary Art Contemporary Art: June 10, 2021 Auction Highlights What You Need to Know on Auction Day This auction will be held live and conducted remotely. There will not be bidding in the room, though we accept order bids,…
Read more about Happening November 30: Artists That Went Against The Grain November 20, 2020 Modern & Post-War Art Happening November 30: Artists That Went Against The Grain Starting with H.C. Westermann in Chicago and winding its way through other artists that made a practice of going against the grain, Swann Director of Modern & Post-War Art Harold Porcher will be in conversation with scholar Antonia Pocock, discussing Westermann, Hedda Sterne, Robert Therrien, Allan Kaprow, and Claes Oldenburg.
Read more about Contemporary Art: November 2020 Highlights October 29, 2020 Contemporary Art Contemporary Art: November 2020 Highlights Featuring works by Louise Nevelson from the collection of Albert Argentieri, a friend of the artist, as well as works from the collection of Stephen Poleskie, founder of Chiron Press, New York. Other artists featured include Dorothea Rockburne, Alex Katz and Roy Lichtenstein.
Read more about Abstract Art: 1940s Through Now June 24, 2020 Contemporary Art Abstract Art: 1940s Through Now Abstract forms have in many ways always been part of artistic composition, and the early twentieth century saw a push towards works rendered solely through colors and forms following centuries of a general yearning…
Read more about Cultural Cross-Currents: The Indian Space Painters April 8, 2020 Modern & Post-War Art Cultural Cross-Currents: The Indian Space Painters The Indian Space Painters may be the modern artists most closely associated with Native American art. In Haida and Tlingit art, these American modernists found anthropomorphic interlocking subject matter that lent itself to the Surrealist abstraction they were already emulating in their own paintings.
Read more about Exhibition Guide: Museums Showing 9th Street Women… & Beyond November 18, 2019 Contemporary Art Exhibition Guide: Museums Showing 9th Street Women… & Beyond Your exhibition guide to shows featuring the women of the Abstract Expressionist movement and beyond.
Read more about Fall 2019: Contemporary Art October 16, 2019 Contemporary Art Fall 2019: Contemporary Art Anchoring this auction is a special selection of works by women of the New York Abstract Expressionist school, notably Helen Frankenthaler, Joan Mitchell and Lee Krasner, in a timely celebration of the era and their overlooked contributions to the first specifically American movement to achieve international influence.
Read more about Artist Profile: Norman Lewis August 30, 2019 African American Art Artist Profile: Norman Lewis Norman Lewis was an Abstract Expressionist painter associated with The Irascibles who developed as a painter as the New York Modern Art scene grew. Here we discuss Lewis’s rise from the margins to art market center.
Read more about From Abstract Expressionists to Color Field Painters—African-American Fine Art August 26, 2019 African American Art From Abstract Expressionists to Color Field Painters—African-American Fine Art Abstraction features heavily in our October 2019 sale of African-American Fine Art, including first-generation abstract expressionist Norman Lewis, alongside artists Sam Gilliam and Kenneth Victor Young of the Washington Color School.
Read more about Records & Results: Contemporary Art June 3, 2019 Contemporary Art Records & Results: Contemporary Art Print Record for Franz Kline in Swann Contemporary Our May 16 sale of Contemporary Art brought a record price for a Franz Kline print and saw an 81% sell-through…
Read more about Upcoming Highlights: Contemporary Art March 12, 2019 Contemporary Art Upcoming Highlights: Contemporary Art At Auction May 16 Complete Catalogue David Hockney’s Red Celia, a portrait of designer Celia Birtwell, for which Hockney looked to Picasso and Matisse for inspiration, is among the highlights,…
Read more about A Look Inside the Catalogue: Contemporary Art October 18, 2018 Contemporary Art A Look Inside the Catalogue: Contemporary Art At Auction November 15 Complete Catalogue Original Works This sale is notable for its strong selection of original works on paper, including an abstract gouache by Sonia Delaunay, as…
Read more about Works from Will Barnet’s Estate at Auction November 1, 2017 Prints & Drawings Works from Will Barnet’s Estate at Auction American artist Will Barnet is known for his intimate, foreshortened views of women with cats, but his oeuvre, spanning nearly a century, reveals a diverse and multifaceted artist who transcended…
Read more about Alma Thomas’s Journey to Abstraction September 27, 2017 African American Art Alma Thomas’s Journey to Abstraction Alma Thomas is renowned for her brightly colored abstract works that seem to dance across canvas and paper, but how did she develop that iconic style? Two paintings that reveal…
Read more about East Hampton Artists May 10, 2017 Contemporary Art East Hampton Artists The community of East Hampton has long been known as an avant-garde artist enclave. Our May 11 auction of Contemporary Art features a century’s worth of output by artists who…
Read more about Notes from the Catalogue: Robert Motherwell’s Early Surrealist Period May 2, 2017 Contemporary Art Notes from the Catalogue: Robert Motherwell’s Early Surrealist Period Notes from the catalogue of our May 11 auction of Contemporary Art. Though Motherwell is known for his integral role in the New York school of Abstract Expressionism, the…
Read more about Must-See Fall Show: Norman Lewis & Lee Krasner at the Jewish Museum September 16, 2014 African American Art Must-See Fall Show: Norman Lewis & Lee Krasner at the Jewish Museum Last week, From the Margins: Lee Krasner and Norman Lewis opened at the Jewish Museum. The exhibition combines the works of an unlikely pair: Lee Krasner, a female Jewish artist…
Read more about A Previously Unknown Norman Lewis Painting September 30, 2013 African American Art A Previously Unknown Norman Lewis Painting The image chosen for the cover of Swann’s upcoming sale Point of Departure: Postwar African-American Fine Art is a circa 1957 Untitled oil on canvas by Norman Lewis. The previously unrecorded painting was acquired…