September 25, 2024Sarah McMillanOld Master Through Modern Prints Auction Highlights: Old Master Through Modern Prints — October 17, 2024 Read more about Auction Highlights: Old Master Through Modern Prints — October 17, 2024 Swann continues its tradition of presenting a premiere selection of important prints in our October 17 auction of Old Master through Modern Prints.
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 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 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 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 New Record for a Print by Louis Lozowick in November 2020 Old Master Through Modern Sale November 17, 2020 Old Master Through Modern Prints New Record for a Print by Louis Lozowick in November 2020 Old Master Through Modern Sale Our Thursday, November 12 sale of Old Master Through Modern Prints brought in “a strong turnout of new buyers and bidding was aggressive for modern American prints and many other…
Read more about Old Master Through Modern Prints April 23, 2020 Prints & Drawings Old Master Through Modern Prints With the largest selection of old master prints to be found at auction stateside, this sale offers an array of fine works, notably special section dedicated to fine old master prints and drawings from the Collection of Matthew Rutenberg. Nineteenth-century works include Mary Cassatt and James Whistler, and Modernists are represented by Erich Heckel, Pablo Picasso, Joan Miró, Jacques Villon.
Read more about Modern American & European Printmakers Lead Winter-Spring 2020 19th & 20th Century Prints & Drawings Sale March 9, 2020 19th & 20th Century Prints & Drawings Modern American & European Printmakers Lead Winter-Spring 2020 19th & 20th Century Prints & Drawings Sale Our Thursday, March 5, 2020 sale of 19th & 20th Century Prints & Drawings saw success: “With more internet bidding, particularly via the Swann App, than any previous sale in the 19th & 20th Century Prints & Drawings category at Swann, with action from across the United States, Europe and Asia, and nearly 20% of buyers new to Swann. The most robust sections of the auction were the American prints and modern European prints and drawings,” noted Todd Weyman, the house’s director of prints and drawings.
Read more about Rembrandt Etching of Pieter Haaring Brings a New Record for the Print November 5, 2019 Prints & Drawings Rembrandt Etching of Pieter Haaring Brings a New Record for the Print With an offering from the past five centuries, our October 29, 2019 sale of Old Master Through Modern Prints brought collectors exceptional works from key artists and included Rembrandt etchings from the John Villarino Collection.
Read more about Fall 2019: Old Master Through Modern Prints October 2, 2019 Prints & Drawings Fall 2019: Old Master Through Modern Prints Old Master works include early tour-de-force impressions by Francisco José de Goya, Albrecht Dürer, Pieter Bruegel, Antonio da Canal, Il Canaletto and Giovanni B. Piranesi. Further highlights in the art of printmaking from the nineteenth through the twentieth century include works by European and American masters Thomas Hart Benton, Marc Chagall, Salvador Dalí, Martin Lewis and Henri Matisse.
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 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 Records & Results: Old Master Through Modern Prints November 5, 2018 Prints & Drawings Records & Results: Old Master Through Modern Prints Picasso Tops Old Master Through Modern Prints Auction at Swann Scarce Rembrandt Etching Draws Major Interest Our sale of Old Master Through Modern Prints opened with lively bidding in…
Read more about A Look Inside the Catalogue: 19th & 20th Century Prints & Drawings July 30, 2018 Prints & Drawings A Look Inside the Catalogue: 19th & 20th Century Prints & Drawings At Auction September 20 Complete Catalogue Twentieth Century The twentieth-century section boasts a number of exquisite original works by modern masters such as Georges Braque and Lyonel Feininger. Marc Chagall’s luminous…
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 Records & Results: Old Master Through Modern Prints November 4, 2017 Prints & Drawings Records & Results: Old Master Through Modern Prints A new auction record for any print by American master Edward Hopper was established at our auction of Old Master Through Modern Prints on November 2. The extremely rare etching The…
Read more about Records & Results: Old Master Through Modern Prints May 4, 2017 Prints & Drawings Records & Results: Old Master Through Modern Prints On Tuesday, May 2, we offered Old Master Through Modern Prints, with highlights from as long ago as 1495 and as recent as 1959. The top lot of the…
Read more about A Fleeting Moment: Edward Hopper’s Evening Wind April 4, 2014 American Art A Fleeting Moment: Edward Hopper’s Evening Wind Edward Hopper was born in Nyack, New York, just north of New York City. After briefly studying at the Correspondence School of Illustrating, he attended the New York School of…
Read more about Scenes of the City: Prints, Drawings & Paintings of New York August 23, 2010 19th & 20th Century Prints & Drawings Scenes of the City: Prints, Drawings & Paintings of New York Scenes of the City: Prints, Drawings & Paintings of New York is an important collection of some of the finest and most significant examples of 19th and 20th century New…