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 — April 18, 2024 March 20, 2024 Old Master Through Modern Prints 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: 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: May 11, 2023 Auction Highlights April 11, 2023 Old Master Through Modern Prints Old Master Through Modern Prints: May 11, 2023 Auction Highlights Our Old Master Through Modern Prints sale will offer impressions spanning printmaking’s more than four hundred year history, including those rarely seen at auction. Our Old Master portion of…
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 Collector’s Guide: Celebrated Artists & Their Early Works, Old Master & Modern Prints April 18, 2022 Old Master Through Modern Prints Collector’s Guide: Celebrated Artists & Their Early Works, Old Master & Modern Prints An artist’s early career is often filled with many hardships and struggles — this was true for the Old Masters of the 16th century and the Modern stalwarts breaking ground…
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 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: 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 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 Rembrandt Etchings from the John Villarino Collection October 9, 2019 Prints & Drawings Rembrandt Etchings from the John Villarino Collection Old Master Through Modern Prints At Auction October 29 Over the course of his prolific career, Rembrandt van Rijn (1606–1669) completed more than 350 etchings and cemented his reputation as…
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 2018: Year in Review December 21, 2018 Swann 2018: Year in Review A year of records, debuts and rediscovered works. As we reflect on 2018, we look back at an excellent year of auctions. In April we held our highest-grossing African-American Fine Art…
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 Swann Summer Reading List 2018 June 28, 2018 Swann Swann Summer Reading List 2018 Our Summer Reading List is back for 2018! Here’s what some of us are cracking into in the off-season. Nicholas D. Lowry, President & Principal Auctioneer Noah Charney and Ingrid…
Read more about Records & Results: Old Master Through Modern Prints May 11, 2018 Prints & Drawings Records & Results: Old Master Through Modern Prints With highlights spanning six centuries, our auction of Old Master Through Modern Prints on May 8 offered works by the greatest innovators in the field. The sale totaled more than…
Read more about Rembrandt’s Self-Portraiture in Etchings May 3, 2018 Prints & Drawings Rembrandt’s Self-Portraiture in Etchings The self portraits of Rembrandt van Rijn have been the focus of art historical examination since their creation nearly 400 years ago. Scarce examples from our May 8, 2018 auction…
Read more about A Look Inside the Catalogue: Old Master Through Modern Prints April 1, 2018 Prints & Drawings A Look Inside the Catalogue: Old Master Through Modern Prints At Auction May 8 Old Master Through Modern Prints The highlight of this wide-ranging event from our Prints & Drawings department is Tête de femme, de profil, 1905, an…
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…