January 9, 2025Nigel FreemanAfrican American Art Auction Highlights: Abstract Beauty: The Collection of Patricia Scipio-Brim — February 6, 2025 Read more about Auction Highlights: Abstract Beauty: The Collection of Patricia Scipio-Brim — February 6, 2025 Swann Galleries proudly presents 80 works honoring the legacy and enterprise of a trailblazing collector, showcasing postwar and contemporary Black art with a focus on abstraction.
Read more about Rick Stattler’s Auction Selections for Spring 2023 March 29, 2023 Books & Manuscripts Rick Stattler’s Auction Selections for Spring 2023 Spring has just about sprung, and Swann Galleries’ resident Americana specialist, and director of the house’s books and manuscripts department, is sharing a selection of lots from the 2023 auction schedule that will put you in the spirit for the season.
Read more about Historic Auction for African-American Art from the Johnson Publishing Co. January 31, 2020 African American Art Historic Auction for African-American Art from the Johnson Publishing Co. Our Thursday, January 30 sale of African-American Art from the Johnson Publishing Company was an all-around success. The packed auction room saw all 87 lots find buyers, bringing $2.9 million—over twice the high-estimate for the auction—29 new auction records were established, and 22 artists made their market debuts.
Read more about African-American Art from the Johnson Publishing Company December 7, 2019 African American Art African-American Art from the Johnson Publishing Company We welcome a new decade with 100 fine artworks from the collection of the Johnson Publishing Company, a great institution of American publishing and an icon of African-American culture. The sale will feature paintings, sculpture and works on paper from diverse periods, with 75 artists featured,
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: African-American Fine Art April 9, 2018 African American Art Records & Results: African-American Fine Art We held our highest-grossing auction to date on April 5, totaling $4.5M—more than $1M over the high estimate of the sale. The 160 works that made up the highly curated…