November 13, 2024Caleb KifferMaps & Atlases Auction Highlights: Maps & Atlases, Natural History & Color Plate Books — December 10, 2024 Read more about Auction Highlights: Maps & Atlases, Natural History & Color Plate Books — December 10, 2024 In this December auction we are offering a range of collectible material including regional and decorative world maps spanning 350 years of cartographic printing, beautifully engraved color plates, and more.
Read more about Recently Rediscovered Watercolor by John Marin June 7, 2017 American Art Recently Rediscovered Watercolor by John Marin A recently rediscovered watercolor by John Marin will be making its auction debut in our June 15 sale of American Art. The work displays two features for which the artist…
Read more about George & Robert Cruikshank, Early Caricaturists May 11, 2017 Books & Manuscripts George & Robert Cruikshank, Early Caricaturists Brothers George and Isaac (who often went by his middle name of Robert) Cruikshank were famed early nineteenth-century caricaturists. Their work appears in two of our sales this season, 19th…
Read more about Signed First Edition of Kahlil Gibran’s The Prophet November 7, 2016 19th & 20th Century Literature Signed First Edition of Kahlil Gibran’s The Prophet One of the highlights in our November 10 sale of 19th & 20th Century Literature is a scarce first edition of The Prophet, signed by its author, Kahlil Gibran, in…
Read more about 75 years of Madeline September 4, 2014 Illustration Art 75 years of Madeline In honor of the 75th anniversary of everyone’s favorite French schoolgirl, our Art Books specialist Christine von der Linn submitted this post. This Saturday, September 6, 2014, marks the 75th…
Read more about Sense of Play: Will Barnet’s Nude with Cats May 21, 2014 American Art Sense of Play: Will Barnet’s Nude with Cats Among the highlights of our June 12, 2014 auction of American Art—and the image that graces the catalogue cover—is Will Barnet’s Play, a watercolor and oil on paper from 1975. Barnet…
Read more about Battle of the Nile Sketch: The French Fleet on the Eve of Its Destruction April 16, 2014 Maps & Atlases Battle of the Nile Sketch: The French Fleet on the Eve of Its Destruction Swann Galleries’ June 3, 2014 auction of Maps & Atlases, Natural History & Color Plate Books offers an unparalleled sketch from life of the Battle of the Nile attributed to Captain James…
Read more about Moholy-Nagy’s Watercolor September 11, 2013 19th & 20th Century Prints & Drawings Moholy-Nagy’s Watercolor Swann will offer a László Moholy-Nagy gouache and watercolor Composition in our 19th & 20th Century Prints & Drawings auction tomorrow. Moholy-Nagy (1894-1946) was an influential Jewish-Hungarian artist known for…
Read more about Notes from the Catalogue: Artist Jane Peterson May 31, 2013 American Art Notes from the Catalogue: Artist Jane Peterson Our June 13 auction of American Art features five unique works by Jane Peterson, an American artist born in Elgin, Illinois in 1876. Born into relative poverty, she showed artistic promise…