July 15, 2024Chloe Lesser19th & 20th Century Literature This Season’s Successes: Winter-Spring 2024 Auctions in Review Read more about This Season’s Successes: Winter-Spring 2024 Auctions in Review In the 2024 Winter-Spring season, Swann Galleries continued to provide high-quality auctions of unusual and rare material. Several single-owner collections were featured, including Illustration Art: Featuring Highlights from the Collection…
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 19th & 20th Century Art: Featuring Dada & Surrealism — March 23, 2023 Auction Highlights February 24, 2023 19th & 20th Century Prints & Drawings 19th & 20th Century Art: Featuring Dada & Surrealism — March 23, 2023 Auction Highlights Dada & Surrealism We are especially excited for the current iteration of our annual Nineteenth & Twentieth Century Art auction offering a selection of 150 lots devoted to modern artists…
Read more about Records & Results: 19th & 20th Century Prints & Drawings March 8, 2019 19th & 20th Century Prints & Drawings Records & Results: 19th & 20th Century Prints & Drawings Ismar Littmann Family Collection Shines in Swann Galleries’ Prints & Drawings Sale Our sale of 19th & 20th Century Prints & Drawings on March 5 earned $2.7M, with property from the Ismar Littmann Family Collection of German Expressionism &…
Read more about Winslow Homer’s Personal “Bible” June 9, 2017 American Art Winslow Homer’s Personal “Bible” On a visit to his Prout’s Neck studio, Winslow Homer’s friend and fellow artist John W. Beatty picked up a dogeared book and asked him if he found it of…
Read more about Top Lots: Winslow Homer, Preston Dickinson & James D. Smillie June 14, 2014 American Art Top Lots: Winslow Homer, Preston Dickinson & James D. Smillie The first of its kind at Swann to break $1 Million, the American Art auction on Thursday was our highest-grossing sale in this category ever, with a sale total of…
Read more about Artwork from the Collection of Artist James D. Smillie April 11, 2014 American Art Artwork from the Collection of Artist James D. Smillie In the 2014 Spring season, Swann is pleased to offer a selection of works from the collection of American painter/printmaker James D. Smillie. Smillie (1833-1909), a New York artist known…
Read more about Lloyd Goodrich and Reginald Marsh November 15, 2010 American Art Lloyd Goodrich and Reginald Marsh This Thursday’s American Art sale includes several items from the collection of Lloyd Goodrich, one of the most distinguished American art historians of the 20th century and Director of the…