19th & 20th Century Prints & Drawings

February 6, 2024

An array of fine art bridges the seasons and centuries with nineteenth-century and Modern paintings, drawings and prints, as well as a section devoted to Latin American…

February 1, 2024

Swann Galleries opened the winter 2024 season with the fourth iteration of The Artist of the WPA. The timed online auction closed Thursday, January 25, with an 89% sell-through…

December 19, 2023

Swann Galleries continued to offer exceptional auctions of quality material in 2023. The year featured several collections, including a special selection of 100 works from the…

March 20, 2023

Joseph Cornell & His Own Brand of American Surrealism Though now considered one of the few American proponents of Surrealism, Joseph Cornell was apprehensive about the…

Marcel Duchamp (after), The Chess Players, color offset lithograph, 1967.  Estimate $7,000 to $10,000. 
February 24, 2023

Dada & Surrealism Twentieth Century Art Our selection of twentieth century art includes more than 200 lots of museum-quality works — featuring paintings, drawings, sculpture…

January 3, 2023

2022 was a historic year for Swann in more ways than one. The house celebrated its 80th year of auctions, bringing with it the 70th anniversary of the first photography auction to…

August 22, 2022

The winter-spring auction season at Swann is a masterclass in marathon training, and the 2022 iteration proved no different with 20 auctions held between late January and the…

August 22, 2022

The 1920s were a time of prosperity in America. World War I had ended and the pessimism of the 1910s turned into optimism for modern life. American artists continued to focus on…

July 7, 2022

The 1913 Armory Show Inspired by time spent in Europe, around 1910, Arthur Dove became the first American artist to paint an abstract painting. At this time, abstract art was…

June 27, 2022

James Macry in our prints and drawings department examines two works that exemplify the market for Edward Hopper prints Edward Hopper first began printmaking in 1915, following…