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Among the highlights in our October 22 auction of Photographs & Photographic Literature are portraits by Diane Arbus  of key figures in the American Art Scene for a 1966 story…

September 23, 2009 African American Art

The image that graces the cover of the auction catalogue for Swann Galleries’ sale of African-American Fine Art on Thursday, October 8, 2009, is John Biggers’s powerful 1987 oil…

September 17, 2009 African American Art

Our October 8, 2009 auction of African-American Fine Art featured the Richard L. Brown painting Mt. Monadnock, 1911, which sold for $7,200.

September 16, 2009 African American Art

Our October 8, 2009 African-American Fine Art auction marks the first time that early photographer Cornelius Marion Battey’s photographic portraits will come to auction. These…

Two of Swann Galleries’ autumn 2009 auctions feature desirable Bibles from the collection of Mel and Julie Meadows—it is the largest offering of Bibles to come up for auction in…