Auction Highlights: The New York Sale — September 26, 2024
At Auction Thursday, September 26 at 12:00 PM ET
In honor of the 400th anniversary of the founding of New York City, Swann Galleries is bringing back the New York sale. From a monotype by Abraham Walkowitz featuring the crowded and timeless Coney Island to posters for still-iconic city events like the early editions of the New York Film Festival to street-style photographs and prints celebrating the early days of the Subway, the sale offers a slice—or maybe even a whole pie—of NYC life in all its glory.
This special themed sale can trace its roots to the last years of the twentieth century when Swann last held auctions celebrating the city. Combining photography, prints, paintings, drawings, posters, books, maps and autographs, the auction explores the myth of the metropolis. Through moody depression-era prints, jubilant posters for tourism, and beyond, the sale presents New York as a visual icon, an aspirational destination, and a homeland.
1985. Estimate $2,500 to $3,500.
Cities of New York and Brooklyn – From New York Looking South-East, large color-tinted lithographed panoramic view celebrating the completion of the Brooklyn Bridge May 24th, 1883. Estimate $2,000 to $3,000.
1980. Estimate $2,000 to $3,000.
53 West 88th Street, Manhattan, 2 silver prints, circa 1952. Estimate $3,000 to $4,500.
