Browsing Tag contemporary art

January 31, 2024

Nicholas D. Lowry shares his picks for The Subculture Sale. Bidding open now through February 8.

November 7, 2023

Our Prints & Drawings department shares their picks for the November 16, 2023, sale of Contemporary Art.

October 25, 2023

Swann’s Contemporary Art auction on November 16 spans the last fifty-plus years of artistic creativity, encompassing mid-century Abstract Expressionism to the present…

August 22, 2023

The August 17, 2023, LGBTQ+ Art, Material Culture & History auction was a testament to the growing interest in the newly defined area of collecting. In keeping with previous…

May 30, 2023

The date was mid-April 1966 and Norman Dolph sat at the soundboard at the ramshackle Scepter Studios on West 54th Street in Manhattan, recording songs by a quartet…

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…

October 26, 2022

Abstract Expressionists & Pop Art Signature works by Jackson Pollock, Willem de Kooning, Joan Mitchell, Helen Frankenthaler and Robert Motherwell represent Abstract…

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…

May 3, 2022

canons of dominant New York and international art markets. What they found among the area's expansive ocean, relaxed culture, and the dramatic southern California sky, was a…

April 14, 2022

Featuring Art from the Collection of the late Francis V. O’Connor, Co-editor of the Jackson Pollock Catalogue Raisonné Lot 34: Willem de Kooning, Quatre Lithographies,…