Browsing Tag Modern & Post-War Art

October 26, 2023

The fall Modern & Post-War Art auction will include work from the early twentieth century through post-World War II art movements such as Pop, Minimalism, and Abstract…

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…

May 16, 2023

Our May 25, 2023 Modern & Post-War Art auction features a wide array: from the Post-Impressionist era, a work on paper by Gwen John, up to the works of abstract artist James…

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…

December 13, 2022

Swann Galleries kicked the final month of 2022 off with a sale of Modern & Post-War Art featuring Alma Thomas & the Washington Scene on December 1 to great fanfare. The…

November 28, 2022

Rafael Tufiño Rafael Tufiño was born in Brooklyn, NY, and moved to Puerto Rico at age ten. He served in the US Army from 1943-1946 during the Second World War. He was stationed in…

November 8, 2022

Related Reading Alma Thomas & the Washington Scene A special section is devoted to the artwork of Alma Thomas and her Washington, DC contemporaries. The centerpiece…

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 29, 2022

This season’s Modern & Post-War Art auction is set to present a broad scope of artistic movements, featuring Selections From the Gary Snyder Collection. The collection…