Browsing Tag Modern & Post-War Art

December 22, 2021

As we close out another successful year at Swann we look back at our record-filled sales.

November 23, 2021

We tasked our Modern & Post-War Art Director, Harold Porcher, to share the top lots to watch in the upcoming auction on December 2. Fine Sculpture Abstract Works Abstract Works

November 6, 2021

The end of the nineteenth century brought the Machine Age. Many wonderful innovations such as electrification, the assembly line, skyscrapers, and radio broadcast made…

August 20, 2021

We are honored to offer the collection of Virginia Zabriskie in a special single-owner auction that opens our 2021 fall season. Virginia Zabriskie’s personal collection was built…

June 24, 2021

Modern & Post-War Art, Fine Photographs & Contemporary Art Auctions of Modern & Post-War Art, Fine Photographs and Contemporary Art at Swann Galleries in late May and…

May 14, 2021

When Paul Cezanne left Paris and the Impressionist movement to explore his independent concepts of capturing time and space on the two-dimensional picture plane through light,…

April 27, 2021

Featuring works by Elaine de Kooning, John Little, John Wesley, and Robert Motherwell, as well as works by members of the American Abstract Artists group, Museum of Non-Objective…

January 6, 2021

On December 3, 2020, we held our first Modern and Post-War Art auction. The sale was met with enthusiasm by collectors generating success for a number of works on offer. Here,…

December 23, 2020

In a year that was unlike any in our lifetimes, Swann’s specialists and staff proved to be as resilient and innovative as ever, bringing forward new and safe ways to hold…

December 8, 2020

Our first sale of Modern & Post-War Art on Thursday, December 3, 2020, proved to be a major success with a sale total of $739,155 (over $200,000 above the sale’s high…