Browsing Tag watercolor

February 5, 2025

An eclectic and engaging dialogue between several European, American, and Latin American artistic traditions and movements, this 19th & 20th Century Art auction will include…

November 13, 2024

In this December auction we are offering a range of collectible material including regional and decorative world maps spanning 350 years of cartographic printing, beautifully…

June 7, 2017

A recently rediscovered watercolor by John Marin will be making its auction debut in our June 15 sale of American Art. The work displays two features for which the artist is…

May 11, 2017

Brothers George and Isaac (who often went by his middle name of Robert) Cruikshank were famed early nineteenth-century caricaturists. Their work appears in two of our sales this…

November 7, 2016

This is the first time a signed first edition of The Prophet has appeared at auction. Interestingly, Gibran, the third best-selling poet of all time, signed the current book…

September 4, 2014

In honor of the 75th anniversary of everyone’s favorite French schoolgirl, our Art Books specialist Christine von der Linn submitted this post. This Saturday, September 6,…

May 21, 2014

Among the highlights of our June 12, 2014 auction of American Art—and the image that graces the catalogue cover—is Will Barnet’s Play, a watercolor and oil on paper from…

April 16, 2014

Swann Galleries’ June 3, 2014 auction of Maps & Atlases, Natural History & Color Plate Books offers an unparalleled sketch from life of the Battle of the Nile…

September 11, 2013

Swann will offer a László Moholy-Nagy gouache and watercolor Composition in our 19th & 20th Century Prints & Drawings auction tomorrow. Moholy-Nagy (1894-1946) was an…

May 31, 2013

After graduating from Pratt in 1901, Peterson continued her education at the Art Students League of New York, then in Europe at the London School of Art, and in Paris, where she…