Swann Auction Galleries

20 Years of Travel Posters Pays Off with 10 New Records

“After twenty years of conducting auctions of Rare and Important Travel Posters it was validating to see the sale turn in the best results in the last three years,” noted Nicholas D. Lowry, Swann Galleries’ President and Director of Vintage Posters. The Thursday, November 14 auction saw a 75% sell-through rate, an “industry-l...

Vintage Posters: Winter-Spring 2020 Highlights

Ski poster enthusiasts always find something appealing in our winter Vintage Posters auction, but most exciting is the offering of rare and important Art Nouveau posters, which features some of the most famous works by key artists of the era. Also included are many wonderful works from that period that may not be as well known, but are equally impr...

African-American Art from the Johnson Publishing Company

We welcome a new decade with 100 fine artworks from the collection of the Johnson Publishing Company, a great institution of American publishing and an icon of African-American culture. The sale will feature paintings, sculpture and works on paper from diverse periods, with 75 artists featured, from Henry Ossawa Tanner to Carrie Mae Weems. The majo...

Collecting the Works of Women Illustrators

Our fall 2019 sale of Illustration Art on December 10 features a superb selection of artwork by women, whose contribution to the field is only just beginning to receive the recognition it deserves. Here Laura Polucha, a cataloguer in our Illustration Art department, touches on highlights, including storybook illustrations, advertisem...

The Hot Bid Interviews Christine von der Linn for our December 10 Sale of Illustration Art

Sheila Gibson Stoodley, author of The Hot Bid, spoke with our Illustration Art Director, Christine von der Linn about a special 1973 Charles Addams cartoon published in The New Yorker at auction December 10 in our Illustration Art sale. Sheila’s blog, The Hot Bid showcases intriguing and deli...