Tag: Diane Arbus

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    LGBTQ+ Art, Material Culture & History Auction Bests Itself for the Third Year in a Row

    Auction Brings $1.3M and Records Abound New Record for Tom of Finland, Shattering Top Price Set by House Last Year Tom of Finland, Home – Secured, colored pencil on paper, 1982. Sold for $87,500, a record for the artist. LGBTQ+ ART, MATERIAL CULTURE & HISTORY Sale 2578; August 19, 2021…

    LGBTQ+ Art, Material Culture & History Auction Bests Itself for the Third Year in a Row1

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    Queer Art, Ephemera & Historical Material at Swann Galleries August 19

    Featuring Tom of Finland, Gerda Wegener, JEB, Lesbian pulp fiction and more Tom of Finland, Home – Secured, colored pencil on paper, 1982. Estimate $60,000 to $90,000 New York— Swann Galleries’s third annual auction dedicated to the art, material culture, and history of the LGBTQ+ community will be held on…

    Queer Art, Ephemera & Historical Material at Swann Galleries August 19-1

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    A Full Month of Fine Art Sales at Swann Shows Strength

    Andy Warhol and Jean-Michel Basquiat, silver print, 1985, printed 1997. Sold June 11, 2020, in Fine Photographs for $27,500. New York—Swann Galleries offered four sales of Fine Art this June, each one proving audiences are undeterred by the remote bidding format due to social distancing guidelines. Feral Benga, cast bronze,…

    A Full Month of Fine Art Sales at Swann Shows Strength

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    Twentieth-Century Masterworks Shine in Fine Photographs at Swann

    Robert Mapplethorpe, Lisa Lyon, oversize silver print, one of an edition of one, 1980. Estimate $30,000 to $40,000. New York—On Thursday, June 11, Swann Galleries will hold a sale of Fine Photographs that  features twentieth-century masterworks, landscapes, feminist and Latin American photographers, as well as pop photographica. Leading the sale is Robert Mapplethorpe’s oversize study Lisa Lyon, silver print,…

    Twentieth-Century Masterworks Shine in Fine Photographs at Swann-2

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    The "Evil" Photographs of Diane Arbus: Know Before You Bid

    Christie’s Brings to Auction a Diane Arbus Photograph in Timed Event "I think all families are creepy in a way," photographer Diane Arbus wrote to her friend and editor Peter Crookston in 1968. At the time, Arbus was planning a photo set featuring families she'd found particularly interesting. She described…

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