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299 Funny, Insightful, and Creative Artists’ Books Head to Auction

by Cassie Packard November 4, 2021November 4, 2021

Ed Ruscha, Louise Bourgeois, and David Hammons have all creatively forayed into the nebulous genre of “artists’ books” that are going up for auction at Swann Auction Galleries.

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Sale of African American Art, Benefitting Philly Archives, Broke Auction House Records

Avatar photo by Valentina Di Liscia October 10, 2021October 10, 2021

A group of 24 lots in Swann Galleries’s record-breaking sale were offered to benefit the Brandywine Workshop and Archives in Philadelphia.

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Unique Works From the WPA Sell at Auction

by Cassie Packard February 8, 2021February 9, 2021

The Swann Galleries auction provided insight into some of the varied Works Progress Association projects sponsored by the US between 1935 and 1943.

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David Wojnarowicz’s Little-known “Stoned” Drawings

Avatar photo by Valentina Di Liscia August 7, 2020May 23, 2022

Wojnarowicz created his “Stoned Sketchbook” as a teenager, but its loopy, delightful drawings foreshadow the mature artist’s irresistible irreverence.

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Portraying the Sometimes Strange American Self in Tintype Photographs

Avatar photo by Allison Meier April 15, 2013April 18, 2013

A lot of 179 of these tintype photographs dating from the 1860s to 1890s is part of the upcoming Fine Photographs & Photobooks sale at Swann Auction Galleries, and are something of a core sample of the shifting social changes in the country, and how those 19th century people were choosing to remember themselves and portray others in the post-Civil War era.

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Metropolitan Museum Snaps Up an Unrecognized David Drawing for $700

by Kyle Chayka March 5, 2013March 5, 2013

What happens when you get the best art historians, curators, and conservators together in a single museum? Well, you’re pretty likely to get the best deals in the art world, as the Metropolitan Museum just did when it snagged a Jacques-Louis David drawing for $700 ($840 with premium).

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The Unknown Sheet Music Covers of René Magritte

Avatar photo by Hrag Vartanian April 20, 2012April 23, 2012

While many people know Magritte’s Surrealist art, most probably don’t know his Art Deco commercial work.

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