New York Swann Galleries’ sale of Contemporary Art on Thursday, June 10 will feature impressive works from blue-chip artists working across the different schools of the last several .
Contemporary art at auction June 10: Alice Neel, Elaine de Kooning, Kara Walker & more
John Salt, Riviera 2, oil on canvas, 1969. Estimate $30,000 to $50,000.
NEW YORK, NY
.-Swann Galleries sale of Contemporary Art on Thursday, June 10 will feature impressive works from blue-chip artists working across the different schools of the last several decades.
The sale is led by Photorealist pioneer John Salt with the 1969 Riviera 2a hyper-realistic oil-on-canvas work of a car interior, a common motif in his works ($30,000-50,000). During Salts time teaching at the Maryland Institute College of Art his style evolved into the photorealist manner seen in Riviera 2 through discovering the work of photographers such as Garry Winogrand and Lee Friedlander. Artists also practicing in photorealism include Vija Celmins with Comet, linoleum cut, 1992 ($12,00-18,000); Richard Estes with Qualicraft Shoes, color screenprint, 1974 ($3,000-5,000); and Howard Kanocitz with André Champagne, col
Illustration by Elizabeth Brockway/The Daily Beast/GettyLast September, New York City’s Swann Galleries were advertising the sale of an invaluable piece of Spanish and Mexican history: a 500-year-old letter involving Hernán Cortés, the Spanish military leader and colonizer. The letter was expected to sell for somewhere between $20,000 and $30,000 until a group of academics intervened. Reuters reports that the letter was one of a cluster of Cortés documents that had been stolen out of the National Archive of Mexico (AGN) and put up for sale. What’s even more shocking is that this is not the first time that important and valuable pieces of history have been stolen from a national archive, prominent library, or museum and ended up on the block at a prominent auction house.The thefts would have gone unnoticed had it not been for the investigations of amateur sleuths and professional academics María Isabel Grañén Porrúa, a scholar of Spanish
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Maps & Atlases, Natural History & Color Plate Books at Swann Galleries June 3
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Maps & Atlases, Natural History & Color Plate Books will feature world cartography with an emphasis on American maps, works from prolific printmakers and ornithologists.
           World maps on offer include offerings of a fine early seventeenth-century
Italian celestial globe comprised of 12 hand-colored engraved gores by Giuseppe de Rossi, after an earlier globe created by Jodocus Hondius in Amsterdam in 1601 ($15,000-20,000); and five double-page engraved maps of the world and continents by Mercator (family) are on offer ($7,000-10,000).