What about stating the obvious? When there is significant institutional investment in the performing arts—i.e., France since the 1980s, with their “Centre Chorégraphique Nationaux (CCN)”1—the field radically expands, creators explore, and new dances flourish. The French Dance Reflections Festival in New York this past fall, presented by jewelry company Van Cleef & Arpels, really brought this home to me.
Printed & Manuscript Americana at Swann April 15
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Bernard Romans, An Exact View of the Late Battle at Charlestown, June 17th, 1775, engraving, 1776. Estimate $40,000 to $60,000.
Swann Galleries on
April 15 with a selection of American historical prints from a private collection, material from the Revolutionary and Civil Wars, religious ephemera and publications, and more.
           The sale opens with 121 lots from a noteworthy collection of American historical prints; which encompass the colonial era, the American Revolution, Washington and the âfounding fathers,â allegorical prints and the early American engravers, the War of 1812, commerce, and expansion. Highlights include a 1776 engraving of the Late Battle at Charlestown on June 17, 1775, by