Vintage Posters sale at Swann establishes six auction records
H.A. Volodimer, Grand Prix dEnduranve de 24 Heurs / Coup Rudge Whitworth, 1923. Sold for $15,000, a record for the artist.
NEW YORK, NY
.-Swann Galleries winter offering of Vintage Posters saw the highest recent sell-through rate of the houses large biannual sale in the category, This is particularly gratifying under the circumstances in which auctions are being carried out during the COVID-19 era. The sale covered a variety of different collecting areas Art Nouveau, ski, travel, food and beverage, and we set records on a number of different posters across the genres offered. Most impressive was that we sold 92% of the ski posters offered, which is far and away a company record, noted Nicholas D. Lowry, specialist for the sale and president of Swann.