Top lots, Prices with buyer's premium at Swann Galleries June 17th Auction
397 Ernest Hemingway, Three Stories and Ten Poems, first and only edition of Hemingway's first book, Paris, 1923, $21,600 I
3 Richard Blome, A Geographic Description of the Four Parts of the World, 25 engraved maps, London, 1670, $19,200 D; 256 Humphrey Repton, Sketches and Hints on Landscape Gardening…, first edition, with 10 hand-colored aquatint engravings, London, 1794, $14,400 D; 190 Robert Warner, The Orchid Album, 527 hand-colored lithographed plates, 11 volumes, London, 1882-97, $13,200 D; 168 J. Barbosa Rodrigues, Sertum Palmarum Brasiliensium…, 174 chromolithographed plates, 2 volumes, Brussels, 1903, $12,000 D; 233 Hams Holbein the younger, and Edmund Lodge, Imitations of Original Drawings…for the Portraits of Illustrious Persons of the Court of Henry VIII, first edition, 84 stipple-engraved portraits, London, 1792, $10,800 D; 141 John Speed, A New and Accurat Map of the World, double-page engraved double-hemispheric world map, London, 1626 or later, $10,200 D; 376 F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gasby, first edition, first printing in an early dust jacket, New York, 1925, $9,600 C; 370 Emily Dickinson, Poems, First Series, first edition of Dickinson's first book, Boston, 1890, $7,800 D; 464 Walter Gropius, ed., Staatliches Bauhaus Weimar 1919-1923, first edition, one of 2000 in German, Munich, 1923, $6,960 C; 226 Gaspard Fossati, Aya Sophia, Constantinople, first edition, chromolithographed title and 23 (of 25) hand-finished tinted lithographed plates after Fossati, London, 1852, $6,240 D; 142 Speed, A New Description of Carolina, double-page engraved map, London, 1676, $5,760 C; 27 Sanborn Map Co., Insurance Maps of the City of New York: Manhattan; 11 volumes, New York, 1910s-60s, $5,520 D; 438 Virginia Woolf, To the Lighthouse, first edition, signed, London, 1927, $5,520 D; 484 Cahiers D'Art, Volume XI, Number 1-2: L'objet, scarce special surrealism and the object issue, Paris, 1936, $5,520 C; 97 Braun and Hogenberg, Londinum Feracissimi Angliae Regni Metropolis, double-page engraved town plan, Cologne, 1572 or later, $5,280 D; 225 Marcus Bloch, Allgemeine Naturgeschichte der Fische, 104 hand-colored engraved plates, Berlin, circa 2783-85, $5,280 D; 398 Mary Welsh Hemingway, large archive of correspondence, drafts of an autobiography, and other papers belonging to Ernest Hemingway's fourth wife, 1942-76, $5,280 D; 241 John Stow, A Survey of the Cities of London and Westminster, 71 engraved maps & plates, 2 vols, London, 1720, $5,040 C; 591 Xxe (Vingtieme Siecle), First Series, Numbers 1-6, Paris and New York, 1937-39, $5040 C.

Swann Galleries' April 22 auction of Autographs saw strong results, with 88 percent of items finding buyers and a sale total over $35,000.
"The market continues to show an upswing," said Autographs cataloguer Marco Tomaschett, "with the old standby autographs proving particularly strong among collectors and dealers alike."
The auction's top lot was an attractive photograph of Theodore Roosevelt in his Rough Rider uniform, signed as President , November 21, 1904, which brought $15,600. The large image shows Roosevelt standing outside a tent at Camp Wikoff in Montauk, Long Island, and is inscribed "with best wishes."
Another Roosevelt highlight was a typed letter signed, with a 12-line autograph postscript also signed, to Frank T. Winslow, offering a clarification of his statement about Thomas Paine, defending himself against the charge of maligning Paine, March 26, 1918, $4,800.
Among other examples of Americana were a document signed by Revolutionary War officer Francis Marion, a receipt for provisions for his regiment, October 7, 1781, $5,280; an Alexander Hamilton letter signed, as Secretary of the Treasury, September 29, 1792, $4,320; and a Samuel Francis Smith autograph manuscript signed, the complete four stanzas of the song America, two pages, December 12, 1876, $2,400.
An unusually large offering of music-related autographs featured an album containing approximately 80 late 19th and early 20th century signatures or signatures with inscriptions from composers, musicians and conductors, among them an autograph quotation of two bars from Falstaff, dated and signed by Guiseppe Verdi, $11,400; as well as two bars on a hand-drawn stave from La Boheme signed by Giacomo Puccini, 1907, $4,080; an autograph letter signed by Maria Callas, May 8, 1962, $5,760; and an archive of over 60 items written to or concerning Russian musician and composer Myron Jacobson, $5,520.
There were two signed first editions of books by F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Beautiful and Damned, signed and inscribed and with a small ink drawing by the author, 1922, $12,000, and This Side of Paradise, inscribed "in memory of a very (?) English, very halcyon afternoon tea, May 17, 1921, " $7,200.
Among other literary autographs were a brief autograph letter signed by Karl Marx, a request for a subscription, May 8, 1979, $9,600; an initialed pencil drawing by Robert Louis Stevenson of his home in Samoa, $3,840; and a typed letter signed by James Baldwin discussing a new work, Cannes, January 11, 1954, $8,400.
Several Albert Einstein-related lots included a bust-portrait photograph signed and dated 1929, $6,240; a typed letter singed that sheds light on the physicist's wartime view on pacifism and conscientious objectors, March 30, 1942, $7,800; and a typed quotation regarding common sense versus science, signed August 21, 1951, $9,000.
Other scientific highlights were an autograph letter signed by Louis Pasteur, in French, with the original holograph envelope, Paris, July 9, 1897, $3,120; and an ALS by Marie Curie, thanking an unnamed recipient for helping her gain access to the Radium Institute, Paris, February 14, 1918, $4,560.
For complete results, an illustrated catalogue, with prices realized on request, is available for $35 from Swann Galleries, Inc., 104 East 25th Street, New York, NY 10010, or online at www.swanngalleries.com.
For further information, and to propose consignments to upcoming Autographs auctions, please contact Marco Tomaschett at (212) 254-4710, extension 12, or via email at mtomaschett@swanngalleries.com.

On Thursday, May 20, Swann Galleries will conduct a two-part auction of Photographic Literature & Important Photographs that features many scarce and significant works – both individual photographic images and books.
The auction opens with nearly 200 lots of Photographic Literature, including many sought-after monographs such as a first edition of Berenice Abbott's Changing New York, 1939, signed and inscribed to photograph collector and dealer Howard Daitz (estimate: $4,000 to $6,000); signed and inscribed first editions of Manuel Alvarez Bravo's Fotografias, Mexico, 1945 ($9,000 to $12,000), and Alexey Brodovitch's Ballet, New York, 1945 ($8,000 to $12,000); as well as Robert Frank's The Lines of My Hand, Tokyo, (1972 ($3,500 to $4,500).
There are three examples from 21st Editions books' Platinum Series: Sally Mann, illustrated with 10 platinum prints by the artist, plus an additional signed print, one of 100 copies, 2005 ($12,000 to $18,000); Robert and Shana Harrison's The Book of Life, one of 75 signed and numbered copies issued with an additional signed platinum print, 2005 ($14,000 to $18,000); and Michael Kenna's Mont-Saint-Michel, from an edition of 60 signed and numbered copies, with an additional singed print, 2006 ($10,000 to $15,000).
The sale's afternoon session features more than 25 important photographs – from 19th-century cased images by unknown photographs to contemporary works by world-renowned artists. Among the earliest highlights are mammoth albumen prints of southwestern landscapes by William Henry Jackson; plates from Eadweard Muybridge's Animal Locomotion; Julia Margaret Cameron's portrait of Alfred, Lord Tennyson, albumen print, 1869 ($12,000 to $18,000); an album with 49 views of old Japan by Felix Beato, circa 1872 ($8,000 to $12,000); and an early album by Pierre Pullis containing 50 photographs of the construction of the New York City subway, 1900-1902 ($12,000 to $18,000).
Modernist works of note include Imogen Cunningham's elegant Magnolia Blossom, silver print, 1925, printed 1970s ($12,000 to $18,000); Edward Weston's sensual Nude (Charis), silver print, 1935 ($35,000 to $45,000); and several of Alexey Brodovitch's ballet images gifted and inscribed to a friend, among them one from the series Septieme Symphonie, and one from Les Sylphides, silver prints, 1935-37, printed 1950s-early 60s ($10,000 to $15,000 and $8,000 to $12,000 respectively).
From the late 20th and early 21st centuries are Helmut Newton's provocative Rue Aubriot, Paris, silver print, 1975 ($14,000 to $18,000); Robert Rauschenberg's Untitled (spigot and pail), silver print, 1979 ($7,000 to $10,000); two of William Eggleston's untitled dye-transfer prints from his Graceland series, 1983 (each $7,000 to $10,000); Shirin Neshat's I am its Secret, chromogenic print, 1993 ($8,000 to $12,000); Sally Mann's Antietam #16, silver print, 2000-2002 ($20,000 to $30,000); and the BAM (Brooklyn Academy of Music) Portfolio, with 11 original photographs by contemporary artists including Avedon, Fuss, Prince, Serrano, Sherman, Leibovitch and others, 2000 ($18,000 to $22,000).
The auction will begin at 10:30 a.m. on Thursday, May 20 with Photographic Literature, and will continue at 2:00 p.m. with Important Photographs.
The photographs and books will be on public exhibition at Swann Galleries Saturday, May 15, from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. and Monday, May 17 through Wednesday, May 19, from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m.
An illustrated catalogue with information on bidding by mail or fax, is available for $35 from Swann Galleries, Inc., 104 East 25th Street, New York, NY 10010, or online at www.swanngalleries.com.
For further information, and to make advance arrangements to bid by telephone during the auction, please contact Daile Kaplan at (212) 254-4710, extension 21, or via e-mail at dkaplan@swanngalleries.com.
Live online bidding is also available via Artfact.com.

As always, this sale contains a wide variety of subjects and styles. Highlights include three never-before-seen bold showroom display posters for Chrysler cars and trucks from 1938; excellent Art Deco images such as Raymond Gid's Duncan Yo Yo, 1930; a superb poster for the Osaka Railway, by a virtually unknown Japanese Art Deco master, Toyonosuke Kurozumi, circa 1935; a signed and inscribed E. McKnight Kaufffer gouache maquette of Stonehenge, 1931; one of John Heartfield's rarest photomontages, Mord An Unsern Brudern Im Osten, 1927; Keep 'Em Rolling, 1941, a quartet of work incentive posters by Leo Lionni; and works by Ludwig Hohlwein, A.M. Cassandre, Paul Colin, Niklaus Stoecklin and Joseph Binder.
Swann Galleries is located at 104 East 25th Street, New York, NY 10010. For more information, please call (212) 254-4710.

This diverse assortment features medical and scientific works and a selection of 18th and early 19th-century auction catalogues. Among highlights are Chappuis, De me(n)te et memoria, Paris, 1511, an early work on the psychology of memory; Bergkordenung, Leipzig, 1520, a revised edition of the 1509 Annaberg code, the earliest comprehensive mining legislation in Germany; Werner, Canones…complectens praecepta & observations de mutatione aurae, Nuremberg, 1546, an early tract on weather prediction; Avelar, Reportorio dos Tempos, Coimbra, 1593, an early Portuguese almanac; and a collection of over 275 incunable leaves, including recovered binder's waste and examples printed on vellum.
Swann Galleries is located at 104 East 25th Street, New York, NY 10010. For more information, please call (212) 254-4710.

The American Art section offers private collections of works by Jared French and Paul Cadmus, including a color chalk drawing of a male nude by Cadmus; and paintings and drawings by Hassam, Marsh, Benton, Avery, Burliuk and others. Among Contemporary Art highlights are prints by Bacon, Calder, Motherwell, Indiana, Dine, Wesselman and Rauschenberg; a hand-colored print by de Kooning; prints and drawings by Warhol; prints and a multiple by Koons; and a Nevelson sculpture.
Swann Galleries is located at 104 East 25th Street, New York, NY 10010. For more information, please call (212) 254-4710.

On Tuesday, March 9 Swann Galleries offer a large selection of 19th & 20th Century Prints & Drawings at auction. The two-session sale is divided into sections devoted to 19th century prints and drawings, American works, and modern European prints and drawings.
The auction opens with more than 170 lots of 19th century prints and drawings. Highlights of these include Camille Pissarro's Femme a la Barriere, etching, 1889 ($10,000 to $15,000); Edouard Vuillard's La Cousiniere, color lithograph, 1899 ($15,000 to $20,000); three pencil sketches of cats and a chalk drawing of a dog by Theophile Steinlen ($1,000 to $1,500 to $2,000 to $3,000); several of Paul Cesaer Helleu's portraits of society ladies, among them a color drypoint Femme au Chapeau, les mains sur le menton, circa 1905 ($,5000 to $8,000); a group of 20 color lithographs (of 32) from James Ensor's Scenes de la vie du Christ, artist's proofs printed on eight sheets of paper, 1921 ($12,000 to $18,000); and nearly 20 etchings by James A.M. Whistler.
A large section of Modern American prints and drawings include George Bellows's eerie Dance in a Madhouse, lithograph, 1917 ($7,000 to $10,000); John Marin's Downtown New York, the El, drypoint, 1921 ($5,000 to $8,000); Martin Lewis's Circus Night, a very scarce drypoint, 1933 ($10,000 to $15,000); Paul Cadmus's locker-room scene, Horseplay, etching, 1935 ($7,000 to $10,000); John Steuart Curry's powerful portrait of John Brown, lithograph, 1939 ($4,000 to $6,000); Ralston Crawford's Grey Street, color screenprint, 1940 ($3,000 to $5,000); and Thomas Hart Benton's Wreck of the Ol' 97, lithograph, 1944 ($8,000 to $12,000).
A notable three-dimensional multiple among the American highlights is Francisco Zuniga's Mujer con Rebozo, Sentada, bronze with light brown patina, 1974 ($15,000 to $20,000).
An assortment of fine prints by Pablo Picasso includes the very scarce Femme au fauteuil II: Dora Maar, aquatint, scraper, burin and drypoint, 1939 ($20,000 to $30,000); Diurnes: Femmes assise en Pyjama de Plage II, color linoleum cut, 1961 ($25,000 to $35,000); and several desirable after prints, among them Maternite, color aquatint and etching, 1930, and Le Peintre, color collotype and stencil, circa 1950 ($10,000 to $15,000 each). There are also examples of his terre de faience ware, including his first editioned ceramic piece, Diaulos Player, a glazed oval plate, 1947 ($12,000 to $18,000); and Woman Lamp, a turned vase with painted and engraved decoration, 1955 ($10,000 to $15,000).
Rounding out the European prints are Henri Matisse's Marguerite VI, lithograph, 1948, and a proof impression of Etude pour la Vierge, visage, lithograph, for which there was no published edition, 1950-51 ($8,000 to $12,000 each); Kees Van Dongen's La Marquise de Casati, color lithograph on Japon nacre, circa 1950 ($7,000 to $10,000); Willi Baumeister's Allegro, color screenprint, 1954 ($5,000 to $8,000); Georges Braque's L'Oiseua et son ombre II, color aquatint and etching, 1961 ($15,000 to $20,000); and Yozo Hamaguchi's Mantric Music I (Twenty-Two Cherries in 15 States), color mezzotint, 15 impressions, 1988 ($10,000 to $15,000).
The first session of the auction will begin at 10:30 a.m. on Tuesday, March 9. The sale will continue after a lunch break at 2:30 p.m. The works will be on public exhibition Friday, March 5, from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m.; Saturday, March 6, from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m.; and Monday, March 8, from 10 a.m. to 8 p.m.
An illustrated catalogue, with information on bidding by mail or fax, is available for $40 in the U.S./$50 elsewhere from Swann Galleries, Inc., 104 East 25th Street, New York, NY 10010, or online at www.swanngalleries.inc.
For further information, and to make advance arrangements to bid by telephone during the auction, please contact Todd Weyman at (212) 254-4710, extension 32, or via e-mail at tweyman@swanngalleries.com. Live online bidding is also available via Artfact.com.

On Thursday, March 18, Swann Galleries will conduct an auction of Printed & Manuscript Americana. Of special interest are fine Civil War material; aviation items; a selection of Judaica; and regional highlights related to locales including New York City. The sale also offers the Al Lowman Collection of books on Texas and the Southwest, and concludes with a large section devoted to Latin Americana.
Judaica highlights include the first printing of any part of the Bible in Hebrew in America, Liber Psalmorum Hebraice, with translation and notes in Latin, Cambridge, MA, 1809. This copy seems to have belonged to a Presbyterian minister in Mississippi (estimate: $9,000 to $12,000).
Among other notable collections of family documents in the auction are more than 130 pieces of correspondence of the MacDonald family, proprietors of the Sanford Hall asylum in Flushing, Long Island, 1825-1930 ($1,000 to $1,500); and an archive of Strong family papers, circa 1850-1940, including the diary of John Ruggles Strong, the eldest son of George Templeton Strong, a renowned New York City lawyer, whose own diary created quite a stir upon its publication ($1,500 to $2,500).
Of special note among the Civil War material are James H. Simpson, and James W. Abert's manuscript map, Part of Loudon County, Virginia, pen, ink, and wash on silk, signed by the mapmakers, who were captains and topographical engineers in the United Staets Army, Harpers Ferry, VA, July 29, 1861 ($2,000 to $3,000); 37 letters from Corporal John Myers of the 29th Iowa Infantry, to his wife and others, 1862-63 ($1,500 to $2,500); and an archive of more than 200 pay and recruitment documents for Newark, New Jersey troops, 1861-66 ($1,200 to $1,800).
From further North is a very rare and important Canadian item: a pamphlet on Newfoundland, Canada, A Discourse Containing a Loving Invitation both Honorable and Profitable to all Such as Shall be Adventurers…in the New-Found-Land by Richard Whitbourne, one of the founding fathers of Newfoundland, first edition, 46 pages, London, 1622 ($3,000 to $4,000); as well as An Ordinance of the Lords and Commons…, six pages, London, November 3, 1643, an act of Parliament that appointed Robert Rich, Earl of Warwick, as governor and admiral of the British American colonies ($2,000 to $3,000).
Two wonderful aviation items are Orville Wright's pencil sketch (on the back of an envelope) of aircraft upright cross-sections, illustrating the results of wind-tunnel experiments done by the Wright brothers in January 1903, Dayton, OH 1915 ($4,000 to $6,000); and an archive of letters, photographs and other documents related to aviation pioneer Stanley Yale Beach's professional and personal life, 1911-33, mostly 1924-33 ($3,000 to $4,000).
Other subjects areas represented in the sale include American Indians, the American Revolution, early American imprints, Presidents, Whaling; and material pertaining to individual states.
The final section of the sale contains more than 80 lots of Latin Americana, among which are 24 scarce leaflets and pamphlets relating to Argentina's struggle for independence, 1808-1813, such as a proclamation from the Primera Junta, issued the day after its formation, reassuring the populace of its intention to uphold the rule of law and the Catholic Church, Buenos Aires, May 26 1810 ($1,500 to $2,500); Cuerpos Militares de Buenos-Ayres, a decree establishing the Argentine army, Buenos Aires, May 29, 1810 ( ($1,000 to $1,500); and other proclamation urging the people of Cochabamba, Bolivia, to rise up in support of the revolutionary militia en route from Buenos Aires, August 9 1810 ($2,000 to $3,000).
The auction will take place Thursday, March 28 at 1:30 p.m. The items will be on public exhibition Saturday, March 13, from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m.; Monday, March 15 through Wednesday, March 17, from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. and Thursday, March 18, from 10 a.m. to noon.
An illustrated catalogue, with information on bidding by mail or fax, is available for $35 from Swann Galleries, Inc., 104 East 25th Street, New York, NY 10010, or online at www.swanngalleries.com.
For further information, and to make advance arrangements to bid by telephone during the auction, please contact Rijck Stattler by telephone at (212) 254-4710, extension 27, or email: rstattler@swanngalleries.inc.
Online bidding is available via Artfact.com.

Swann Galleries' auction of Vintage Posters on Thursday, February 4 features a fine selection of winter sports posters, as well as 15 Mather Work Incentive posters, and scarce Hebraic and Judaic posters. There is also a run of rare Russian posters; images advertising tourism to Bermuda, four Winchester hunting posters, and a collection of old-fashioned telephone advertisements. The sale opens with 60 assorted ski posters, among them nine for the annual Dartmouth Winter Carnival, dating from 1936-1961. A 1936 design by Dwight Clark Shepler is the earliest Dartmouth Carnival poster Swann has ever offered. The sunny image of a down-hill skier is advertises Slalom Races, Jumping and Joring for a combined admission of $1.00.
The auction will begin at 1:30 p.m. on Thursday, February 4. The posters will be on public exhibition at Swann Galleries Wednesday, February 3, from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m.; and Thursday, February 4, from 10 a.m. to noon.
An illustrated auction catalogue, with information on bidding by mail or fax, is available for $35 from Swann Galleries, Inc., 104 East 25th Street, New York, NY 10010, or online at www.swanngalleries.com.
For further information, and to make advance arrangements to bid by telephone during the auction, please contact Gwendolyn Rayner at (212) 254-4710 ext. 53, or via e-mail at grayner@swanngalleries.com.

Encompassing the 17th through early 19th centuries, this auction presents elegant English and Continental furniture, decorations, porcelain, sculpture, mirrors, clocks, chandeliers, sconces, tapestries and rugs.
Old Master paintings are highlighted two superb views of ancient Roman monuments by the Italian artist Giovanni Paolo Panini. Also noteworthy is an extensive landscape by Hans Bergaine, an artist who worked in the Netherlands in the early 17th century. Bergaine's work is extremely rare. This work is only the second painting by him to appear in auction in recent years.
The Well-Appointed Room section of the auction comprises almost 200 lots of furniture and decorations from Jonathan Burden, LLC and John J. Gredler Works of Art, and globes and other articles from George Glazer Gallery.

On Thursday, February 11, Swann Galleries will auction the Jerome Shochet Collection of Signed Historical Photographs, which includes many presidential signatures as well as signed portraits of writers, artists and other important historical figures from the 19th and 20th centuries.
Presidential highlights include one of the earliest signed images of any president, a boldly signed carte-de-visite portrait of John Quincy Adams, circa 1825. There is also a seated portrait of Abraham Lincoln by Alexander Gardner, signed "A. Lincoln," as president; a rare, unusually large portrait of Chester Arthur and a photograph of Theodore Roosevelt and his Cabinet, signed by the president and nine other men in the image, Washington, 1906.
In addition, there are signed portraits of President Grant, Hayes, Hoover, Johnson, Nixon, Truman, Franklin Roosevelt, Taft, Wilson and more.
There are also items related to notorious figures involved in presidential assassinations. A signed photograph from John Wilkes Booth, inscribed "Yours affectionately," became one of the most recognizable images of the actor/assassin of Lincoln, 1862-65, and there is also a related item, a signed and inscribed portrait of Boston Corbett, the man who killed Booth. A signed bust portrait of Charles Guiteau, the miscreant who assassinated James Garfield, is also featured, Washington, 1882.
Civil War highlights include a Mathew Brady carte-de-visite of Elmer E. Ellsworth, the first notable casualty of the war, who died while removing the Confederate flag displayed in Alexandria, Virginia; and the last known photo of Robert E. Lee, signed "R.E. Lee" and a signed and inscribed portrait of Jefferson Davis.
The auction will begin at 1:30 p.m. on Thursday, February 11. The Autographs will be on public exhibition Saturday, February 6, from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m.; Monday, February 8 through Wednesday, February 10, from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m.; and Thursday, February 11, from 10 a.m. to noon.
An illustrated catalogue, with information on bidding by mail or fax, is available for $35 from Swann Galleries, 104 East 25th Street, New York, NY 10010, or online at www.swanngalleries.com. For further information and to make advance arrangements to bid by telephone during the auction, please contact Marco Tomaschett at (212) 254-4710, extension 12, or via e-mail at mtomaschett@swanngalleries.com.

On December 16, 2009, Swann Galleries conducted their annual auction of Rare & Important Art Nouveau Posters. The sale offered many prized turn-of-the-century images by European masters of the art form including Jules Chéret, Alphonse Mucha and Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, as well as American artists such as Evelyn Rumsey Cary and Maxfield Parrish.
Nicholas Lowry, Swan Galleries President and Director of the Posters department, said, "At least five world-record prices were set as collectors competed for a host of rare and beautiful graphic images. Perhaps the biggest surprise was the high prices for the Courrier Francais versions of Jules Chéret's posters. Previously unrecorded images also sold quite well."
Those previously unknown images included an early aviation poster by Roger Jourdain, Aérodrome de Vichy, which used silhouettes of a Wright-Ariel biplane and a Voisin biplane to promote a 1909 air show held in Vichy. It sold for $12,000*–an auction record for work by the otherwise unknown artist.
Another previously unknown item was Eugene Grasset's L'Estampe et l'Affiche, a decorative panel depicting a human representation of "the poster" threatening the "cabinet print," to deliver the message that the youthful artistic poster would rejuvenate an art market that had relied too long on classic prints, $3,600.
Among the small-format Courrier Francais versions of Jules Chéret's fanciful posters, two for the Palais de Glace set records; one from the January 28, 1894 supplement, $5,040, the other from March 1, 1986, $5,760. Well-received Chéret images in their original formats were Theatre de l'Opéra/Carnaval, Paris, 1894, which brought $7,800 and Exposition des Arts Incoherents, Paris, 1886, which sold for a record $3,120.
Also setting records were Alphonse Mucha's Lefévre-Utile/Sarah Bernhardt, Paris, 1904, $7,800, and Alfred Choubrac's Nectar Bourguignon, Paris, 1891, $3,360.
Rounding out the European images were two classic posters by Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, which were also the top-priced lots in the auction: Divan Japonais, Paris, 1893, $18,000, and Troupe de Mlle Eglantine, 1896, $26,400.
American highlights included Evelyn Rumsey Cary's Pan-American Exposition/Buffalo, 1901, $7,800, and Woman Suffrage, circa 1905, $5,760; and Maxfield Parrish's The Century/Midsummer Holiday Number, 1897, $4,080.
For complete auction results, the illustrated catalogue and prices realized can be viewed online at www.swanngalleries.com. Catalogues are also available for $35 from Swann Auction Galleries, 104 East 25th Street, New York, NY 10010, with prices realized on request.
For information about upcoming poster auctions, please contact Gwendolyn Rayner at (212) 254-4710, extension 53, or via email at grayner@swanngalleries.com.

On Friday, November 20, Swann Galleries will conduct a two-session auction of American Art and Contemporary Art.
The morning session of American Art comprises 140 paintings and drawings in a wide range of styles. Among the fine drawings are Martin Lewis's Night Windows, pencil, circa 1925 29 (estimate $4000 to $6,000); Hans Hoffman's Untitled, abstraction in color crayons and black ink, 1943 ($12,000 to $18,000); Frederick Remington's Portrait of a Native American, pen and ink and wash, and a sheet of three Benton's Country Store, and wash ($3,000 to $5,000 each). Thomas Hart Benton's Country Store, pen and black ink and brown wash over pencil ($4,000 to $6,000); and Paul Cadmus's Seated Nude, silverpoint, gesso and watercolor, 1988 ($5,000 to $8,000).
Watercolors of note include George Capeland Auff's wonderfully fresh Provincetown, Waterfront, 1921 ($8,000 to $12,000); Edward Borein's Bunny Rucher ($6,000 to $8,000); and James Guy's surrealistic Moon Star Model, gouache on paper, 1940 ($3,000 to $5,000).
Varied oils on canvas or gesso panel include Constantin Wershioffs's Maine Coastal Landscape, 1931 ($5,000 to $8,000), David Burliuk's Van Gogh esque Still Life, Flowers by The Sea ($8,000 to $12,000); Aaron Shikler's nocturnal interior with Figures, circa 1945 ($3,000 to $5,000); and Emilio Sanchez's Cartagena Bus, 1970 ($4,000 to $6,000).
The afternoon session of Contemporary Art offers over 220 prints, drawings, photographs, mixed-media and editioned three-dimensional works by American and European artists working in the mid to late 20th century and beyond.
The selection of Pop Art prints includes Warhols such as A Gold Book, bound volume with 10 offset lithographs, some with hand-coloring, from an edition of 100, 1957 ($10,000 to $15,000), Flowers, offered color lithograph, 1964 ($10,000 to $15,000); Howdy Doody, color screenprint with diamond dust, 1981 (25,000 to $35,000); and four color screenprints from the 1986 Cowboys and Indians portfolio, including Geronimo ($10,000 to $15,000).
Other Pop Art highlights include Roy Lichtenstein's Brushstrokes, color screenprint, 1967 ($10,000 to $15,000); Richard Hamilton's Picasso's Meninas, etching, aquatint, roulette and drypoint from Hommage a Picasso, 1973 ($30,000 to $50,000); Tom Wesselman's From Bedroom Painting #41, color screenprint, 1990 ($7,000 to $10,000); Wayne Thiebaud's Glassed Candy, color lithograph, 1980 ($4,000 to $6,000); and Damien Hirst's Beans & Chips, color screenprint, 1999 ($6,000 to $9,000).
The morning session of the auction, American Art, will begin at 10:30 a.m. on Friday, November 20. The afternoon session of Contemporary Art follows at 2:30 p.m.
The works will be on public exhibition Saturday, November 14 from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m.; Monday, November 16 from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m.; Tuesday, November 17 from 10 a.m. to 8 p.m.; Wednesday, November 18 and Thursday, November 19 from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m.
An illustrated catalogue is available for $35 from Swann Galleries, 104 East 25th Street, New York, NY 10010, and may be viewed online at www.swanngalleries.com.

Swann Galleries' annual auction of Rare & Important Travel Posters on Monday, November 18 offers an unusually large group of British images–more than 45–as well as a broad selection of posters promoting destinations all over the world, and travel via airplanes, ocean liners and trains.
A collection of extremely rare London Underground posters includes Maxwell Ashby Armfield's playful Go to Kew, featuring an upside-down cockatoo, 1915 (estimate $2,000 to $3,000); Charles Paine's endearing representation of penguins in For The Zoo, 1921 ($1,000 to $1,500); Laura Knight's charming view of bathers and boaters, Summer's Joy, 1921 ($1,000 to $1,500); and Edward McKnight Kauffer's Winter Sales are Best Reached by Underground, 1922, and Museum of Natural History/South Kensington ($3,000 to $4,000 each).
A run of scenic horizontal-format posters for British Railways offers two posters promoting Ireland via the Great Southern Rys, both circa 1920, one with a view of Killiney Bay, the other of the seaside village of Glengariff ($1,200 to $1,800 each); Terence Cuneo's posters celebrating the modern locomotive, Signal Success and An Engine is Wheeled, both circa 1955 ($1,200 to $1,800 and $2,500 to $3,500 respectively); and Norman Wilkinson's Loch Awe, circa 1930 ($1,200 to $1,800).
Posters of European destinations include winter-sport images such as Emil Cardinaux's sun-kissed view of the Matterhorn, advertising Zermatt, 1908 ($5,000 to $7,500); and his Palace Hotel/St. Moritz, in which onlookers sit beside an ice rink, 1921 ($10,000 to $15,000); as well as warm-weather attractions including a very rare variant of Ludwig Hohlwein's Sommer in Deutschland, Munich, 1927 ($1,200 to $1,800); one of Leonetto Cappiello's few travel posters, Nice, Paris, 1927 ($7,000 to $10,000); and Marcello Dudovich and Marcello Nizzoli's Venezia Lido, Venice, circa 1930 ($2,500 to $3,500).
The sale concludes with a choice selection of American images, among them a previously unrecorded skiing poster by Willard Frederic Elmes, Ski Jumping/North Shore Line, Chicago, 1928 ($3,000 to $4,000); Walter L. Greene's view of the majestic Storm King mountain, 1928 ($4,000 to $6,000); Leslie Ragan's sunset image of New Union Terminal/Cleveland, 1930 ($2,000 to $3,000); and David Klein's New York/Fly TWA, 1956 ($2,500 to $3,500).
Rounding out the sale are powerful images of speeding trains, and cruising ships from the Cunard, Holland-America and White Star Lines, among others.
The auction will begin at 1:30 p.m. on Wednesday, November 18.
The posters will be on public exhibition on Saturday, November 14, from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m.; Monday, November 16 and Tuesday, November 17, from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m.; and Wednesday, November 18, from 10 a.m. to noon.
A full-color illustrated auction catalogue is available for $35 from Swann Galleries, 104 East 25th Street, New York, NY 10010, and may be viewed online at www.swanngalleries.com.

Sale total: $1,303, 148 with Buyer's Premium Hammer total: $1,085,100
Estimates for sale as a whole: $1,386,300 - $2,011,650
We offered 326 lots, 245 sold (25% buy-in rate by lot)
Top lots, Prices with buyer's premium
28 Eadweard Muybridge, diverse group of 125 plates from Animal Locomotion, collotypes, 1887 $81,000 D
255 Eddie Adams, Saigon (General Nguyen Ngoc Loan executing a Viet Cong prisoner Nguyen Van Lem), silver print, a gift to Adams's son, with letter of provenance, 1968, printed 1980s, $43,200 C
284 Richard Avedon, Rudolf Nureyev, Paris, France, silver print, 1961, printed 1999, $26,400 C
27 Alexander Gardner and Chas Bell, suite of 29 cabinet cards published by The U.S. Geological Survey of the territories, albumen prints, late 1860s-early 1870s, $26,400 D
211 Bert Stern, Marilyn (Crucifix II), chromogenic print, 1962, printed 1990, $24,000 D
152 Horst P. Horst, Mainbocher Corset, Paris, silver print, 1962, printed 1990s, $21,600 C
227 Harry Callahan, Chicago, silver print, 1950, printed early 1970s, $18,000 C
64 Wilson A. Bentley, elegant group of 7 snowcrystals, gold-chloride toned photomicrographs from a glass plate negative, circa 1903-1910, $18,000 C
297 Diane Arbus, Agnes Martin, silver print, 1966, $18,000 C
292 Horst, Round the Clock I, silver print, 1987, printed 1980s, $16,800 C
282 David Bailey, Jean Shrimpton, silver print, 1963-1964, $16,800 C
99 Man Ray, Untitled (rayograph with a screen), silver print after the original rayograph, circa 1922, $15,600 C
42 A spectacular album containing 62 photographs of China, albumen prints, 1880s, $15,600 D
117 Lewis W. Hine, Powerhouse Mechanic (variant), silver print, circa 1926, $15,600 D
21 American portrait collection with more than 115 tintypes, 1860s-1880s, $15,600 C
189 Archive documenting Vladimir Kozmich Zworykin's early experiments with television transmission, including more than 125 photographs, 1930s-1940s, $15,600 C.