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Wartime #propagandaposters form a strong section of our #VintagePosters sale which includes images from #WWI, #WWII, #TheGreatDepression and the #GermanPeaceCouncil. Featured here is a circa 19...

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Our #VintagePosters’ exhibition is now open! Stop by the galleries to view our most extensive selection of automobile advertisements to date. Including #AHori’s circa 1925 #ArtDeco poster ad...

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So you’ve fallen in love with a #vintageposter. It’s been beckoning you from the corner of your favorite antique shop for weeks, or perhaps it’s calling to you from the pages of one of our ...

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Featured in our August 7 sale of #VintagePosters is a rare selection of four advertisements for the first #BolivarianGames by #SergioTrujilloMagnenat. The images are characterized by the artist�...

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Happy Friday! ☀️☀️🌦 #Zdinak’s circa 1960 ad for #Bermuda and #PanAm is coming to auction August 7. On view beginning August 1. #SwannGalleries #SwannPosters #posters #vintagepos...

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With the newly opened @PosterHousenyc museum as a backdrop, we spoke with Specialist @lagoldberg in our Vintage Posters Department about, well, what else—posters! Visit the link in our bio to l...

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A rich offering of #ArtNouveau features in our #VintagePosters sale on August 7 and includes works by luminaries #JulesChéret, #AlfredChoubrac, #JulesAlexandreGrün, #AlphonseMucha, #ThéophileA...

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#JohnHeartfield’s 1955 work for the #GermanPeaceCouncil calling for an end to nuclear weapons features in out #VintagePosters sale on August 7. 🐍🌍🐍🌍🐍 On view beginning Augst 1. ...

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Attempting to cope with the New York #heatwave. ☀️☀️☀️ Coming to our #VintagePosters sale August 7. #SwannGalleries #SwannPostes #ReneGruau #posters #nyc https://ift.tt/2y1gKOS

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Today marks the 50th anniversary of #Apollo11’s moon landing on July 20, 1969. 🌕🌖🌗🌘🌑🌒🌓🌔 Since the first lunar landing 50 years ago, we have mapped the surfaces of the M...

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SPRING HIGHLIGHTS: Magazine cover designs were highly sought-after in our June sale of #IllustrationArt. #LeeBrownCoye’s #acrylicpainting for the 25th-anniversary issue of #WeirdTales reached $...

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SPRING HIGHLIGHTS: In 1958 #DorotheaLange and her husband, #PaulSchusterTaylor, traveled extensively for eight months, visiting twelve countries. Despite the poverty and trauma Lange saw througho...

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SPRING HIGHLIGHTS: In March we offered what has been called, “The finest edition of #DonQuixote that has ever been printed.” The first Ibarra edition of #Cervantes’ most recognizable work r...

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SPRING HIGHLIGHTS: Our March sale of Printed & Manuscript African Americana was led by volume one, number one of “The Mirror of Liberty,” July 1838, the first black periodical published in th...

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SPRING HIGHLIGHTS: Among the rarities offered in our February sale of #VintagePosters was a 1927 poster for the #Stockholm premiere of #JosephineBaker’s silent film “La Sirène des Tropiques....

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SPRING HIGHLIGHTS: #AttilioSalemme’s “Rivalry,” 1945, sold in #AmericanArt auction in June for a record $21,250. #SwannGalleries #oiloncanvas #modernart #americanartist #abstractart https...

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SPRING HIGHLIGHTS: 215 years ago today #AaronBurr and #AlexanderHamilton engaged in the now infamous duel that resulted in #Hamilton’s death. 📜📜📜 Featured here is a 1793 autograph let...

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SPRING HIGHLIGHTS: Our March sale of 19th & 20th Century Prints & Drawings offered Property from the Ismar Littmann Family Collection of German Expressionism and European Avant-Garde, including #...

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SPRING HIGHLIGHTS: #IanFleming’s #JamesBond was the star of our May 19th & 20th Century Literature sale. We offered a selection of 13 first editions including a copy of “Goldfinger,” which ...

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SPRING HIGHLIGHTS: A 1776 autograph letter signed from Joseph Brant, Thayeadanegea, the leader of the Mohawk people and military, and British Loyalist, brought $35,000 in our March sale of #autog...

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