Swann Galleries American Prints & Drawings

Swann Galleries opened the fall season on Thursday, September 19 with a marathon sale of 19th & 20th Century Prints & Drawings earning more than $2M.

Works by Martin Lewis proved popular with collectors. Of the 16 works offered nearly all found buyers, and five works reached among the top 20 overall.

Highlights included



Martin Lewis, Men Working on Elevated Train Tracks, Looking at Airplane in Sky, circa 1919—the rare early etching made its auction debut at $42,500;



Martin Lewis, Glow of the City, drypoint, 1929, brought $40,000;



and Martin Lewis, Little Penthouse, drypoint, 1931, earned $23,750.



Further American artists featured Edward Hopper’s 1922 etching East Side Interior, which reached $47,500;



George Bellows’s Dempsey and Firpo, lithograph, 1923-24, acquired by an institution at $37,500;

and a 1951 complete set of 22 drypoints by Elie Nadelman which earned $22,500.