Multiple Record Prices at Swann Galleries’ Auction

NEW YORK, NY.- Seven of the top 10 lots in Swann Galleries’ September 16 auction Scenes of the City: Prints, Drawings & Paintings of New York 1900 – 2000 were by Martin Lewis, and all of them set auction records. Lewis’s Shadow Dance, drypoint, 1930, depicting a bevy of lovely young women in cloche hats, walking down the street lit from behind so that the outlines of their figures show through their sheer dresses, sold for $50,400—an auction record for [...]

George Krevsky Gallery Opens Summer Reading Exhibition

SAN FRANCISCO, CA.- The gallery‘s summer show brings together the relationship between the written word and its visual counterpart in a lighthearted yet poignant manner, much like one’s own summer reading. Jeffrey Browning’s photorealist depiction, “Courting Danger”, of tennis ace Alice Marble, is also the title of the former Wimbledon champion’s autobiography. Critically acclaimed writers Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Clifford Odets, and Barry Gifford express themselves visually in another outlet for their creative genius. Ferlinghetti brings James Joyce back to life, Gifford [...]