Auction Records Set for 19th and 20th Century Prints and Portfolios at Swann Galleries

NEW YORK, NY.- On Thursday, April 28 Swann Galleries held an auction of Old Master through Modern Prints that saw active bidding from collectors and dealers in the saleroom and via telephone. As a result, 10 new auction record prices were achieved for individual prints and portfolios. The sale’s top lot was Marc Chagall’s Bible, 1931-39, with 105 etchings, one of 275 numbered copies signed in ink, which sold for $156,000*, a record price for the set without the hand-colored plates. An earlier record was set for the book in Swann’s November 2009 Art, Press & Illustrated Books sale, when it achieved $108,000. Another record-setting set of prints was a copy of Du Cubisme, a portfolio with 11 etchings, engravings and aquatints by Duchamp, Gleizes, Laurencin, Picabia and others, 1947, which sold for $18,000. Also among the featured portfolios in the sale was Das Graphische Werk von Egon Schiele, portfolio with two

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