Swann Galleries: The Artists of the WPA, 2727, New York
Auction Details
- Auction Date
- January 29, 2026 - January 29, 2026
| Lot Number | Author Name | Book Title | Place Printed | Year Published | Estimate | Actual Price |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Designer Unknown | Designer Unknown, USA Work Program, circa 1936. |
circa 1936. | USD 800.00 - 1,200.00 | USD 4,064.00 | |
| 2 | Will Barnet | Will Barnet, Desolation, 1935. |
1935 | USD 1,200.00 - 1,800.00 | Not Sold | |
| 3 | Joseph Biel | Joseph Biel, The Watchman. |
USD 800.00 - 1,200.00 | USD 762.00 | ||
| 4 | Leonard Pytlak | Leonard Pytlak, Keeping Warm, circa 1936. |
circa 1936. | USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 | USD 2,032.00 | |
| 5 | Robert Game | Robert James Malone, Alabama Crap Game, circa 1940. |
circa 1940. | USD 500.00 - 700.00 | USD 762.00 | |
| 6 | Philip Evergood | Philip Howard Evergood, Farmer's Sorrow, 1938. |
1938 | USD 500.00 - 700.00 | USD 561.00 | |
| 7 | Peggy Bacon | Peggy Bacon, Tired Eyes, 1935. |
1935 | USD 600.00 - 800.00 | USD 1,320.00 | |
| 8 | Margaret Bourke-White | Margaret Bourke-White, The American Way of Life (At the Time of the Louisville Flood, Kentucky), 1937; printed 1980s. |
1937; printed 1980s. | USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 | USD 5,842.00 | |
| 9 | Marion Post Wolcott | Marion Post Wolcott, Migrants waiting in line to be paid off for picking cotton, near Mileston, Mississippi, 1939; printed 1978. |
1939; printed 1978. | USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 | USD 1,905.00 | |
| 10 | Seymour Fogel | Seymour Fogel, Untitled, 1940. |
1940 | USD 800.00 - 1,200.00 | Not Sold | |
| 11 | Eli Jacobi | Eli Jacobi, A Nap, 1936. |
1936 | USD 500.00 - 700.00 | USD 528.00 | |
| 12 | Seymour Fogel | Seymour Fogel, New York No. 1, 1936. |
1936 | USD 600.00 - 800.00 | USD 1,651.00 | |
| 13 | Julius Thiengen Bloch | Julius Bloch, Resting, 1930. |
1930 | USD 600.00 - 800.00 | USD 1,079.00 | |
| 14 | Hyman J. Warsager | Hyman Warsager, Preserve the Initiative for Children, circa 1937. |
circa 1937. | USD 500.00 - 700.00 | USD 825.00 | |
| 15 | Rockwell Kent | Rockwell Kent, And Now Where? 1936. |
1936 | USD 800.00 - 1,200.00 | USD 1,651.00 | |
| 16 | Jack Delano | Jack Delano, A family standing in a doorway, 1930s. |
1930s. | USD 800.00 - 1,200.00 | USD 2,540.00 | |
| 17 | Charles Randolph (1930) Pollock | Charles Pollock, Man at the Well, circa 1930. |
circa 1930. | USD 700.00 - 900.00 | USD 1,143.00 | |
| 18 | Joseph (1911) Vogel | Joseph Vogel, Man on Pier, 1934. |
1934 | USD 500.00 - 700.00 | USD 571.00 | |
| 19 | Dorothea Lange | A selection of 4 photographs by Dorothea Lange, Ben Shahn, Arnold Eagle/David Robbins, and Arthur Rothstein, 1935-38; the Lange printed 1970s. |
1935-38; the Lange printed 1970s. | USD 2,500.00 - 3,500.00 | USD 2,286.00 | |
| 20 | Arthur Rothstein | Arthur Rothstein, Son of a Sharecropper, Mississippi County, Arkansas * Sharecropper's child suffering from rickets and malnutrition, Wilson cotton plantation, Mississippi County, Arkansas, 1935. |
1935 | USD 1,500.00 - 2,500.00 | USD 2,794.00 | |
| 21 | Arthur (1929) Lange | A selection of 13 F.S.A. photographs by Dorothea Lange, Arthur Rothstein, and Marion Post Wolcott, as well as 5 unidentified works, circa 1935-40. |
circa 1935-40. | USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 | USD 2,032.00 | |
| 22 | Stevan Dohanos | Stevan Dohanos, Man of the Soil, 1935. |
1935 | USD 800.00 - 1,200.00 | USD 1,206.00 | |
| 23 | Carroll Cloar | Carroll Cloar, Early Arkansan, circa 1940. |
circa 1940. | USD 1,200.00 - 1,800.00 | USD 4,064.00 | |
| 24 | Dorothea Lange | Dorothea Lange, Wife and child of Negro laborer of the Brazos riverbottoms, Texas, June 1938; printed circa 1970. |
June 1938; printed circa 1970. | USD 1,500.00 - 2,500.00 | Not Sold | |
| 25 | Dorothea Lange | Dorothea Lange, Abandoned tenant house seen across tractored fields. Hall County, Texas, June 1938; printed circa 1970. |
June 1938; printed circa 1970. | USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 | Not Sold |
![<b>ALDE, Mar. 11:</b> [REGNART (LE LIVRE DE)]. <i>[Le] Docteur en malice, maistre Regnard, demonstrant les ruzes et cautelles qu'il use envers les personnes…</i> Rouen, 1550. €20,000 - €30,000.](https://ae-files.s3.amazonaws.com/AdvertisementPhotos/ddd3b34c-8abc-4eae-8474-6ea05406ccd0.jpg "<b>ALDE, Mar. 11:</b> [REGNART (LE LIVRE DE)]. <i>[Le] Docteur en malice, maistre Regnard, demonstrant les ruzes et cautelles qu'il use envers les personnes…</i> Rouen, 1550. €20,000 - €30,000.")
![<b>ALDE, Mar. 11:</b> TRITHÈME (JEAN). <i>Polygraphie et universelle escriture cabalistique.</i> Paris, [Benoît Prévost pour] Jacques Kerver, 1561. €8,000 - €10,000.](https://ae-files.s3.amazonaws.com/AdvertisementPhotos/cbc8d1a4-d991-48c7-b788-7554a6774b0e.jpg "<b>ALDE, Mar. 11:</b> TRITHÈME (JEAN). <i>Polygraphie et universelle escriture cabalistique.</i> Paris, [Benoît Prévost pour] Jacques Kerver, 1561. €8,000 - €10,000.")
![<b>ALDE, Mar. 11:</b> VONTET (JACQUES). <i>L’Art de trancher la viande et toute sorte de fruits…</i> S.l.n.d. [probablement Lyon, vers 1647]. €20,000 - €30,000.](https://ae-files.s3.amazonaws.com/AdvertisementPhotos/21ad2e05-5544-44aa-887d-76df423e17af.jpg "<b>ALDE, Mar. 11:</b> VONTET (JACQUES). <i>L’Art de trancher la viande et toute sorte de fruits…</i> S.l.n.d. [probablement Lyon, vers 1647]. €20,000 - €30,000.")
![<b>ALDE, Mar. 11:</b> HUGO (VICTOR). [Paysage spectral avec une église], [vers 1837]. €20,000 - €30,000.](https://ae-files.s3.amazonaws.com/AdvertisementPhotos/dc734df9-0811-477f-919a-2563b8452855.jpg "<b>ALDE, Mar. 11:</b> HUGO (VICTOR). [Paysage spectral avec une église], [vers 1837]. €20,000 - €30,000.")
![<b>ALDE, Mar. 11:</b> [HERVEY DE SAINT-DENYS (LÉON D')]. <i>Les Rêves et les Moyens de les diriger. Observations pratiques.</i> Paris, Amyot, 1867. €3,000 - €4,000.](https://ae-files.s3.amazonaws.com/AdvertisementPhotos/7e769889-43a5-495e-a931-c511da576c2b.jpg "<b>ALDE, Mar. 11:</b> [HERVEY DE SAINT-DENYS (LÉON D')]. <i>Les Rêves et les Moyens de les diriger. Observations pratiques.</i> Paris, Amyot, 1867. €3,000 - €4,000.")
![<b>ALDE, Mar. 11:</b> GACHET (PAUL-FERDINAND). <i>Les Chats de Gachet</i> (Manuscrit). S.d. [avant mai 1873]. €6,000 - €8,000.](https://ae-files.s3.amazonaws.com/AdvertisementPhotos/855dc2c0-17e3-4562-a1cc-2e7265c3769c.jpg "<b>ALDE, Mar. 11:</b> GACHET (PAUL-FERDINAND). <i>Les Chats de Gachet</i> (Manuscrit). S.d. [avant mai 1873]. €6,000 - €8,000.")
![<b>ALDE, Mar. 11:</b> [REDON (ODILON)]. PICARD (EDMOND). <i>Le Juré. Monodrame en cinq actes…</i> Bruxelles, Mme veuve Monnom, 1887. €7,000 - €9,000.](https://ae-files.s3.amazonaws.com/AdvertisementPhotos/b325eb41-450b-4bd6-851c-4125e04dfbe7.jpg "<b>ALDE, Mar. 11:</b> [REDON (ODILON)]. PICARD (EDMOND). <i>Le Juré. Monodrame en cinq actes…</i> Bruxelles, Mme veuve Monnom, 1887. €7,000 - €9,000.")
![<b>ALDE, Mar. 11:</b> [TOULOUSE-LAUTREC (HENRI DE) ET HENRI-GABRIEL IBELS]. MONTORGUEIL (GEORGES). <i>Le Café-concert.</i> Paris, [1893]. €4,000 - €5,000.](https://ae-files.s3.amazonaws.com/AdvertisementPhotos/6588f3a0-90f2-464c-8125-a76866eabe85.jpg "<b>ALDE, Mar. 11:</b> [TOULOUSE-LAUTREC (HENRI DE) ET HENRI-GABRIEL IBELS]. MONTORGUEIL (GEORGES). <i>Le Café-concert.</i> Paris, [1893]. €4,000 - €5,000.")
![<b>ALDE, Mar. 11:</b> [TERRY (EMILIO)]. <i>Projet de fontaine.</i> Dessin original au stylo et à l'encre noire. 1938. €2,000 - €3,000.](https://ae-files.s3.amazonaws.com/AdvertisementPhotos/0840c8e4-4f35-4c95-b2d3-3d5addd6fd51.jpg "<b>ALDE, Mar. 11:</b> [TERRY (EMILIO)]. <i>Projet de fontaine.</i> Dessin original au stylo et à l'encre noire. 1938. €2,000 - €3,000.")