Swann Galleries Autographs
MAY 4
Preview: May 1 to 3, 10-6;
May 4, 10-noon
104 East 25th St,
New York, NY 10010

tel 212 254 4710
www.swanngalleries.com
Specialist: Marco Tomaschett • mtomaschett@swanngalleries.com
Thomas Hart Benton, Autograph Manuscript, a draft of
The Mechanics of Form Organization in Painting,
with sketches, 1926. Estimate $20,000 to $30,000.
Thomas Je. erson, Partly-printed vellum Document Signed, as President, countersigned by
Secretary of State James Madison, February 1809. Estimate $4,000 to $6,000.
Ernest Hemingway, Autograph Letter Signed “Love / Mr. Papa,” to
Marlene Dietrich, Cuba, 1952. Estimate $20,000 to $30,000.
Alexis de Tocqueville, Autograph Letter Signed, in French, on the
terms for the publication of his Democracy in America, 1837.
Estimate $10,000 to $15,000.
Elliott Erwitt, photograph of John F. Kennedy &
Dwight D. Eisenhower, signed by both, circa 1960.
Estimate $10,000 to $15,000.
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky, Autograph Musical Quotation Signed, London, 1888.
Estimate $7,000 to $10,000.
Graphite drawing of Albert Einstein, signed by him and the
artist, S.N. Swamy, 1950. Estimate $7,000 to $10,000.
John Adams, Partly-printed Document Signed, as President, countersigned by Secretary
of State Timothy Pickering, June 1798. Estimate $4,000 to $6,000.
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