The seventh iteration of Swann Galleries’ LGBTQ+ Artwork, Materials Tradition & Historical past public sale on Thursday, August 21, options an thrilling collection of twentieth and Twenty first-century high quality artwork, pictures, and ephemera from the neighborhood’s most outstanding artists, authors, style makers, and activists. “I’m thrilled to be in my second year at the helm of this sale,” stated Corey Serrant, the Affiliate Director of Swann’s LGBTQ+ division. “This year’s offering will include a selection of works from the estate of notable LGBTQ+ rights advocate Dr. Charles Silverstein, with the proceeds of these works benefitting the NYC LGBT Community Center.”
The sale is led by a 1987 Hugh Steers oil-on-canvas portrait of Carl George, a buddy and collector who labored freelance alongside Steers for the New York-based florist and celebration planner Michael Fenner. Executed in George’s kitchen between April and Could of 1987, earlier than Steers’s prognosis with HIV, the artist utilized a lighter palette to painting his sitter. George was the primary collector to accumulate Steers’s work and picked up a set of oil works on paper over time.
The Swann Galleries public sale additionally consists of high quality artwork and pictures by Beauford Delaney, Glenn Ligon, Robert Mapplethorpe, Laura Aguilar, Iké Udé, and Jimmy DeSana in addition to illustration artwork from the leather-based neighborhood, together with works by Tom of Finland, The Hun, Domino, and Rex. Necessary manuscripts, archives, and books include a big archive of lesbian pulp fiction books, a big collection of physique pictorials, and a primary version of James Baldwin’s Giovanni’s Room (1956).
A piece of works has been generously donated by the Property of Dr. Charles Silverstein. Proceeds from the sale of these things will profit the NYC LGBT Neighborhood Middle. Dr. Silverstein (1935–2023) was an American author, therapist, and LGBTQ+ rights advocate who was finest recognized for his 1973 graduate pupil presentation to the American Psychiatric Affiliation, which led to the elimination of homosexuality as a psychological sickness from the group’s Diagnostic and Statistical Handbook. He additionally penned the textual content The Pleasure of Homosexual Intercourse in 1977. Highlights from the property’s providing embrace works by Deni Ponty, Michael Leonard, and Bruce Kamerling.
View the LGBTQ+ Artwork, Materials Tradition & Historical past public sale catalogue.
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