Swann Galleries: LGBTQ+ Art, Material Culture & History, 2677, New York

Auction Details

Auction Report
Auction Date
August 22, 2024 - August 22, 2024
Page Size: 446 items in 18 pages

Lot Number Author Name Book Title Place Printed Year Published Estimate Actual Price
1 MANLEY, DELARIVIER "DELIA" (circa 1663-1724)

Secret Memoirs and Manners of Several Persons of Quality of both Sexes. From the New Atalantis, an Island in the Mediteranean.

London: 1709 USD 600.00 - 800.00 USD 594.00
2 JAMES MILLS PEIRCE (1834-1906)

Photograph of a Harvard mathematician whose defense of homosexuality was published in 1897.

[Cambridge, MA], circa 1860s. USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 Not Sold
3 GAUDENZIO MARCONI (1841-1885)

Group of three male physique nude studies.

Circa 1870s. USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 USD 5,250.00
4 JEREMIAH GURNEY & SON (active 1860-1874)

Portrait of the American writer Walt Whitman (1819-1892).

1871 USD 1,500.00 - 2,500.00 Not Sold
5 WALT WHITMAN (1819-1892)

Address panel Signed, addressed in holograph to writer and progressive activist Edward Carpenter:

USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 Not Sold
6 NAPOLEON SARONY (1821-1896)

Portrait of Irish poet and playwrite Oscar Wilde (1854-1900).

1882 USD 3,000.00 - 4,500.00 USD 5,750.00
7 OSCAR WILDE (1854-1900)

Program from the St. James's Theatre first run of his play "Lady Windermere's Fan," with a cast photo.

[London]: 1892 USD 400.00 - 600.00 USD 938.00
8 OSCAR WILDE (1854-1900)

Salome. Drame en un Acte.

London: 1920 USD 350.00 - 500.00 USD 250.00
9 GUGLIELMO PLUSCHOW (1852-1930)

Standing figure with drapery.

1890s-1910s. USD 1,500.00 - 2,500.00 USD 1,430.00
10 WILHELM VON GLOEDEN (1856-1931)

Male figure seated.

Circa 1900-1910. USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 USD 3,250.00
11 WILHELM VON GLOEDEN (1856-1931)

Male figure with floral head wreath.

Circa 1900-1910. USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 USD 4,250.00
12 WILHELM VON GLOEDEN (1856-1931)

Seated figure with flowers on terrace wall.

Circa 1900-1910. USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 USD 2,250.00
13 RENEE VIVIEN (1877-1909)

First edition of Sapho, with an ALS bound-in.

Paris: 1903 USD 300.00 - 400.00 USD 1,625.00
14 ADOLF BRAND (1874-1945) & KONRAD LINKE (Dates Unknown)

Der Eigene: Ein Buch fur Kunst und Manliche Kultur. Vol VI.

Charlottenburg [Berlin]: 1906 USD 800.00 - 1,200.00 USD 1,250.00
15 FRANZ VON BAYROS (1866-1924)

The Abduction of Ganymede by Jupiter.

USD 1,000.00 - 2,000.00 USD 1,430.00
16 EDWARD PERRY WARREN (1860-1928) ARCHIVE

Extensive correspondence of the noted art collector and author of "A Defence of Uranian Love."

Various places 1906-1912. USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 USD 4,750.00
17 CHARLES EVERETT JOHNSON (1866-?)

Miss Simplicity.

1901 USD 800.00 - 1,200.00 USD 875.00
18 JULIAN ELTINGE (1881-1941)

Group of 3 postcards depicting the famed female impersonator.

USD 500.00 - 750.00 USD 625.00
19 JULIAN ELTINGE (1881-1941)

Pair of postcards depicting him in male and female attire for "The Crinoline Girl."

No place, circa 1914 USD 500.00 - 750.00 USD 625.00
20 JULIAN ELTINGE (1881-1941)

Photograph Signed and Inscribed, "A reminder of / Julian / Eltinge," full-length portrait by Albert Witzel,

1918 USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 Not Sold
21 PHOTOGRAPHER UNKNOWN

Photograph of female impersonator Karyl Norman, known as The Creole Fashion Plate.

1923 USD 600.00 - 900.00 Not Sold
22 JOHN C. PAYNE (1872-1952)

Brochure depicting the singer as an impersonator of opera singer Sissieretta Jones, the "Black Patti."

Los Angeles, CA, 21 November 1913. USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 USD 2,250.00
23 LILI ELBE (1883-1931)

Le Mail, Beaugency, France.

1923 USD 3,000.00 - 4,000.00 USD 6,240.00
24 (THE MOST BEAUTIFUL MAN IN THE WORLD)

Painter, sculptor, and dancer Paul Swan with his sculpture of Dr. Robert Underwood Johnson.

1927 USD 700.00 - 1,000.00 Not Sold
25 PAUL SWAN (1884-1972)

Self-Portrait of the artist as a young woman.

Circa 1920s USD 1,500.00 - 2,500.00 USD 8,750.00
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