Swann’s semi-annual African American art sale was held last week with strong result denoting a recovery in this market which Swann has pioneered. All but one of the top ten lots in the $1.26m sale went to collectors with one going to a dealer.

1. (71) Elizabeth Catlett, Untitled (Standing African-American Woman), 1967 $108,000
2. (142) Romare Bearden, Tidings, circa 1973 $96,000
3. (74) Beauford Delaney, Le Balayeur,, 1968 $96,000
4. (140) Bearden, The Stubborn Old Lady, 1971 $72,000
5. (1) Robert Scott Duncanson, Untitled (Landscape), circa 1860-65 $45,600
6. (34) Norman Lewis, Crossing, oil on canvas, 1948 $43,200
7. (141) Bearden, Ritual Bayou, 1971 $43,200
8. (2) Charles Ethan Porter, Sunflowers, early 1880s $36,000
9. (62) Alma Thomas, Untitled (Abstraction in Blue), 1964 $36,000
10. (29) Lewis, Untitled (Policeman Beating an African-American Man),  1943 $33,600