Tony Swain

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Irish | 1967

Tony Swain is an Irish Postwar & Contemporary artist who was born in 1967. Numerous key galleries and museums such as The Modern Institute, Osborne Street have featured Tony Swain's work in the past.Tony Swain's work has been offered at auction multiple times, with realized prices ranging from 255 USD to 1,625 USD, depending on the size and medium of the artwork. Since 2007 the record price for this artist at auction is 1,625 USD for Blossom Into Heavy Weight, sold at Phillips New York in 2011. Tony Swain has been featured in articles for , and . The most recent article is written for MOUSSE Magazine in August 2015.

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Untitled ,2002

By Tony Swain

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Untitled ,2002

By Tony Swain

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Untitled, 2002

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Past Exhibitions

Tony Swain: Dilemma To Rely On

Gallery Baton

Seoul | South Korea

25 Apr, 2024 - 25 May, 2024

Brilliant Cut

Gallery Baton

Seoul | South Korea

12 Jul, 2023 - 12 Aug, 2023

Tony Swain: Sight Deserted

The Modern Institute, Osborne Street

Glasgow | UK

18 Nov, 2022 - 14 Jan, 2023

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Tony Swain 鈥淭he Shorter Alphabet鈥� and Urs Fischer 鈥溾垶鈥� at The Modern Institute, Glasgow

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鈥� ..He is known for paintings depicting complex private worlds painted over newspaper pages, the newsprint providing both the physical ground and the conceptual starting point of each painting... 鈥�
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The Fruitmarket Gallery

鈥� ..Fragments of the newspaper survive, transformed and transfigured by their inclusion in Swain鈥檚 painted world... 鈥�
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The Fruitmarket Gallery

鈥� ..While occasional details of the newsprint and images survive, most are transformed by their inclusion within Swain鈥檚 painted world... 鈥�
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BALTIC Centre for Contemporary Art

黑料不打烊

Tony Swain

At Auction

Notable Lots

Untitled ,2002

Compass Concoction Bearings ,2005

Untitled ,2002

Recent Auction Results

Untitled ,2002

Untitled ,2002

Untitled, 2002

Past Exhibitions

Tony Swain: Dilemma To Rely On

Brilliant Cut

Tony Swain: Sight Deserted

Articles

Tony Swain 鈥淭he Shorter Alphabet鈥� and Urs Fischer 鈥溾垶鈥� at The Modern Institute, Glasgow

10 Opening Exhibitions to Watch

Visual art reviews: John Goto, Mosaic | Tony Swain, Afterwards in Pictures | Maximilian Zentz Zlomovitz, Rape Me

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