NEW YORK, NY.- Swann Galleries’ Thursday, May 26 sale of Modern & Post-War Art is set to present a broad scope of artistic movements including modernist selections from the collection of gallerist Gary Snyder, and introducing a dedicated portion of Latinx art to the sale’s collecting categories.

Selections From the Gary Snyder Collection form the cornerstone of the modernist lots on offer with works by American Abstract Artists group members, Museum of Non-Objective Painting exhibitors, and Indian Space painters. Highlights include a run of drawings and watercolors by Joseph Stella, two tempera paintings by Ethel Magafan: Near Monarch ($3,000-5,000), and Trout Stream ($2,500-3,500), as well as works by Wolf Kahn and Louis K. Stone.

Latinx art is represented by Jaime Vazquez, Oscar Satio Oiwa, Nitza Tufiño, Carlos Osorio and Lina Puerta among many others. Highlights include Vasquez’s The Survivor, acrylic on canvas, 2022 ($25,000-35,000); Satio Oiwa’s triptych Light Birds, oil on canvas, 1997 ($12,000-18,000); Osorio’s 1969 abstract work in pencil and watercolor ($1,500-2,500); two 2019 mixed-media assemblage sculptures from Puerta’s Botanico series ($1,000-1,500, each); and a study by Tufiño for subway murals commissioned the New York City Transit Authority ($3,000-5,000).

Complimenting the Latinx art offering is a selection of Latin-American and Caribbean artists including Tilsa Tsuchiya and Manuel Mendive. Of note is Tsuchiya’s mythical 1979 oil-on-canvas painting which calls to mind a pre-Columbian goddess, as well as Western images of Venus and lounging female nudes ($150,000-250,000), and Fantasy II, a 1971 ink and watercolor evoking the same imagery. Mendive is on offer with Ofrendas del Mar, acrylic on canvas, 2002 ($8,000-12,000), and la Ofrenda de Yemaya, acrylic on royal palm trunk, 2004 ($8,000-12,000). Also featured is Mathias Goeritz, Francisco Zuñiga, and Miguel Florido.

American abstraction includes Judith Rothschild with Nauset Heights, oil on canvas, 1968 ($8,000-12,000), a 1970 oil-on-canvas- work in bursts of citrus by John Opper ($10,000-15,000); and a 1985 oil-and-collage geometric abstraction by Robert Lee Neal ($7,000-9,000). The auction will also feature exceptional sculpture works by Shinkichi Tajiri, Dorothy Dehner, David Hayes, and more.

Exhibition hours are 12 p.m to 5 p.m from May 23 through May 25.