NEW YORK, NY.- Parisian haute couture from 1930 will be back in fashion in the Fine Books & Manuscripts auction at Swann Auction Galleries on October 10.

These designs come straight from the pages of Croquis Parisiennes: Dress Edition for the Spring / Summer Season, a bound volume of fashion sketches by the Atelier Bachwitz that features 180 lithographic fashion plates with hand-colouring.

The estimate is $3,500 to $5,000.

The sale also includes a selection of works from the Sackner Archive, a collection of more than 75,000 annotated volumes, artists’ books, book objects, periodicals, drawings, print portfolios, ephemera and manuscripts that is due to find a permanent home at the University of Iowa Libraries Special Collections.

The archive represents the creative pinnacle for many significant artists and poets working in the genre, alongside documentation that reveals their processes, with preparatory notes, letters and studies. The vast majority of this material will be available to scholars and the public in January 2020 at the University of Iowa Libraries Special Collections.

The books selected for auction at Swann Galleries includes portfolios by notable American artists and writers, foundational European Avant-Garde material, sculptural works and artists’ books that celebrate the vast range of language-based artworks and push the boundaries of what gets defined as a book. At turns humorous and sublime, kitschy and contemporary, these works were selected by our specialists as a representative offering of an outstanding collection.

Other highlights in the sale include works by Arthur Rackham, Jean Cocteau and Pablo Picasso and William Blake’s early 19th century masterpiece, The Book of Job.

The complete catalogue and bidding information and live online bidding details are available at www.swanngalleries.com