Nigel Freeman
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Swann Auction Galleries
New York, NY
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1956 John Wilson "Mother and Child" Lithograph
Biography
Nigel Freeman is the head of Fine Art at Swann Auction Galleries, as well as the director of both the African American Art and Contemporary Art departments. Nigel has worked in the art auction business for over 25 years and founded Swann's African American Art department in 2006.
Each auction has set numerous auction records for important 20th-century artists and introduced many artists to the secondary market. Swann Auction Galleries is the only major auction house with a department dedicated to African American Art.
Freeman entered the auction world as a painter and printmaker after earning a master of fine arts degree from Columbia University in 1991, and a bachelor of arts degree in history and visual art from Brown University in 1989.
Nigel has lectured on the subject of African American art at the Detroit Institute of Arts, the Rhode Island School of Design Museum, the Studio Museum in Harlem and the South Side Community Art Center in Chicago. He has appeared on ANTIQUES ROADSHOW since 2014.
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