Property from the Estate of Paul Sperry
Albrecht Dürer
Melencolia I
Auction Closed
July 2, 07:08 PM GMT
Estimate
100,000 - 150,000 GBP
Lot Details
Description
Property from the Estate of Paul Sperry
Albrecht Dürer
Nuremberg 1471–1528
Melencolia I
engraving on laid paper without watermark as called for by Meder for early impressions
1514
a fine, bright and silvery Meder IIa impression, printing with great clarity and luminous contrasts
sheet: 240 x 186 mm.; 9⅜ x 7¼ in.
Sophie Rosenwald Adler, (1871–1955); not in Lugt;
Thence by descent.
J. Meder, Dürer-Katalog, Vienna 1932, no. 75;
A. Bartsch, The Illustrated Bartsch, W.L. Strauss (ed.), New York 1981, no. 74;
R. Schoch, et al., Albrecht Dürer: Das druckgraphische Werk, Munich 2002, no. 71.
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