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Property from a Private Family Collection

Albrecht Dürer

Coat of Arms with a Skull (Bartsch 101; Meder, Hollstein 98; Schoch, Mende, Scherbaum 37)

Live auction begins on:

April 14, 04:00 PM GMT

Estimate

50,000 - 80,000 USD

Bid

45,000 USD

Lot Details

Description

Property from a Private Family Collection

Albrecht Dürer

1471 - 1528

Coat of Arms with a Skull (Bartsch 101; Meder, Hollstein 98; Schoch, Mende, Scherbaum 37)


engraving on laid paper with a Small Jug watermark (Meder 158)

a very good, silvery Meder Ic impression, printing with three-dimensionality and good contrasts, particularly in the wings and scrollwork, with touches of burr on the wings

sheet: 8 ¾ by 6 ⅜ in. 223 by 161 mm.

Executed in 1503.

Acquired in the Netherlands in the 1930s

Thence by descent