Property from a Private Family Collection
Albrecht Dürer
The Sea Monster (Bartsch 71; Meder, Hollstein 66; Schoch Mende Scherbaum 21)
Auction Closed
April 14, 05:19 PM GMT
Estimate
40,000 - 60,000 USD
Lot Details
Description
Property from a Private Family Collection
Albrecht Dürer
1471 - 1528
The Sea Monster (Bartsch 71; Meder, Hollstein 66; Schoch Mende Scherbaum 21)
engraving on laid paper
a superb Meder a impression, printing with depth, luminous contrasts, exceptional definition and rich burr
sheet: 9 ⅞ by 7 ⅜ in. 250 by 187 mm.
Executed circa 1498.
Ex coll. Dr. Wilhelm August Ackermann (L. 791)
Ludwig Yorck von Wartenburg (L. 2669)
Acquired in the Netherlands in the 1930s
Thence by descent