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
engr💟aving on laid paper without watermark as called for bꩲy Meder for early impressions
1514
ꦰa 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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