Jul 16, 2020 - Sale 2541

Sale 2541 - Lot 100

Price Realized: $ 188
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 300 - $ 400
ALBERT STERNER.
"Some of the execution there is astonishing. But all the same I don't see you earning your bread-and-butter at portrait-painting; and I guess you don't either." Story illustration for Fenwick's Career by Mrs. Humphry Ward [Mary Augusta Ward] (London: Smith, Elder & Co., 1906). Charcoal with small strokes of white gouache on board. 557x390 mm; 22x15 1/2 inches. Signed "Alb. Sterner" in lower right image, dated 1905 with illegible faded notation in upper left image.