May 21, 2020 - Sale 2537

Sale 2537 - Lot 114

Price Realized: $ 8,750
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 7,000 - $ 10,000
ALBRECHT DÜRER
St. John before God and the Elders.

Woodcut, 1498. 392x278 mm; 15 1/2x11 inches, narrow margins. A brilliant, richly-inked, dark impression from the 1511 Latin text edition, with very strong contrasts and little to no sign of wear. Tower with a crown watermark (Meder 259, which he dates from the late 1400s and cites impressions from the 1511 Latin text editions). From The Apocalypse. Bartsch 63; Meder 166.