Nov 03, 2015 - Sale 2396

Sale 2396 - Lot 234

Price Realized: $ 16,250
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 10,000 - $ 15,000
ALBRECHT DÜRER
The Four Angels Holding the Winds.

Woodcut, 1498. 397x285 mm; 15 5/8x11 1/4 inches, narrow to thread margins. A superb, dark and richly-inked proof impression before the 1498 and 1511 text editions, with the single, short break in the borderline lower left (strengthened with pen and ink by a later hand) and with very strong contrasts. From the Apocalypse. Bartsch 66; Meder 169.