Oct 29, 2019 - Sale 2522

Sale 2522 - Lot 10

Price Realized: $ 6,250
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 6,000 - $ 9,000
ALBRECHT DÜRER
The Opening of the Fifth and Sixth Seal.

Woodcut, 1496-98. 390x280 mm; 15 3/8x11 1/8 inches, thread margins. A very good, dark, well-inked impression from the 1498 Latin text edition with strong contrasts, with the middle portion of the composition distinct and with no breaks in the border line, consistent with the earliest impressions. From the Apocalypse. Bartsch 65; Meder 176.