May 02, 2017 - Sale 2445

Sale 2445 - Lot 39

Price Realized: $ 52,500
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 50,000 - $ 75,000
ALBRECHT DÜRER
Knight, Death and the Devil.

Engraving, 1513. 241x186 mm; 9 1/2x7 3/8 inches. A superb, richly-inked and dark Meder a-b impression with very strong contrasts and clarity, with little to no sign of wear, consistent with early impressions of this subject. Ex-collection Wilhelm August Ackermann (Lugt 791, verso). Trimmed on the plate mark. Bartsch 98; Meder 74.