Oct 30, 2013 - Sale 2328

Sale 2328 - Lot 22

Price Realized: $ 27,500
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 30,000 - $ 50,000
ALBRECHT DÜRER
Melencolia I.

Engraving, 1514. 240x187 mm; 9 1/2x7 3/8 inches. A very good, evenly-printed, dark Meder II c impression, with the number "9" corrected in the third row of the number square upper right, with strong contrasts and little to no sign of wear, with the face dark and all the details distinct, with the scratch on the white portion on the thigh but before the scratch across the tip of the comet. Trimmed on the plate mark with thread margins outside the narrow black border line. Bartsch 74; Meder 75.