Nov 03, 2016 - Sale 2429

Sale 2429 - Lot 31

Price Realized: $ 16,250
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 8,000 - $ 12,000
ALBRECHT DÜRER
St. Christopher.

Woodcut, 1511. 215x215 mm; 8 1/2x8 1/2 inches, thread margins. A superb, richly-inked Meder a impression, with no sign of wear and with very strong contrasts, consistent with the earliest impressions of this subject. Bear watermark (Meder 89, which he dates to circa 1510-30 and cites for the earliest impressions of this subject). Ex-collection Franz Jozef von Enzenberg (Lugt 845, verso). Bartsch 103; Meder 223.