Oct 30, 2013 - Sale 2328

Sale 2328 - Lot 12

Price Realized: $ 17,500
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 15,000 - $ 20,000
ALBRECHT DÜRER
The Birth of the Virgin.

Woodcut, circa 1503. 298x212 mm; 11 3/4x8 3/8 inches. A brilliant, richly-inked and dark proof impression before the 1511 Latin text edition, with very strong contrasts and no sign of wear. Bull's head watermark (Meder 20a, which he dates from the late 1490s/early 1500s). Trimmed on the outside of the border line with the border line preserved on all four edges. Bartsch 80; Meder 192.