Sep 20, 2018 - Sale 2485

Sale 2485 - Lot 140

Price Realized: $ 27,500
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 3,000 - $ 5,000
DANTE GABRIEL ROSSETTI
The Embrace.

Pencil on dark brown wove paper. 205x240 mm; 8 1/8x9 1/2 inches.

Ex-collection private collection, Tokyo.

Rossetti (1828-1882) was a British painter, illustrator and poet. In 1848, he formed the Pre-Raphaelite brotherhood, along with fellow artists William Holman Hunt and John Everett Millais. The group sought to reform British art by espousing a return to the intense detail, complex compositions, and vivid colors seen in Medieval and Renaissance art, and went on to significantly influence future generations including the European Symbolists and the Aesthetic Movement.