Oct 29, 2014 - Sale 2363

Sale 2363 - Lot 45

Price Realized: $ 3,250
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 1,500 - $ 2,500
HANS BALDUNG GRIEN
Christ as the Man of Sorrows.

Woodcut, 1507. 163x125 mm; 6 1/2x5 inches, thread margins. From Ulrich Pinder, Speculum Passionis Domini Nostri Ihesu Christi. Ex-collection Mary Emerson Lovejoy Olds Kirkpatrick, Massachusetts, ink stamp verso (not in Lugt). A superb impression with strong contrasts.

There is another impression of this very scarce woodcut in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, The Elisha Whittelsey Collection, accession number 62.650.218.