Apr 28, 2016 - Sale 2412

Sale 2412 - Lot 185

Price Realized: $ 15,000
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 12,000 - $ 18,000
HANS BALDUNG GRIEN
Sleeping Groom and a Sorceress.

Woodcut, 1544. 340x201 mm; 13 1/2x8 inches, narrow margins. A superb, richly-inked and early impression of this extremely scarce woodcut, with little to no sign of wear.

We found fewer than 10 other impressions at auction in the past 30 years. Bartsch 15.