?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 4,000 - $ 6,000
HANS BALDUNG GRIEN Sleeping Groom and a Sorceress.
Woodcut, 1544. 340x201 mm; 13 1/2x8 inches. Ex-collection Wilhelm Heinrich Ferdinand Karl von Lepell (Lugt 672, verso); and Kupferstichkabinett der Staatlichen Museen, Berlin (Lugt 1606, verso). With thread margins or trimmed on the black border line, with the border line preserved all around. A good, dark impression of this extremely scarce woodcut.
We have found only 6 other impressions at auction in the past 30 years. Bartsch 15; Hollstein 237; Mende 76.
