May 06, 2021 - Sale 2566

Sale 2566 - Lot 29

Price Realized: $ 1,625
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 1,500 - $ 2,500
HANS SEBALD BEHAM
St. Christopher.

Woodcut, circa 1528. 302x217 mm; 12x8 5/8 inches, narrow margins. Ex-collection Peter Gallatly (Lugt 1185, verso; according to Lugt, Gallatly's auction, at Gutekunst, Stuttgart, May 13-18, 1911, included a collection of 77 lots by Beham); and William Edwin Rudge, Woodstock, Vermont. A very good impression of this extremely scarce woodcut.

We have found only 3 other impressions at auction in the past 30 years. Bartsch App. 16 (as Dürer); Pauli 892.