?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 40,000 - $ 60,000
REMBRANDT VAN RIJN Head of Saskia (Three Heads of Women, One Lightly Etched).
Etching, circa 1637. 112x103 mm; 4 1/2x4 1/4 inches. Biörklund's first state (of 3), with only the head of Saskia on the plate, before the addition of the other two heads; Usticke's first state (e) (of 3); White and Boon's first state (of 3). A superb, well-inked impression of this extremely scarce, early etching.
According to Usticke, "A rare plate, much desired (RR)." Usticke cites only 5 other first state impressions, with the head of Saskia alone, in public collections. We have found only one other first state impression at auction in the past 30 years Bartsch 367; Biörklund 37-3; Hollstein (White and Boon) 367.
