Oct 17, 2024 - Sale 2682

Sale 2682 - Lot 54

Price Realized: $ 18,750
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 20,000 - $ 30,000
REMBRANDT VAN RIJN
Self-Portrait, Frowning: Bust.

Etching, 1630. 72x60 mm; 2⅞x2⅜ inches, thread margins. Biörklund's third state (of 3); Usticke's second state (of 2), an early impression in this state, with the two parallel horizontal lines in the top part of the hair and above the head still distinct; White and Boon's third state (of 3); New Hollstein's third state (of 3). A very good impression of this extremely scarce etching. Bartsch 10; Biörklund 30-M; Hollstein (White and Boon) 10; New Hollstein 68.

According to Usticke, "A very scarce portrait, rarely fine (RR-)."

We have found only 16 other impressions at auction in the past 30 years.