?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 30,000 - $ 50,000
REMBRANDT VAN RIJN Self Portrait with Long, Bushy Hair: Head only.
Etching, circa 1631. 65x62 mm; 2 3/4x2 1/2 inches, thread margins. Biörklund's fourth state (of 6), after the reduction of the plate; Usticke's fourth state (of 7); White and Boon's fourth state (of 7). A very good, dark and well-inked impression of this extremely scarce, early etching with strong contrasts and no sign of wear.
We have found only 5 other impressions at auction in the past 30 years. The most recent impression, similar in quality to the current work, sold at Swann, November 3, 2016, sale 2429, lot 104 ($52,500).
According to Usticke, "A very rare, small portrait, always delicate, before the heavy rerworking in the late states." Bartsch 8; Biörklund 31-9; Hollstein (White and Boon) 8.
