albrecht-durer-ger-1471-1528-period-woodcut
Lot 547
Albrecht Dürer (Ger., 1471-1528), Period Woodcut
Lot Details & Additional Photographs
"The Angel With the Key to the Bottomless Pit," from the Apocalypse, a scene from Revelation 20:1, presented with a mat in a gilt-edged wooden frame, the backing with a loan label from the St. Petersburg (FL) Museum of Fine Arts and stamped "Thymolized and sealed on 15 Dec 71 by St. Armands Gallery Inc."

Sheet 15 3/8 x 11 in.; DOA 23 x 18.25 i

Ex. Sotheby's "Catalogue of Fine Old Master Engravings, Etchings and Woodcuts," 23rd November, 1971, Lot 68. This woodcut referenced as "B. 75; M., Holl.178" and described as "a very good impression (without text as always) on paper without watermark, a few pinholes near the top edge." The consignor notes that Sotheby's scheduled this sale for the 500th anniversary of Dürer's birth. The Private Collection of a Lady

Not examined out of the frame.

$8,000 - 12,000