Old Master Through Modern Prints: April 28, 2022 Auction Highlights
Old Master Prints
The rich assortment of top quality Old Master prints includes many lifetime impressions by Albrecht Dürer, Rembrandt van Rijn, Giovanni B. Piranesi and Francisco José de Goya, as well as an array of fine examples by artists such as Pieter Bruegel, Hendrick Goltzius, Claude Lorrain, Antonio Canaletto, and the German “Little Masters”: Albrecht Altdorfer, Hans Sebald Beham, Heinrich Aldregrever and Georg Pencz. Highlights include Dürer’s The Nemesis, engraving, circa 1501, and Canaletto’s View of a Town on a River Bank, etching, circa 1740.
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Nineteenth Century Prints
Also on offer is a selection of exquisite prints by nineteenth-century artists including Henri Toulouse-Lautrec, Pierre-Auguste Renoir, James A. M. Whistler, Mary Cassatt, Paul Gauguin and Rodolphe Bresdin, with highlights including Renoir’s color lithograph Baigneuse, debout, en pied, 1896, and Toulouse-Lautrec’s color lithograph Le Jockey, 1899, two of the quintessential fin de siècle color prints.
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Modern American Prints
The modern American prints section abounds with masterworks by John Singer Sargent, Childe Hassam, George Bellows, Martin Lewis, Thomas Hart Benton and Grant Wood, including a rarely-seen at auction Head of Young Woman, lithograph, 1871, by Sargent, and Wood’s ethereal Sultry Night, lithograph, 1939.
Modern European Prints
Completing the auction is an extraordinary selection of Modern European prints by many of the most sought-after 20th century artists, including Georges Braque, Sonia Delaunay, Henri Matisse, Joan Miró, Max Beckmann, Lyonel Feininger and Marc Chagall. There is a wonderful impression of Braque’s first print, Étude de Nu, etching, 1907-08, as well as the very scarce Étude de nu renversé, etching, 1929, by Matisse.
Estimate $20,000 to $30,000.