Records & Results: Old Master Through Modern Prints

On Tuesday, May 2, we offered Old Master Through Modern Prints, with highlights from as long ago as 1495 and as recent as 1959.

Lot 345: Edward Hopper, Evening Wind, etching, 1921. Sold May 2, 2017 for $118,750.

The top lot of the sale was Edward Hopper’s luminous etching Evening Wind, 1921, which sold to a collector for $118,750. Hopper’s instructor in printmaking, Martin Lewis, was well represented in the sale by a run of New York City scenes for which he is known. The dramatic drypoint Yorkville Night, 1947, was purchased by a collector for $42,500, a record for the work.

Lot 39: Albrecht Dürer, Knight, Death and the Devil, engraving, 1513.
Sold May 2, 2017 for $52,500.

The sale featured an outstanding selection of works by Albrecht Dürer, led by a superb impression of his iconic engraving Knight, Death and the Devil, 1513, which sold for $52,500. Fifteenth-century highlights by the master included the scarce engraving, The Sea Monster, and woodcut The Four Horsemen ($47,500 and $43,750, respectively).

Lot 5: Israel van Meckenem, The Singer and the Lute Player, engraving, circa 1495-1500. Sold May 2, 2017 for $22,500.

A domestic scene by Israel van Meckenem titled The Singer and the Lute Player, circa 1495-1500, was purchased by a collector for $22,500. Executed more than 450 years later, Pablo Picasso’s Bacchannale au hibou, 1959, a dizzying linoleum cut, sold for $21,250.

Lot 423: Pablo Picasso, Bacchannale au hibou, color linoleum cut, 1959. Sold May 2, 2017 for $21,250.

The next sale of Prints & Drawings at Swann Galleries will be Contemporary Art on May 11, 2017. Now accepting quality consignments for Fall 2017.

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