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March 20, 2024Todd WeymanOld Master Through Modern Prints

Auction Highlights: Old Master Through Modern Prints — April 18, 2024

A compelling selection of scarce and desirable prints includes woodcuts, engravings, etchings, lithographs, and screenprints and spans the late fifteenth century through the 1900s.

April 24, 2020 Old Master Through Modern Prints

Beyond the Bestiary: Fantastic Beasts and Figures of Myth in Old Master—and Modern—Prints

Medieval bestiaries were illustrated catalogues of creatures both real and imagined, detailing physical descriptions, origins, and symbolism of each beast that identified the vices and virtues of society. Prolific in the art of the Old Masters, like Albrecht Dürer, these beasts and the symbolism behind them have survived and evolved through the centuries into Modern and Contemporary Art in western culture.

April 23, 2020 Prints & Drawings

Old Master Through Modern Prints

With the largest selection of old master prints to be found at auction stateside, this sale offers an array of fine works, notably special section dedicated to fine old master prints and drawings from the Collection of Matthew Rutenberg. Nineteenth-century works include Mary Cassatt and James Whistler, and Modernists are represented by Erich Heckel, Pablo Picasso, Joan Miró, Jacques Villon.

April 14, 2020 Old Master Through Modern Prints

Meisterstiche: Albrecht Dürer’s Master Engravings

Albrecht Dürer’s Melencolia I, St. Jerome in His Study and Knight, Death and the Devil, all from 1513-14 and related in size, style and technical complexity, have been considered his master engravings (or Meisterstiche) since their…

November 5, 2019 Prints & Drawings

Rembrandt Etching of Pieter Haaring Brings a New Record for the Print

With an offering from the past five centuries, our October 29, 2019 sale of Old Master Through Modern Prints brought collectors exceptional works from key artists and included Rembrandt etchings from the John Villarino Collection.

October 2, 2019 Prints & Drawings

Fall 2019: Old Master Through Modern Prints

Old Master works include early tour-de-force impressions by Francisco José de Goya, Albrecht Dürer, Pieter Bruegel, Antonio da Canal, Il Canaletto and Giovanni B. Piranesi. Further highlights in the art of printmaking from the nineteenth through the twentieth century include works by European and American masters Thomas Hart Benton, Marc Chagall, Salvador Dalí, Martin Lewis and Henri Matisse.