Spanning from Old Master engravings to Contemporary editions, our print specialists present exceptional works on paper by history’s most significant printmakers with premier examples of printmaking.
Top sales include $93,750 for Winslow Homer’s Perils of the Sea, 1888, in April 2024; James A. M. Whistler’s Nocturne, 1879-80, for $282,000 in October 2010, still the record price for a Whistler print sold at auction; $173,000 in October 2013 for Albrecht Dürer’s St. Jerome in His Study, 1514. In November 2017, we achieved the record for any print by Edward Hopper: $317,000 for The Lonely House, 1923. Additionally, in November 2023, we sold the highest price achieved for an M.C. Escher woodcut: $293,000 for Coast of Amalfi (Composition), 1934. The department also holds the top four records for any print by Martin Lewis.
