Auction Highlights: Old Master Through Modern Prints — April 18, 2024 Catalogue & Bidding Hieronymus Bosch (After), The Temptation of St. Anthony, engraving, 1561. Estimate $8,000 to $12,000 A compelling selection of scarce and desirable prints includes woodcuts, engravings, etchings, lithographs, and screenprints and spans the late fifteenth century through the 1900s. Leading the sale are Old Master prints by the perennial quadrumvirate: Dürer, Rembrandt, Piranesi, and Goya, among which are Dürer’s much sought-after engravings Adam and Eve, 1504; and an early, lifetime impression of Rembrandt’s The Pancake Woman, etching and drypoint, 1635, and others. Select Rembrandt etchings come from a private London collection, as well as etchings by Piranesi from his renowned Carceri and Vedute di Roma series, and first editions from Goya’s Los Caprichos.The auction continues with a stellar group of nineteenth-century prints by the likes of James A. M. Whistler, the Impressionists and Post-Impressionists—including Renoir, Degas, Cassatt, Théophile Steinlen, Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec and others—as well as an important Winslow Homer etching, Perils of the Sea, 1888. Modern American and European prints round out the auction, with notable representation by Edward Hopper, Rockwell Kent, Gustave Baumann, Thomas Hart Benton, Stuart Davis, and Milton Avery, along with many others. Leading the European modernists is Picasso’s groundbreaking, career-establishing Le Repas Frugal, etching and drypoint, 1904. Additional European modern highlights include prints by Matisse, Miró, Paul Klee, Chagall, Käthe Kollwitz, Dalí and M. C. Escher. Pablo Picasso, Le Repas Frugal, etching and drypoint. Estimate $70,000 to $100,000 Hans Baldung Grien, Group of Seven Horses, woodcut, 1534. Estimate $10,000 to $15,000 Maurits C. Escher, Circle Limit IV (Heaven and Hell), woodcut, 1960. Estimate $25,000 to $35,000 Albrecht Dürer, Adam and Eve, engraving, 1504. Estimate $20,000 to $30,000 Paul Signac, La Bouée (Saint-Tropez: Le Port), color lithograph, 1894. Estimate $10,000 to $15,000 Francisco José De Goya, Modo de Volar, aquatint and etching, circa 1824. Estimate $7,000 to $10,000 Rembrandt van Rijn, Self Portrait Frowning: Bust, etching. Estimate $20,000 to $30,000 Winslow Homer, Perils of the Sea, etching, 1888. Estimate $40,000 to $60,000 Marc Chagall, Sacrifice aux Nymphes, color lithograph, 1961. Estimate $8,000 to $12,000 Keep in Touch Sign-up for Email Updates Download the Swann Galleries App Share Facebook Twitter March 20, 2024Author: Todd WeymanCategory: Old Master Through Modern Prints Tags: Albrecht Durer Albrecht Dürer bosch Francisco Goya Francisco José de Goya Hans Baldung Grien Hieronymus M. C. Escher Marc Chagall Maurits C. Escher Old Master Drawings Old Master prints Old Master through Modern Prints Pablo Picasso Prints & Drawings Prints and Drawings Rembrandt Rembrandt Van Rijn Winslow Homer Previous Auction Highlights: Fine Books — April 11, 2024 Next Auction Highlights: Modern & Post-War Art — May 2, 2024 Recommended Posts Fall 2019: Old Master Through Modern Prints Prints & Drawings October 2, 2019 Records & Results: 19th & 20th Century Prints & Drawings 19th & 20th Century Prints & Drawings March 8, 2019 A Brief History of the Color Woodcut 19th & 20th Century Prints & Drawings February 26, 2020