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ALBRECHT DÜRER (1471-1528)
Melencolia I
engraving, 1514, on laid paper, without watermark, a fine, warm Meder IIa impression, very clear and with intense contrasts, the figure's face printing very darkly (as called for by Meder in early impressions)
Plate & Sheet 240 x 189 mm.
Provenance
Kupferstichkabinett, Kunstmuseum Basel (Lugt 222b).
Morris Schapiro (early 20th Century), Baltimore (Lugt 1918bis); his sale, Parke-Bernet Galleries, New York, 16 January 1945, lot 67.
Literature
Bartsch 74; Meder, Hollstein 75; Schoch Mende Scherbaum 71
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