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Death and three nude Women
Details
HANS SEBALD BEHAM (1500-1550)
Death and three nude Women
engraving, circa 1540, on laid paper, without watermark, a very good impression of the third, final state, trimmed to or just inside the borderline above, with thread margins above, the upper left corner made-up in pen and ink. an oblong horizontal crease, a tiny, skilfully repaired hole on the buttock of the woman in the foreground, a few nicks at the upper sheet edge, the sheet slightly toned, otherwise in good condition
Plate 77 x 54 mm., Sheet 78 x 55 mm.
Death and three nude Women
engraving, circa 1540, on laid paper, without watermark, a very good impression of the third, final state, trimmed to or just inside the borderline above, with thread margins above, the upper left corner made-up in pen and ink. an oblong horizontal crease, a tiny, skilfully repaired hole on the buttock of the woman in the foreground, a few nicks at the upper sheet edge, the sheet slightly toned, otherwise in good condition
Plate 77 x 54 mm., Sheet 78 x 55 mm.
Provenance
Gustav Seeligmann (b. 1921), New York (Lugt 1215).
Literature
Bartsch 151; Pauli, Hollstein 152
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