Old Master Through Modern Prints at Swann Galleries May 6
NEW YORK, New York
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Albrecht Dürer, The Birth of the Virgin, woodcut, circa 1503. Estimate $15,000 to $20,000.
Claude Monet & George W. Thornley, Paysage avec une anse dans un arbre, color lithograph, 1894. Estimate $5,000 to $8,000.
Thursday, May 6 at
Swann Galleries. Prints feature in the sale, from Northern Renaissance and Golden Age icons Dürer and Rembrandt to Impressionist collaborations, European Modernists, and American printmakers.
Old Master prints open the sale with engravings, woodcuts, etchings and drypoints by both well-known and lesser-known printmakers whose images have stood the test of time. Highlights include an intricate run of etchings by Rembrandt van Rijn with
Rembrandt, Monet, Picasso & more in Old Master Through Modern Prints at Swann Galleries
Claude Monet & George W. Thornley, Paysage avec une anse dans un arbre, color lithograph, 1894. Estimate $5,000 to $8,000.
NEW YORK, NY
.- Old Master Through Modern Prints are at auction Thursday, May 6 at Swann Galleries. Prints feature in the sale, from Northern Renaissance and Golden Age icons Dürer and Rembrandt to Impressionist collaborations, European Modernists, and American printmakers.
Old Master prints open the sale with engravings, woodcuts, etchings and drypoints by both well-known and lesser-known printmakers whose images have stood the test of time. Highlights include an intricate run of etchings by Rembrandt van Rijn with Joseph Telling his Dreams, 1638, leading the selection at $30,000 to $50,000. Also by Rembrandt is Landscape with an Obelisk, circa 1650, expected at $20,000 to $30,000; and The Holy Family, circa 1632, at $15,000 to $20,000. Albrecht Dürer is on offer with
Country Dance by Guido Reni is back in Cardinal Scipione Borghese s collection
Guido Reni, Country Dance. Photo: C. Giusti.
ROME
.-The Galleria Borghese announces its acquisition of the painting Country Dance (c. 1601-02). After a series of intensive studies, the restoration of its attribution to Guido Reni (Bologna 1575-1642) together with its documented provenance from Cardinal Scipione Borgheses collection constitutes one of the most important and unexpected discoveries of the last few years.
In addition to its art-historical value, its documented provenance from Scipione Borgheses collection enables us to add an important detail to the fundamental matter of the relations between the Borghese family and Guido Reni. The cardinal wanted to make Reni his court painter, considering him after the death of Annibale Carracci the most important artist in Rome. The Borghese family, in the person of Pope Paul V, entrusted him with the frescos of The Pauline Chapel i
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