C.G. Boerner
Since its foundation in Leipzig in 1826, C.G. Boerner has been an art dealer specialising in prints and drawings of the highest quality. Its offices are located in Düsseldorf and New York. C.G. Boerner works with museums and private collectors worldwide. Its reputation is based on an intimate knowledge of Old Masters such as Schongauer, Dürer, Baldung, Cranach, Rembrandt, van Ostade, Bellange, Nanteuil, Piranesi, Goya, etc., prints and drawings of the German Romantics, the European Masters of the 19th century and the German expressionists. The Gallery also regularly has works by American printmakers, including Whistler, Edward Hopper, Martin Lewis and George Bellows.
Artists presented at the Paris Print Fair
ANDREA ANDREANI
HANS BALDUNG
JACQUES BELLANGE
GIULIO BONASONE
ALBRECHT DÜRER
GIORGIO GHISI
HENDRICK GOLTZIUS
MARTIN LEWIS
GOYA
REMBRANDT
JAMES MCNEILL WHISTLER
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Rembrandt Harmensz. van Rijn 1606 Leiden – Amsterdam 1669
Death Appearing to a Wedded Couple from an Open Grave, 1639
drypoint and etching; 109 x 78 mm
Bartsch 109, White/Boon only state; Hind 65; New Hollstein 174, only state
Provenance :
William Bell Scott, London (Lugt 2607);
his sale, Sotheby’s, London, April 20, 1895, lot 701
Alfred Gabriel Hubert, Paris (Lugt 130);
his sale, Drouot (exp. A. Danlos), Paris, May 25–29, 1909, lot 702, described as “Superbe épreuve d’une pièce que l’on trouve généralement faible; petite marge. Col.on Scott”
Richard Zinser, Stuttgart and New York (Lugt 5581); by descent
N.G. Stogdon, cat. 7: Oh Happy State …!, New York, 1989, no. 33
Joost Ritman (b. 1941), Amsterdam (acquired in 1989)
Artemis Fine Arts, Ltd./Sotheby’s, London, by 1995
private collection, US (acquired in 2004)
Although the themes of love and death were very popular in seventeenth-century Dutch art, the motifs were usually disguised. This very direct confrontation harks back to such earlier representations as Dürer’s Promenade (Meder 83). Accordingly, the figures themselves are clothed in sixteenth-century costume and seem to be amused rather than frightened by the skeleton before them. Courtesy C.G. Boerner
Martin Schongauer ca. 1450 Colmar – Breisach 1491
Ornament with Parrots and Birds, before 1474
engraving; 108 x 154 mm
Bartsch 114; Lehrs and Hollstein 109 only state
exhibited
Prints 1400–1800: A Loan Exhibition from Museums and Private Collections, The Minneapolis Institute of Arts/The Cleveland Museum of Arts/The Art Institute of Chicago, 1956–57, cat. no. 52
A superb impression of this extremely rare print, even showing touches of burr in the most darkly shaded areas. Hollstein (1999), the most recent census, records twelve impressions (this one included as the only one still in private hands). In fine condition, with thread margins on three sides and trimmed on the plate-mark at right. Courtesy C.G. Boerner
James Abbott McNeill Whistler 1834 Lowell, Massachusetts – London 1903
The Dyer, 1879–80
etching and drypoint on laid paper; 306 x 240 mm
signed in pencil on the tab with the butterfly and inscribed “imp”
Kennedy 219; Glasgow 192 before the first state (of 10)
Provenance :
Louisine and Henry O. Havemeyer, by descent to their daughter
Adaline Havemeyer Frelinghuysen, by descent to her son
The Honorable Peter H.B. Frelinghuysen, by descent to his son
Peter Frelinghuysen, by descent to his wife
Barrett Frelinghuysen
A very fine impression that is remarkable not just for its quality and esteemed provenance. It furthermore represents a newly discovered and previously unknown state that is earlier and all impressions that were previously known. It might easily be the first pull taken from the finished plate. Courtesy C.G. Boerner
Albrecht Dürer 1471 – Nuremberg – 1528
Der Reuter – Knight, Death and Devil, 1513
engraving; 244 x 188 mm
Bartsch 98; Meder 74 a? (of g); Schoch, Mende, and Scherbaum 69. Courtesy C.G. Boerner