ABSTRACT
On the 29 January 2013 at Christie’s auction house in New York a modest 9¼ x 11¾ inch print was auctioned. Estimated to be valued between US$100,000 and $150,000, it was sold for a staggering US$866,500, the highest ever price for a German Renaissance print. This was no ordinary print but one of the famous rhinoceros prints produced by the artist Albrecht Dürer five centuries earlier, in 1515 (Figure 1.1).
