00:00Okay.
00:30What makes this painting unique is that it is not only van Dyck's earliest grand-scale
00:49depiction of a lone horse, but on the reverse, there is his only surviving landscape study.
00:56And then you've got a bank and then there's water here and there's actually, there's a
01:09lovely detail here where you've got the horse. It's a horse, it's a dog.
01:13Well, yeah, that's an interesting way of thinking about it. And given that the horse is vertical
01:25and the landscape on the reverse is horizontal, it's certainly something that you could hang
01:31and enjoy the horse and then you could turn it around and, you know, the other way and enjoy
01:38the landscape. And yeah, you do have, you have both options.
01:55So I think there should be broad demand. We've already had it on view in Paris, where it's been
02:01widely admired. And something like this is going to appeal to both private collectors and
02:06institutions. So it could end up anywhere.
02:25It totally depends on the quality. The question we always ask when we
02:55look at old master prints is how early were they printed? Are they really lifetime works?
03:01Because in some instances, his copper plates survived him by hundreds of years and were
03:08printed later on. So what we're always looking for is early works which were really printed
03:14by Rembrandt in his workshop at his time.
03:55Everything that we've included in this sale has been included because it's a great rarity,
04:16because it's of the highest quality. As I say, with the June Bible, it's thought to be one of
04:20just 10 that still exist. In terms of its popularity, of course, the recent film and TV
04:27adaptations do help. But of course, at the centre of all visualisations of the June universe is what
04:36Hodorovsky had planned. He has been an inspiration to Denis Villeneuve and others that have adapted
04:43June into cinema.
05:14Well, Harry Potter is always popular. It appeals to not only my generation that was growing up
05:22alongside Harry, but those immediately before and after me as well. And of course, its rarity
05:31only continues to get greater and greater. Only 500 copies of the first edition were ever printed,
05:37300 of which went straight to libraries and were often read into a state of disrepair.
05:43So it gives you a total of about 200 that might be in lovely order.
05:48And this is a particularly beautiful copy.
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