Original art from SIEGFRIED AND THE TWILIGHT OF THE GODS

by Arthur Rackham, Richard Wagner

$36,000 · Offered by Type Punch Matrix

Signed

n.p. n.p, 1911. Signed original watercolor by Rackham created for his illustrated edition of Wagner's SIEGFRIED, beautifully matted and framed. Fine. Item #35240 The image shows the Wanderer and the Dwarf; the former has challenged the dwarf to answer a second riddle in order to save his life, a scene not coincidentally reminiscent of Gollum and Bilbo in Tolkien's book THE HOBBIT. A tremendous piece, richly colored and

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