Nov 03, 2022 - Sale 2620

Sale 2620 - Lot 265

Price Realized: $ 1,250
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 1,500 - $ 2,500
ANDERS ZORN
Augustus Saint-Gaudens, I.

Etching, 1897. 200x135 mm; 8x5 1/4 inches, wide margins. Second state (of 2). Signed in pencil, lower right. A very good impression of this scarce etching.

We have found only 11 other impressions at auction in the past 30 years.

Zorn's (1860-1920) portrait of his friend, the American sculptor Saint-Gaudens (1848-1907). The two artists met at the Chicago World's Fair in 1893 and became fast friends and colleagues. They shared similar ebullient lifestyles and well-heeled, society patrons. Zorn frequently visited Saint-Gaudens's studios in both New York and Paris; the sculptor is seen in this etching in his artist's smock in the studio. Delteil 112; Asplund 113; Hjert/Hjert 175.