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Estimate: $ 2,000 - $ 3,000
ANDERS ZORN Effet de Nuit III.
Etching printed in black on cream laid paper, 1897. 303x200 mm; 12x8 inches, wide margins. First state (of 3), before the plate edge is bevelled. Signed in pencil, lower right. A brilliant, richly-inked impression of this extremely scarce etching, with crisp, inky plate edges.
We have found only 2 other impressions at auction in the past 20 years.
Like Tissot and Helleu, the Swedish artist Zorn (1860-1920) was a popular portrait painter at the turn of the century, while at the same time a careful observer of everyday life in his numerous etchings of bathing nudes, working women and genre scenes. He was active during the 1880s in London, becoming increasingly more sought after for his luminous, Impressionist portraits. Zorn and Whistler met at the artists'colony at St. Ives, Cornwall, during this time.
Whistler's influence on Zorn is evident in his direct, draughtsman-like approach to etching, which Whistler displayed from the 1850s onward in works like Soupe â Trois Sous (lot 47) and Bibi Lalouette (lot 51). These etchings have an immediacy equivalent to pen and ink sketches drawn from life. Asplund 111; Hjert/ Hjert 188.
