Oct 27, 2010 - Sale 2227

Sale 2227 - Lot 488

Price Realized: $ 1,800
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 1,500 - $ 2,500
ANDERS ZORN
Mme Simon II.

Etching printed in dark brownish black on cream laid paper, 1891. 234x156 mm; 9 1/4x6 1/4 inches, full margins. Fourth state (of 4). Signed in pencil, lower right. Ex-collection Jules Gerbeau (Lugt 1166, lower right recto). A superb, richly-inked impression with crisp, inky plate edges.

A large edition of 1100 impressions of this etching appeared, unsigned, in the German publication Pan. Pencil-signed proofs such as this are extremely scarce. Delteil 66; Asplund 67; Hjert/Hjert 46.