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Zorn and his Wife.

  • ARTIST: Anders Zorn

  • MEDIUM: Etching and Drypoint,

    DATE: 1890.

  • EDITION SIZE: Edition 40-50. Image size12 3/8 x 8 1/4" (317 x 211 mm).

  • DESCRIPTION: This self-portrait is among the most ambitious of Zorn’s etching’s in technique and composition. The composition derives from Rembrandt’s Self-Portrait with his Wife Saskia, but Zorn has placed the couple in an interior, which accentuates the chiaroscuro (light/dark). This is among Zorn’s most elaborate studies of artificial light. – E.Broun <br><br>

  • ADDITIONAL INFO: Signed in pencil.

  • CONDITION: Very good condition, wide margins.

  • REFERENCE: H&H 31, Asplund 43.