Lot 173 | PROPERTY OF A EUROPEAN PRIVATE COLLECTOR ANDERS ZORN SWEDISH, 1860-1920 SMÅLÄNDSKA (GIRL FROM
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PROPERTY OF A EUROPEAN PRIVATE COLLECTOR ANDERS ZORN SWEDISH, 1860-1920 SMÅLÄNDSKA (GIRL FROM SMÅLAND)
signed and dated Zorn / 1916 l.r.
oil on canvas
EXHIBITED
Liljevalchs Konsthall, Anders Zorn, Bruno Liljefors, Carl Larsson, 1916, no. 117
CATALOGUE NOTE
Work was Zorn's best retreat during the years following the outbreak of the First World War. With the possibility of international exchange with artists and patrons increasingly difficult, he isolated himself for weeks at a stretch, either in the wild country of Gopsmor outside Mora, or other remote regions of Sweden.
Longing for his boat and the sea, every year he would spend time in his treasured Stockholm archipelago. The present work, which he titled Småländska, may have been painted there, using a model from Småland in South Sweden, or else in the lakelands of Småland itself.
Småländska epitomises the gusto and vitalism with which Zorn depicted the nude en plein air. His strong feeling for the solidity of forms, enhanced by his work as a sculptor, gradually led to an evolution towards an increasingly sculptural conception of the human body in his paintings.
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