International studio (59.1916)

RECENT ETCHINGS BY ZORN


“GULLl” (1914)

BY ANDERS ZORN

Of the earlier work of Anders Zorn as an etcher
numerous examples have appeared in these pages
or in our Special Numbers from time to time, and
now by the courtesy of Messrs. P. and D. Colnaghi
and Obach we are privileged to reproduce a few
further examples which the eminent Swedish artist
has produced within the last ten years. The nine
plates of which reproductions are here given have
been selected from a collection recently exhibited
at Messrs. Colnaghi and Obach’s galleries in New
Bond Street—a collection embracing the majority
of the plates which have issued from the artist’s
hands during the period named, only one of them
—a portrait of Betty Nansen, the famous Danish
actress—being dated anterior to 1906. The entire

series as there presented was of exceptional interest,
both on account of the variety of subject-matter
dealt with, and especially as showing that with the
lapse of years (it is now more than thirty years
since Zorn made his first experiments as an etcher
in England under his fellow-countryman Axel
Haig) there is no abatement of those intrinsic
qualities which have made the artist’s proofs so
eagerly sought after by collectors. The portraits
in common with the interesting and sympathetic
studies of Swedish peasant types are remarkable for
the power of characterisation which they disclose,
while in those open-air studies in which the nude
model is the principal motif the artist’s rare gift of
rendering the human form is proclaimed.
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