Live Auction 254719th Century European Paintings
Anders Zorn (Swedish, 1860-1920)
Lot 50

Anders Zorn (Swedish, 1860-1920)

Portrait of a Lady in a Drawing Room

Closed23 April 2012

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USD 146,500

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Anders Zorn (Swedish, 1860-1920)
Portrait of a Lady in a Drawing Room
signed, inscribed and dated 'Zorn/London 21 Oct. 87' (lower right)
pencil, watercolor and bodycolor heightened with white on paper
26½ x 19½ in. (67.3 x 49.5 cm.)

Charles Deering, 1925.
Mrs. Richard E. Danielson, Jr., Santa Barbara.
Butterfield & Butterfield, San Francisco, 15 December 1997, lot 5080.
Acquired at the above sale by the present owner.

Specialist note

It has been suggested by Birgitta Sandström that the sitter could either be a Mrs. Black or Mrs. Turner, wife of General Turner, both of whom were painted by Zorn in October 1887.