ANDERS ZORN
Augustus Saint-Gaudens, I.
Etching, 1897. 200x135 mm; 8x5¼ inches, wide margins. Second state (of 2). Signed in pencil, lower right. A very good impression of this scarce etching. We have found only 11 other impressions at auction in the past 30 years.Zorn's (1860-1920) portrait of his friend, the American sculptor Saint-Gaudens (1848-1907). The two artists met at the Chicago World's Fair in 1893 and became fast friends and colleagues. They shared similar ebullient lifestyles and well-heeled, society patrons. Zorn frequently visited Saint-Gaudens’s studios in both New York and Paris; the sculptor is seen in this etching in his artist's smock in the studio. Delteil 112; Asplund 113; Hjert/Hjert 175.