Important Winter Sale presents Anders Zorn

Bukowskis presents "Märta" by Anders Zorn at this season's largest live auction – Important Winter Sale.

In the late 1880s, during his summer visits to Dalarö, Anders Zorn began to depict the naked female body in the sunny archipelago landscape. He came back to this theme, sometimes referred to as "naket i det fria" (nude in the open air), throughout the rest of his career and brought him great success and fame. Around the year 1910, Gerda Boëthius suggests that one can see a revival in Zorn's paintings. She believes that during this time, you can see "a new phase where both subject matter and painting have something new, and the color has acquired a special tone with a preference for pink. In his archipelago paintings, he returned with affection to the subjects of his youth, where water and cliffs are the environment. [...] He filled the canvas with finely distributed tones, planes, values, and form, so that one can 'read his paintings' like a musician reads a score. His color palette is sometimes even more puritanical than in his youth. He often creates lighting effects with scraping or extremely thin paint."

The cosmopolitan Zorn moved far beyond the country's borders and was by no means limited to staying in either Mora or the archipelago. However, this was to change with the outbreak of the First World War. The new global situation led to disruptions in the artist's international relations, which had a significant impact on his life as he became increasingly settled in Mora. The year was now divided with a greater regularity between Mora/Gopsmor, Stockholm, and the archipelago.