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ANDERS ZORN
1860-1920
J. B. Faure
Signerad, daterad och med dedikation ' To my friend Halsey Ives Chicago 31 Oct 93 / Zorn'. Etsning 23,7 x 16,1 cm, bladets storlek 36,2 x 28,5 cm.

Porträtt av kompositören och operasångaren Jean Baptiste Faure (1830-1914)


Portrait of the composer and opera singer Jean Baptiste Faure (1830-1914)
Signed, dated and dedicated "To my friend Halsey Ives Chicago 31 Oct 93 / Zorn", 237 x 161 mm., sheet size 36.2 x 28.5 cm.

Etat 3 (of 3) Very rare, only 2-5 impressions recorded
Executed in Zorn´s studio in Paris during the autumn 1891

PROVENANCE
Halsey Cooley Ives (1847-1911), gift by the artist in 1893
Andersson Galleries, New York 1931

LITERATURE
Asplund 52, Hjert & Hjert 37, ZG 52


Halsey Cooley Ives (1847-1911), to whom Zorn presented this etching, was the founder of the Saint Louis School and Museum of Fine Arts. The institution later became two distinct bodies, the Saint Louis Art Museum and the Washington University School of Art which includes the Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum. Ives was called to Chicago in 1892 to organize and conduct the art department of the World´s Columbian Exposition, or the Chicago World's Fair as it is often called, that was to take place the following year. The present etching was presented to Ives in conjunction with the fair. A few years later, on a visit to St. Louis, Zorn painted Ives portrait, which today is in the Saint Louis Art Museum (see fig.). Zorn also presented another sample of his etchings to Ives in 1893, a portrait of the American financier and philanthropist Henry Marquand etched in New York the same year. This etching, inscribed "First proof to my friend Ives, affectionately Zorn", was also with the Andersson Galleries, New York in 1931.

Jean Baptiste Faure was one of the greatest art collectors of his time. Edouard Manet´s world famous picture "Un bar aux Folies Bergère" (The Courtauld Institute, London), was one of a great number of impressionist pictures in his collection. Fauré also owned some twenty paintings by Zorn. Zorn was introduced to Faure by the writer, journalist and politician Antonin Proust. In 1891 Zorn painted a portrait of Faure upon which his etching is based, but in the reverse. As a token of their close relationship Faure presented Zorn with Manets´s "Boy peeling a pear", which Zorn in 1896 bequeathed to Nationalmuseum, Stockholm, one of the first impressionist pictures to enter the collection.

Auktionsnummer:

1594

Datum:

2020-12-09