Anders Zorn Etchings
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I/I

017

Grandmother II (III)

1884

165 x 115 mm


Three consecutive etchings depict the artist's grandmother. The watercolour of the same name "Mormor" from 1883 served as a model.


Catalogues:

Schubert-Soldern 11 »Mormor. Die Grossmutter«

Loys Delteil 19 »Mormor (La grand’mère de l’artiste) I«

Karl Asplund 18 »Grandmother III« 

Hjert & Hjert 16 »Mormor III« 

Sven Lidbeck 18 »Grossmutter III«

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Only one state known.


Delteil 19

Asplund 18

H&H 16

Lidbeck 18

Watercolour

Anders Zorn,

Grandmother,

Watercolour 1883,

24 x 17 cm,

Zorn Collection Mora

Reassignment

The Swedish art historian Karl Asplund made a mistake when cataloguing the three plates, which was to be repeated in all subsequent publications.

The illustration he labelled "Grandmother I" in the 1920 catalogue actually shows the first state of the third and last plate "Grandmother III".

Loys Delteil published the correct classification in his 1909 catalogue. If one places the work catalogued by Asplund as "Grandmother I" over the second state of "Grandmother III" with a black background (coloured green here), it becomes clear that both impressions were printed from one and the same plate.

A print from the destroyed plate from Mora was used for the montage shown on the left.

Loys Delteil (1909)

D18 – Mormor I

D19 – Mormor II

D20 – Mormor III

Karl Asplund (1920)

A16 – Grandmother I

A17 – Grandmother II

A18 – Grandmother III

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