girls from dalarna having a bath mk247
c.1908,oil on canvas,33.125x19.875 in,84x50 cm,nationalmuseum ,stockholm ,sweden new20/Anders Zorn-979346.jpgPainting ID:: 56399
Swedish 1860-1920
Swedish painter, etcher and sculptor. He was brought up by his grandparents at Mora. As he displayed a precocious talent for drawing he was admitted to the preparatory class of the Kungliga Akademi for de Fria Konsterna, Stockholm, at the age of 15. Dissatisfied with the outdated teaching and discipline of the Academy and encouraged by his early success as a painter of watercolour portraits and genre scenes (e.g. Old Woman from Mora, 1879; Mora, Zornmus.) Zorn left the Academy in 1881 to try to establish an international career. He later resided mainly in London but also travelled extensively in Italy, France, Spain, Algeria and the Balkans and visited Constantinople. However, he continued to spend most of his summers in Sweden.
Girls from Dalarna Having a Bath Girls from Dalarna Having a Bath, 1906