"En Eva"
Signed Zorn and dated 1902. Canvas 127 x 78.5 cm.
Wrongly stated provenance E. Starwing collection.
Originally acquired directly from the artist by the industrialist Arend N. Versteegh (-1931), Härnösand, Sweden.
Thence by inheritance within the family.
Nordén Auktioner, Stockholm, 19 November 1998, Sale nr 29, lot 203.
Private collection, Sweden.
Kunst-Verein Bremen (year unknown).
Budapest, Hungary, 1903, cat nr 90 (under the title "Eva Nach dem Bade").
Kunst-Salon Ernst Arnold, Dresden, Germany, "Sonderausstellung (72)", 1904.
"Gammalt och Nytt", Uppsala, Sweden, 1906.
The Baltic Exhibition, Malmö, Sweden, 15 May - 4 October 1914, cat nr 125.
Liljevalchs Konsthall, Stockholm, Sweden, "Invigningsutställning. Larsson-Liljefors-Zorn", March - April 1916, cat nr 121.
Liljevalchs Konsthall, Stockholm, Sweden, "Anders Zorn. Minnesutställning", 1 March - 6 April 1924, cat nr 45.
Ernst Malmberg, "Larsson-Liljefors-Zorn", 1919, illustrated in interior photograph from the exhibition at Liljevalchs 1916, page 117, mentioned page108.
Tor Hedberg, "Anders Zorn 1860-1920", SAK, 1923, mentioned page 58-60 and illustrated, "Bild 42" (under the title "Naken kvinna i barrskog"), page 62 (with erroneus information regarding the ownership of the painting).
Gerda Boëthius, "ZORN. Tecknaren. Målaren. Etsaren. Skulptören", 1949, mentioned page 422-423, illustrated full page, Fig. 230 (as executed 1901-02) and catalogued under year 1901, page 550.
Gerda Boëthius, "Zorn. Människan och konstnären", 1960, mentioned page 178.
Anders Zorn, "Självbiografiska anteckningar" (edited by Birgitta Sandström), 2004, illustrated full page in colour, page 260.
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