STOCKHOLM, Sweden, June 8, 2010 /PRNewswire/ -- 26.000.000 SEK excl.commissions (2.600.000 euros) was paid for the masterpiece Sommarnoje by the Swedish artist Anders Zorn at Stockholms Auktionsverk in Stockholm. This is a world record for a Swedish artist and the highest price ever paid at an auction in Sweden.
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This watercolour was painted in 1886 at Dalaro, when Anders Zorn was 26 years old and happily newly married; it is his wife Emma that is depicted on the jetty. Anders Zorn is considered one of the world's foremost watercolour painters and his skills depicting the variations and reflections of the water's surface are unsurpassed in this very difficult technique.
SOURCE Stockholms Auktionsverk
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