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Was Zorn an Impressionist?

Swedish artist Anders Zorn working on his
painting Mora Marknad (The Mora Fair) 1892.

Blog reader Mel Gibsokarton has translated some memoirs of Russian painter Konstantin Korovin, and they included this story of Anders Zorn visiting Russia.

"Zorn, me and Polenov have been invited to an evening to the Knyaz V.M. Golitsyn. It seems that he was the Governor of Moscow at the time. Knyaz himself has arrived and invited Zorn and us. His wife, Sophia Nikolaevna Golitsyna, has been drawing and painting. There were a lot of people at the evening, a lot of high society ladies. They’ve been arriving to look at the famous artist-foreigner.

"At the great round table guests have stationed themselves to drink tea.

"'I tell you, the paintings these days,' one lady said. 'Awful! All brushstrokes and brushstrokes, it doesn’t make sense. Horrible. I have been to an exhibition in Petersburg lately. They said, these are the Impressionists. A haystack is drawn, and, just imagine, blue… Impossible, awful. We have hay, and, I think, everywhere —green, is it not? And his, — blue! And yet more brushstrokes and brushstrokes… A famous, they say, artist- impressionist, Frenchman. It’s god knows what! But you, I’m glad, are not an Impressionist, hopefully, we don’t have them and thank god.'"

"'I see,' Zorn blinks somewhat uneasily. 'Yes. But Velasquez is also an impressionist, my lady,' he said.

"'Really?,' the ladies were surprised.

"'Yes, and he' (Zorn pointed at me) 'is an impressionist.'

"'Don’t you say. Really?' The ladies were surprised again. 'But he painted Sophie’s portrait so smoothly!'

"On the road back home Zorn asked me:

"'Is this the high society? This high society?'

"'Yes,' I said.

"'How strange.'

"Zorn became silent. And the next morning he packed his briefcases and left for his home in Switzerland."

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