World Record for Swedish Painting

STOCKHOLM, June 8, 2010 - 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.

(Photo: www.newscom.com/cgi-bin/prnh/20100608/394782 )

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.

For more information please contact: Anna Hamilton, Head of PR & Communication, Email: anna.hamilton at auktionsverket.se, Ph: +46(0)8-453-67-84