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Anatomy of an Artwork: Women Outside the Sidi Abderrahman Mosque by Anders Zorn

Discover Swedish artist Anders Zorn’s mastery of watercolour in this depiction of a famous Algerian mosque, painted on his honeymoon in 1887. ‘Women Outside the Sidi Abderrahman Mosque, Algiers’ is a highlight of The Orientalist Sale (24 April, London) at Sotheby’s.

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