Four children are gathered expectantly on a threshold, while the view to the rear opens up into a brightly lit kitchen. The older children, two girls wearing large headscarves tied under the chin, are clutching a cod, its mouth gaping wipe. It is a sizeable catch they are presenting. Their father may just have brought it home from the sea.
Anna Ancher demonstrates her remarkable observational skills with this seemingly unselfconscious everyday scene: The children’s facial expressions – all of wh...
10 Jahre MKdW. Meisterwerke, hrsg. von Ulrike Wolff-Thomsen, Ausst.-Kat. Museum Kunst der Westküste, Alkersum/Föhr, Köln 2019, Kat. 68. Anna Ancher – Sonne. Licht. Skagen, hrsg. von Ulrike Wolff-Thomsen, Ausst.-Kat. Museum Kunst der Westküste, Alkersum/Föhr, Köln 2022, Kat. 11, S. 58.