Anna Ancher

Small Girls with a Cod, n. d.

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...

Signatur: A Ancher., unten links, handschriftlich

Privatbesitz Klæbel, Kopenhagen; Privatbesitz, Dänemark (bis 2009); Kunsthandel, Dänemark (2009); MKdW (2009).
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.

Anna Ancher (1859 - 1935)

Small Girls with a Cod

n. d.

Oil on canvas

81 x 63.5 cm

Human

Inv.-Nr. 2 ANA 02

Museum Kunst der Westküste

Access 2009

Not on display