Danish artist Carl Locher devotes this work to the dunes around Skagen, painting them in bright sunshine beneath a clear blue sky, with only a few puffy clouds. The play of light and shadow in the undulating elevations and hollows, the dune grass and the luminous pale sand transform the uniform and barren landscape into a richly contrasted study of the coastal strip. Despite the obvious proximity to the water – evidenced not least by the weathered wreckage of a dinghy in the foreground – the art...
Signatur: Carl Locher., unten rechts, handschriftlich
Kunsthandel, Dänemark (2002); MKdW (2002).
Ulrich Thieme/Felix Becker: Allgemeines Lexikon der bildenden Künstler von der Antike bis zur Gegenwart, Leipzig 1999, Bd. 23, S. 305. [Weiterführende Literatur] Knud Voss: Die Maler des Lichts. Nordische Kunst auf Skagen, Weingarten 1995.