Anna Ancher

Interior with a Seated Young Woman with Pinned-up Hair, n. d.

This small bust portrait shows a young woman in three-quarter view, engrossed in her sewing in front of a light grey background. Rusty red, greyish-blue and ochre are the colours that Anna Ancher used most frequently and which dominate this intimate study as well. Dim light falls on the face of the sitter, casting a faint shadow on her temples and chin. The artist places a narrow grey stripe on the woman’s carefully parted hair as a discreet reflection of light. It also recurs in her aesthetical...

Signatur und Datierung: unsigniert und undatiert

Helga Ancher (1883–1964, Skagen-Malerin und Tochter der Künstlerin, bis 1966); Nachlassauktion Helga Ancher, Kopenhagen (1966); Privatbesitz, Dänemark (bis 2002); MKdW (2002).
[Weiterführende Literatur] Anna Ancher – Sonne. Licht. Skagen, hrsg. von Ulrike Wolff-Thomsen/Museum Kunst der Westküste, Ausst.-Kat. Museum Kunst der Westküste, Alkersum/Föhr, Köln 2022.

Anna Ancher (1859 - 1935)

Interior with a Seated Young Woman with Pinned-up Hair

n. d.

Oil on canvas

31.5 x 19.7 cm

Human

Inv.-Nr. 1 ANA 02

Museum Kunst der Westküste

Access 2002

Not on display