Laurits Tuxen turns his gaze to the bustling harbour in Skagen on a bright and friendly summer’s day. Both women and men are working on the boats and their equipment, repairing, mending and getting them ready to sail out. A group of two women and a man are placed at the centre, mending the ropes. Other figures are gathered around a trolley in the middle ground, while the bright blue sea stretches out in the background, enclosed by the twilight sky.
Tuxen works with light brushwork that eschews d...
Signature and date: LT 15
Inscription: Tuxen // 1915 Skagen, upper backside
Label: Skagens Kunstudstilling 1915 (...) Nr. 103 // Fra Skagen Havn, backside
Label: Lundqvist & Olsen, lower backside
Kunsthandel, Dänemark (2002); MKdW (2002).
Katrin Petersen: Laurits Tuxen 1853–1927, in: Kunst und Küste. Ausgewählte Werke der Sammlung Kunst der Westküste, hrsg. von Thorsten Sadowsky, Alkersum/Föhr 2013, S. 282, Abb. S. 283. [Weiterführende Literatur] Mette Bøgh Jensen/Tine Nielsen Fabienke: Tuxen – Colour, Contryside and Crown, Ausst.-Kat. Skagens Museum/Fuglsang Kunstmuseum, Guldborgsund, Aarhus 2014.