Laurits Tuxen

At Skagen Port, 1915

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.

Laurits Tuxen (1853 - 1927)

At Skagen Port

1915

Oil on canvas

27 x 40 cm

Human

Inv.-Nr. 1 TUX 01

Museum Kunst der Westküste

Access 2002

Not on display