An old woman is seated at a plain, elegant table in a sun-bathed room. Leaning on her forearms and pinching her eyebrows into a deep frown, she writes meticulously in the notebook in front of her. Aside from the open inkwell and other writing utensils, we see a bible and a luxuriant bouquet of flowers on the mirror-smooth tabletop. The furniture arrangement is peculiar. It seems almost as if the elderly lady on her chair is wedged between the table and the wall and that the main subject of the p...
Signatur und Datierung: A Ancher. 1910, unten rechts, handschriftlich
Lucas Haberkorn: Anna Ancher 1859–1935, in: Kunst und Küste. Ausgewählte Werke der Sammlung Kunst der Westküste, hrsg. von Thorsten Sadowsky, Alkersum/Föhr 2013, S. 36, Abb. S. 37. 10 Jahre MKdW. Meisterwerke, hrsg. von Ulrike Wolff-Thomsen, Ausst.-Kat. Museum Kunst der Westküste, Alkersum/Föhr, Köln 2019, S. 189, Kat. 61.