Michael Ancher

Two Fishermen from Skagen at the Window in the Grocery Store, 1915

Two fishermen in full working gear – oilskins and sou’westers – gaze out of a window. The incoming daylight illuminates their faces and upper bodies and sets them apart from the otherwise barely lit room. The play of light on the smooth surface of their oilskin jackets is captured in rough brushstrokes, but their facial features are rendered in rich detail. Their faces frozen in concentration, the two men are staring intently at what is happening outside: everyday village life, the weather or ho...

Signatur und Datierung: Michael Ancher // 15., unten links, Öl auf Leinwand

(...); Kunsthandel, Dänemark (2018); MKdW (2018).
10 Jahre MKdW – Meisterwerke, hrsg. von Ulrike Wolff-Thomsen, Ausst.-Kat. Museum Kunst der Westküste, Alkersum/Föhr, Köln 2019, Kat. 40.

Michael Ancher (1849 - 1927)

Two Fishermen from Skagen at the Window in the Grocery Store

1915

Oil on canvas

100 x 93 cm

Human

Inv.-Nr. 2 ANC 07

Museum Kunst der Westküste

Access 2018

Not on display