P. S. Krøyer (b. Stavanger 1851, d. Skagen 1909)
“Skagen Nordstrand. En grøn Baad i Strandkanten. To Fiskere sidde i Baaden, to læne sig frem til dens Ræling. Paa langs i Baaden en Baadshage, paa tvers to Aarer ud i Sandet”. Skagen Nordstrand. A green boat on the beach. Two fishermen in the boat, two leaning forward to the railing. Along the boat a boat hook, across two oars out into the sand. Signed and dated S. Krøyer Skagen 91. Oil on panel. 31 × 41 cm. Empire frame with acanthus leaves. Remains of Damborg label.
H. Chr. Christensen, A Catalogue Raisonné of the Works of P.S. Krøyer, 1923, no. 482.
Exhibited: Winkel & Magnussen April 1911 no. 20, ill. p. 7. Winkel & Magnussen November 1911 no. 32, ill. p. 3. Winkel & Magnussen in Odense June 1914 no. 101, ill. p. 10. Charlottenborg, “Mindeudstilling for P.S. Krøyer 1851–1951”, 1951 no. 165. ARKEN, “Skagensmalerne - i nyt lys”, 2008 no. 80, ill. p. 92.
Provenance: Presumably bought by director Edvard Rée after 1914. The estate auction of Edvard Rée, 1st part, October 1918 no. 58. Auction in Studenterforeningen 28. February. 1925 no. 64. Shipbroker Hjalmar Bruhn. Bruun Rasmussen auction 71, 1956 no. 128, ill. p. 85. Bruun Rasmussen auction 757, 2006 no. 1132, ill.p. 30 and 31 (detail). The collection of Louis Nielsen (2008).
The present painting is one of at least five studies for the painting mentioned as no. 486 in H. Chr. Christensen's Catalogue Raisonné of the works of P.S. Krøyer “En gruppe Fiskere på Skagens Nordstrand” (A Group of Fishermen on Skagen's Nordstrand) with the dimensions 124 × 226 cm from 1891. This monumental painting is one of the largest works in Krøyer's production and it helped secure his artistic breakthrough in Germany, when it was exhibited in Munich in 1892 at the International Exhibition. It was sold to the Bayerische Staatsgemäldesammlungen and subsequently exhibited at the Neue Pinakothek. The painting was sold off the collection in 1936, when the museum's management changed its strategy regarding the collection's content.
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