Michael Ancher (b. Bornholm 1849, d. Skagen 1927)
“Fiskere, som i Uveir iagttage de forbiseilende Skibe. Motivet fra Skagen”. Stormy day with fishermen watching the ships passing by. Signed with monogram and dated 1876. Oil on canvas. 105×145 cm.
Elisabeth Fabritius, A Catalogue Raisonné of the Works of Michael Ancher no. 74.
Exhibited: Charlottenborg 1876 no. 395 (supplement). Skagens Museum og Altonaer Museum in Hamburg Norddeutsches Landesmuseum, “Michael Ancher. 1849–9. juni - 1999”, 1999 no. 24.
Literature: “Smaa Kunstbøger” no. 7, 1912, reproduced p. 8. Elisabeth Fabritius, "Michael Anchers ungdom 1865–1880 p. 57–62, reproduced p. 61.
Provenance: ABR auction 9, 1949 no. 14. ABR auction, 298, 1973 no. 3.
Ancher's painting got a positive review in “Dagbladet” on the 9th of May 1876 (in Danish): “The painting is full of light and nature, captivating especially in the description of the weathered fishermen, but also in the way weather and temperature are expressed”.
A good example of one of Michael Ancher's early large paintings from Skagen where he spent his first summer in 1874.
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Selected art, 28 November 2011