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P. S. Krøyer
b. Stavanger 1851, d. Skagen 1909
Two boys sitting in the sunshine on Skagen Beach. Signed
and dated S. Krøyer Skagen 93. Oil on canvas. 38 x 60 cm.
In the late 1870s Krøyer studied in Paris under Léon Bonnat and
became influenced by the naturalist plein-air school of painting,
especially by its emphasis on colour and light. In 1882 Krøyer
visited Skagen for the first time and found this desert between two
seas an ideal place to study the qualities of colour and light. Besides
his great interest in and ability to paint sand, water and the
outdoor atmosphere Krøyer also was a brilliant painter of figures.
He often painted himself, his wife Marie or local women and
fishermen walking or sitting on the beach. When children were his
theme, he usually painted them naked and bathing like the
children seen in the background of this painting. Not very often
are they just sitting like in this piece. Maybe these two boys on summer
holiday from Copenhagen are watching the local fishermen
leaving or returning from fishing?
DKK 3.000.000 / € 402.000
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