Krøyer at Skagen
Skagen, at the very tip of Denmark where two seas meet, drew a colony of painters in the late 1800s, and P.S. Krøyer painted its long blue summer evenings better than anyone.
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About the series
Krøyer first came to Skagen in 1882. The fishing village was poor and remote, but the light, reflected off sea on almost every side, was unlike anywhere else, and painters from Denmark, Norway and Sweden spent their summers there. Krøyer painted the fishermen hauling nets on the beach, and the artists themselves at long, cheerful dinners.
His best known pictures are of the blue hour, the long twilight of a northern summer when sea and sky turn the same pale blue. Summer Evening on Skagen's Southern Beach, from 1893, shows his wife Marie and the painter Anna Ancher walking along the water's edge. It is in the Skagens Museum, which grew out of the colony and still holds much of its work, as does Midsummer Eve Bonfire on Skagen Beach from 1906.
The beach scenes are calm and cool in colour. They suit a bedroom or a bright room near the sea, and they pair well with each other.
