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Artist: Viggo Johansen (1851–1935)
Danish painter
Title: Kitchen, with the artist's Wife
Object type: Painting
Description: Viggo Johansen was a key figure in the circle of Skagen painters. This is a painting of the kitchen in the house he rented with his family for many summers in the 1880s. The house was later rented by the artist couple Krøyer and then by the artist Laurits Tuxen. The woman is Johansen’s wife, Martha who often appears, along with their children, in the painter’s serene, intimate pictorial world. Martha Johansen was also an artist.
Date: 1887
Medium: Oil on canvas
Dimensions: Height: 61 cm (24 in). Width: 49 cm (19.3 in).
Framed: Height: 74.5 cm (29.3 in). Width: 63.5 cm (25 in). Depth: 8 cm (3.1 in).
Inscriptions (Swedish): Signerad: V J Skagen 87.
SKU: 272866
