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Figurskitse. To siddende mænd: Aarsleff og P. Johansen
Viggo Johansen (Danish, 1851–1935)
1906
- Classification
- Drawing
- Dimensions
- height 164 mm, width 192 mm, height 162 mm, width 190 mm
- Culture
- Danish
- Museum
- SMK – National Gallery of Denmark
- Rights
- Public Domain Mark: SMK waives its rights in this photograph, as the museum states it.
- Who can see it
- Teens profiles and older: its museum says too little about what it shows to place it for younger viewers. How works are placed
View at the SMK – National Gallery of Denmark
About this work
At Statens Museum for Kunst we sometimes come across the backs of works that tell us something about the lives of artists. This is the case with these sketches by Viggo Johansen and Kai Nielsen. The drawings are on the back of a bill and a menu, and were not intended to be seen as finished works by the artists. They probably did not think about what they were drawing on, just grabbing whatever was at hand. Viggo Johansen has done a sketch of two men on the back of a bill for two velvet ribbons and a clothing repair made out to his wife. Kai Nielsen’s quick sketch of Leda and the Swan is on the back of a menu from Hotel Norge in Bergen, where on May 13t, 1918 a three-course dinner for 5.5 Norwegian crowns included roast veal with gravy and vanilla blancmange.
