Launching the Boat. Skagen

He immediately became attached to the artists' community there, especially Michael Ancher, his wife Anna and Holger Drachmann.

[1] Björck spent several summers there, completing some of his best paintings under the influence of Krøyer and the French Naturalism movement.

[2][3] Measuring 160 by 194.5 centimetres (63.0 in × 76.6 in), Launching the Boat is the largest of Björck's open-air paintings from Skagen.

The thick layers of paint on the canvas help to convey the foaming surf and the coarseness of the sand.

The fisherman at the front of the boat is Ole Svendsen who can also be seen in many of Ancher's paintings of the Skagen fishermen.