Promenade familiale

Details

Asger Jorn (1914-1973)
Promenade familiale
signed 'Jorn' (lower right); signed tiled and dated 'PROMENADE FAMILIALE JORN 58' (on the stretcher)
oil on canvas
35 x 46in. (88.8 x 116.8cm.)
Painted in 1958

Provenance

John Trouillard, Anvers.
Acquired from the above by the present owner in 1970.

Literature

G. Atkins, Asger Jorn The Crucial Years: 1954-1964, London 1977, no. 1094 (illustrated, unpaged).

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"Art is life form: beautiful, ugly, impressive, disgusting, meaningless, grim, contradictory, etc.- It makes no difference, as long as it is life, vigorously pouring forth."
(A. Jorn quoted, exh. cat., Asger Jorn, Arken Museum of Modern Art, Denmark, 2003).

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