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Le futile enchaînement (The Futile Chain)
Details
Asger Jorn (1914-1973)
Le futile enchaînement (The Futile Chain)
signed 'JORN' (lower right); titled 'LE FUTILE ENCHAINEMENT' (on the stretcher)
oil on canvas
32 x 25 ¾in. (81.3 x 65.3cm.)
Painted in 1961
Le futile enchaînement (The Futile Chain)
signed 'JORN' (lower right); titled 'LE FUTILE ENCHAINEMENT' (on the stretcher)
oil on canvas
32 x 25 ¾in. (81.3 x 65.3cm.)
Painted in 1961
Provenance
Arthur Tooth & Sons, London.
Sam and Ayala Zacks, Toronto (acquired from the above in 1961).
Ayala Zacks Abramov, Tel Aviv and Jerusalem.
Thence by descent to the present owners.
Sam and Ayala Zacks, Toronto (acquired from the above in 1961).
Ayala Zacks Abramov, Tel Aviv and Jerusalem.
Thence by descent to the present owners.
Literature
G. Atkins, Asger Jorn. The Crucial Years 1954-1964, London 1977, no. 1332 (illustrated, p. 352).
Exhibited
Toronto, York University, York Hall, A Decade of Art, 1962.
Tel Aviv, Museum of Art, 1990-1991 (on loan).
Tel Aviv, Museum of Art, 1990-1991 (on loan).
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