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Lot Essay
‘When spring comes, children – like hunted dangerous animals – always know where to steal a piece of chalk to anoint dead concrete walls or streets of lifeless asphalt with their living language.’ —A. JORN
Details
Asger Jorn (1914-1973)
Untitled
oil on canvas
84 x 100cm.
Painted in 1943
Untitled
oil on canvas
84 x 100cm.
Painted in 1943
Provenance
Inger Wørzner Collection, Vejle.
Galerie Moderne, Silkeborg.
Anon. sale, Christie's London, 2 July 1998, lot 203.
Acquired at the above sale by the previous owner.
Thence by descent to the present owner.
Galerie Moderne, Silkeborg.
Anon. sale, Christie's London, 2 July 1998, lot 203.
Acquired at the above sale by the previous owner.
Thence by descent to the present owner.
Literature
G. Atkins, Jorn in Scandinavia, 1930-1953, London 1968, p. 225, no. 308 (illustrated, p. 351).
Special Notice
Artist's Resale Right ("Droit de Suite"). Artist's Resale Right Regulations 2006 apply to this lot, the buyer agrees to pay us an amount equal to the resale royalty provided for in those Regulations, and we undertake to the buyer to pay such amount to the artist's collection agent.
Further Details
This work is registered in the archives of the Museum Jorn, Silkeborg.
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