Asger Jorn - Untitled
Asger Jorn
Untitled
Around 1940
Oil on canvas. 73 x 59 cm. Framed. Signed 'Jorn'. Designated "Asger Jorn Ca. 1944" verso on canvas. - The work has been professionally restored.
The Danish artist Asger Jorn famously spent the mid 1930s in Paris, where he joined Fernand Léger's Academie Contemporaine. There students worked in a very structured and disciplined way. Jorn, who later rose to fame with his exuberant brush strokes, paintings that included allusions to ghosts, spirits and otherworldy creatures had an enriching time in Paris. He worked with Le Corbusier and met members of the École de Paris. In 1937 he went on to assist Le Corbusier with the 'Temps Nouveaux' Pavillion at the World Fair in Paris, at the same time as Picasso's Guernica work was exhibited at the Spanish Pavillion. The fair took place during a time which was overshadowed by Civil War in Spain, the Great Depression and first signs of an imminent World War. The painting in our auction was painted around 1940, when Jorn was still in France. It shows a more restrained composition. Muted colour palettes and the juxtaposition of varying beige, brown and light pink colour fields. The confidence of his line is already established - Jorn had been painting since he was 15-years-old - but to the connoisseur of his work it is clear, that his feverish, energetic and more archaic style was still to flourish. It is a wonderful example of an earlier work, harmonious without being boring, and muted without lacking in strength.
Catalogue Raisonné
Guy Atkins, Asger Jorn, Jorn in Scandinavia, 1930-1953, London 1968, cat.rais. no.185 (there dated: 1940)
Provenance
Collection F. C. Boldsen, Copenhagen; Collection Frode Folkvang, Holstebro; Bruun Rasmussen, Copenhagen, 26.09.1995, Collection of the late Frode Folkvang, lot 46; private collection, South Germany
Exhibitions
Viborg 1961 (exhibition in three collections of Aage Damgaard, Frode Folkvang and Einer Madsen), Asger Jorn
Aarhus 1961 (Universität), Asger Jorn, Robert Jacobsen, exhib.cat. p.8. with ill.
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Asger Jorn
Untitled
Around 1940
Oil on canvas. 73 x 59 cm. Framed. Signed 'Jorn'. Designated "Asger Jorn Ca. 1944" verso on canvas. - The work has been professionally restored.
The Danish artist Asger Jorn famously spent the mid 1930s in Paris, where he joined Fernand Léger's Academie Contemporaine. There students worked in a very structured and disciplined way. Jorn, who later rose to fame with his exuberant brush strokes, paintings that included allusions to ghosts, spirits and otherworldy creatures had an enriching time in Paris. He worked with Le Corbusier and met members of the École de Paris. In 1937 he went on to assist Le Corbusier with the 'Temps Nouveaux' Pavillion at the World Fair in Paris, at the same time as Picasso's Guernica work was exhibited at the Spanish Pavillion. The fair took place during a time which was overshadowed by Civil War in Spain, the Great Depression and first signs of an imminent World War. The painting in our auction was painted around 1940, when Jorn was still in France. It shows a more restrained composition. Muted colour palettes and the juxtaposition of varying beige, brown and light pink colour fields. The confidence of his line is already established - Jorn had been painting since he was 15-years-old - but to the connoisseur of his work it is clear, that his feverish, energetic and more archaic style was still to flourish. It is a wonderful example of an earlier work, harmonious without being boring, and muted without lacking in strength.
Catalogue Raisonné
Guy Atkins, Asger Jorn, Jorn in Scandinavia, 1930-1953, London 1968, cat.rais. no.185 (there dated: 1940)
Provenance
Collection F. C. Boldsen, Copenhagen; Collection Frode Folkvang, Holstebro; Bruun Rasmussen, Copenhagen, 26.09.1995, Collection of the late Frode Folkvang, lot 46; private collection, South Germany
Exhibitions
Viborg 1961 (exhibition in three collections of Aage Damgaard, Frode Folkvang and Einer Madsen), Asger Jorn
Aarhus 1961 (Universität), Asger Jorn, Robert Jacobsen, exhib.cat. p.8. with ill.
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