Lot 219
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ASGER JORN | Foreigners facing future

Estimate
70,000 - 100,000 EUR
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Description

  • Asger Jorn
  • Foreigners facing future
  • signed; signed, titled and dated 61 on the reverse
  • oil on canvas
  • 64,6 x 81 cm ; 25 1/2 x 31 7/8 in.
  • Executed in 1961.

Provenance

Grünebaum Gallery Ltd, New York
Private Collection, Belgium

Exhibited

Philadelphia, Makler Gallery, Cobra, 10 January - 7 February 1964

Literature

Guy Atkins, Asger Jorn, The crucial years: 1954 - 1964, London, 1997, np., no. 1347, illustrated

Condition

The left half of the canvas presents stable hairline drying cracks. in the blue paint. Tiny uplifts are visible in this are as well. Further close inspection reveals small uplifts and cracks in the black paint along the right edge. Cracks and associated losses are visible in the yellow paint along the upper edge.
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