Asger Jorn
1914 - 1973
Composition. 1961.
Gouache and watercolor.
Signed and dated in the lower right. On textured wove paper. 38 x 51 cm (14.9 x 20 in).

• Asger Jorn—one of the most important figures of the post-1945 European avant-garde.
• From the “Crucial Years” (1954–1964), Asger Jorn’s pivotal creative phase that had a formative influence on European art.
• From 1957 to 1961, Asger Jorn was active in the Situationist International.
• A sheet brimming with luminous intensity.

PROVENANCE: Private collection, Denmark
Collection, Switzerland (2017, Bruun-Rasmussen).

LITERATURE: Bruun Rasmussen, Copenhagen, June 6, 2007, Lot 278
Bruun Rasmussen, Copenhagen, September 26, 2017, Lot 625 (with color illustration).

"The years 1954 to 1964 were ‘crucial years’ for they saw the emergence of Jorn as a major figure in European art."
Borgens Forlag in: Guy Atkins, Asger Jorn The crucial years: 1954 - 1964, London 1977, p. 7

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