Live Auction 3065Post-War and Contemporary Art
Asger Jorn (1914-1973)
Lot 31

Asger Jorn (1914-1973)

Untitled

Closed2 November 2016

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EUR 92,500

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Asger Jorn (1914-1973)
Untitled
signed and dated 'Asger Jorn 46' (lower right)
oil on canvas
76 x 90.5cm.
Painted in 1946

Helge Andersen, Frederikssund.
Holger Jugel, Aarhus.
Anon. sale, Christie's Amsterdam, 17 June 2009, lot 15.
Acquired at the above sale by the present owner.

Specialist note

‘One is often better able to describe the struggle between people, the essential, by using fantastical animals, simple, primitive, naked instincts, than by painting a specific individual situation... We should describe ourselves as human animals’ -A. Jorn