Live Auction 14078Post-War and Contemporary Art
Asger Jorn (1914-1973)
Lot 57

Asger Jorn (1914-1973)

Untitled

Closed12 April 2017

Price Realised

EUR 98,500

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Asger Jorn (1914-1973)
Untitled
oil on canvas
84 x 100cm.
Painted in 1943

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.

Specialist note

‘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