ASGER JORN | Christmas Tree at the Market

Galerie Birch, Copenhagen
V.O. Permild, Copenhagen
Private Collection, Copenhagen
Bruun Rasmussen, Copenhagen, Modern Paintings & Sculptures, 4 October 2010, lot 788
Acquired from the above sale by the present owner

Copenhagen, Galerie Birch, Asger Jorn, September - October 1953; catalogue, p. 4, no. 63, illustrated
Copenhagen, Charlottenborg, Kunsten, December 1954; catalogue, np., no. 114
Basel, Kunsthalle, Asger Jorn - Eugène Dodeigne, October - November 1964; catalogue, np., no. 23
Amsterdam, Stedelijk Museum, Jorn, December 1964 - January 1965; catalogue, no. 24
Hannover, Kerstner-Gesellschaft, Asger Jorn, February - March 1973; catalogue, np., no. 16
Lyngby, Sophienholm, Kunst - Samlinger og Sammenhaenge, November 1991 - February 1992
Aalborg, Nordjyllands Kunstmuseum, Jorn til folket: Asger Jorn - Udvalgte 1935-1972, June - August 1997; catalogue, p. 139, no. 6, illustrated in colour

Guy Atkins, Jorn in Scandinavia 1930-1953, Copenhagen, 1968, p. 124, no. 779, fig. 113, illustrated in colour
Asger Jorn: Billedfortegnelse (Studio Book), no. 63

The colours are fairly accurate in the catalogue illustration, although the latter does not convey the richness and reliefs of the impasto. The edges of the canvas are covered by tapes. The work is executed on its original canvas and is not relined. The stretcher is not the original one. Upon very close inspection, some hairline stabilized cracks are visible in the dark green area in the lower edge, in the yellow impastos near the center of the composition and in the darker blue area in the lower left quadrant. There are two small holes located in the middle of the left edge, visible under close inspection. Under UV light inspection, few small dots of retouching fluoresce near the lower edge in the center. This work is in good condition.
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This work is registered at the Museum Jorn in Silkeborg and in the addendum to the Catalogue Raisonné by Guy Atkins and Troels Andersen under number 779.