Lot 141
  • 141

ASGER JORN | Végétation Angoissée

Estimate
35,000 - 45,000 GBP
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Description

  • Asger Jorn
  • Végétation Angoissée
  • signed
  • oil on canvas
  • 54 by 65 cm. 21 1/4 by 25 5/8 in.
  • Executed in 1957.

Provenance

Galerie Rive Gauche, Paris
Janssens Collection, New York
Private Collection, Brussels
Acquired from the above by the present owner

Literature

Guy Atkins, Asger Jorn: The Crucial Years, 1954-1964, London 1977, n.p., no. 1016, illustrated

Condition

Colour: The colours in the catalogue illustration are fairly accurate, although the overall tonality is lighter and brighter in the original. Condition: This work is in very good condition. Close inspection reveals some very fine tension cracks to the extreme overturn edges and some drying cracks and compressed peaks to the areas of heavy impasto, some of which have tiny specks of associated loss. Examination under ultra-violet light reveals some tiny spots of inpainting to the very extreme bottom corner tips and to the top left hand extreme corner tip.
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