Sale: 591 / Day Sale, June 07. 2025 in Munich
Lot 125000171

125000171
Asger Jorn
Ohne Titel, 1955.
Oil on canvas
Estimate:
€ 80,000 - 120,000
$ 86,400 - 129,600
Information on buyer's premium, taxation and resale right compensation will be available four weeks before the auction.
Ohne Titel. 1955.
Oil on canvas.
Dated on the reverse of the stretcher by a hand other than that of the artist and inscribed with the artist's name, the dimensions and the catalogue raisonné information. 100 x 70 cm (39.3 x 27.5 in).
[AR].
• A masterful blend of figuration and abstraction.
• Asger Jorn's powerful painting continues to inspire with its versatility and innovative strength.
• In private hands for almost 40 years.
• From a key period in the artist's career: from the mid-1950s, he gained increasing public recognition, and participated, among others, in the second documenta in Kassel in 1959.
The work is documented in the Jorn Archive, Silkeborg (Museum Jorn).
PROVENANCE: Private collection.
Private collection, Southern Germany (since 1987, Galerie Rudolf Zwirner Cologne).
Family-owned since.
LITERATURE: Guy Atkins, Asger Jorn. The crucial years 1954-1964; a study of Asger Jorn’s development from 1954 to 1964 and a cat. of his oil paintings from that period, 1977, catalogue raisonné no. 933 (illustrated in black and white)
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Sotheby's London, Post War and Contemporary Art, June 26, 1986, lot 606.
Oil on canvas.
Dated on the reverse of the stretcher by a hand other than that of the artist and inscribed with the artist's name, the dimensions and the catalogue raisonné information. 100 x 70 cm (39.3 x 27.5 in).
[AR].
• A masterful blend of figuration and abstraction.
• Asger Jorn's powerful painting continues to inspire with its versatility and innovative strength.
• In private hands for almost 40 years.
• From a key period in the artist's career: from the mid-1950s, he gained increasing public recognition, and participated, among others, in the second documenta in Kassel in 1959.
The work is documented in the Jorn Archive, Silkeborg (Museum Jorn).
PROVENANCE: Private collection.
Private collection, Southern Germany (since 1987, Galerie Rudolf Zwirner Cologne).
Family-owned since.
LITERATURE: Guy Atkins, Asger Jorn. The crucial years 1954-1964; a study of Asger Jorn’s development from 1954 to 1964 and a cat. of his oil paintings from that period, 1977, catalogue raisonné no. 933 (illustrated in black and white)
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Sotheby's London, Post War and Contemporary Art, June 26, 1986, lot 606.
125000171
Asger Jorn
Ohne Titel, 1955.
Oil on canvas
Estimate:
€ 80,000 - 120,000
$ 86,400 - 129,600
Information on buyer's premium, taxation and resale right compensation will be available four weeks before the auction.
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