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| Image | Sale date | Auction house | Location | Sale name | Lot No. | Estimate | Price Sold | Condition | Title |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Jun 2, 2015 | Bruun Rasmussen | Bredgade | International Paintings, Antiques and Modern Art | 839 | $****** - ****** | Uden titel (Untitled) |
paintings
100 x 69 cm (39.37 x 27.17 in)
oil on canvas
Unsigned
The collection of Ole Reimer, Copenhagen. Provenance:
Private collection, Denmark. Provenance:
Private collection, Denmark. In the summer of 1944, Asger Jorn lives with art collector Elna Fonnesbech-Sandberg in Tibirke. Elna Fonnesbech-Sandberg's nickname is "Dida", and during this period Asger Jorn signs a series of watercolors with the signature "ASKA". This leads to the term "Didaska Images", describing a number of paintings created primarily in 1944-1945. But variations on the theme can also be found in works from 1946, where the painting in question is from. The Didaska images typically show two bird-figures in an intimate relationship or interwoven, and the motif has obviously been interpreted as a symbol of the erotic attraction between Asger Jorn and Elna Fonnesbech-Sandberg. In this strongly lit and highly picturesque composition, two upright bird creatures materialize in the impetuous brushstrokes - especially when the gaze is focused on faces and eyes at the top of the image. Virtus Schade describes the years 1945-46 as 'The time of the Didaskas': "(.) Typical for the Didaska images in the large format was that the strong colors gathered in the centre of the image around figures, one or more, and that the background which limited them was billowing, colored lines, broad strokes that went all the way around the figures. They were not in the strictest sense background, but an extra frame for the figures. The room had disappeared. 1946 also meant a return to the pattern. The image became a kaleidoscope of small, colored bits of painting in a larger, complete form (.) "(Virtus Schade:" Asger Jorn - A world renown Danish artist", Copenhagen, 1965, p. 46).
Guy Atkins: "Jorn in Scandinavia 1930-1953", London, 1968, no. 450, ill.
