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| Image | Sale date | Auction house | Location | Sale name | Lot No. | Estimate | Price Sold | Condition | Title |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Mar 1, 2016 | Bruun Rasmussen | Bredgade | International Paintings, Antiques and Modern Art | 658 | $****** - ****** | La Joie d'être (The joy of being) |
paintings
81 x 100 cm (31.89 x 39.37 in)
oil on canvas
Signed Jorn; signed, titled and dated on the reverse. 48 (label at the reverse). Exhibited: "Cobra", Cobra Museum voor Moderne Kunst, Amstelveen, The Netherlands, 1996 (label at the reverse). Exhibited: "Grupo Cobra", Pinacoteca, Sao Paolo and Casa Andrade Muricy, Curitiba, Brazil, 2000 (labels at the reverse). Provenance: Galerie Jeanne Bucher, Paris (label at the reverse)
Galerie Jeanne Bucher, Paris (label at the reverse). Provenance: Collection Maison Bernard, Caracas, Venezuela. Provenance: Collection Maison Bernard, Caracas, Venezuela. Provenance: Karel van Stuijvenberg, Caracas, Venezuela. Provenance: Karel van Stuijvenberg, Caracas, Venezuela. Provenance:
Private collection, Denmark. Provenance:
Private collection, Denmark. "What can I say About my artistic intentions, When I start a painting To draw a beautiful tree And end up with a white cat? One expects me to control all this But it?s not possible. It?s a never-ending struggle between my painting and me: It runs ahead, I never manage to conquer it, And finally Often it?s the painting itself Who conquers me? Asger Jorn quoted in the catalogue for the exhibition at Galleria d'Arte La Bussola, Turin, Italy 1970, where the painting was first exhibited.
"Asger Jorn", Galleria d'Arte La Bussola, Turin, 1970, cat.
Guy Atkins: "Asger Jorn - The final years 1965-1973", Copenhagen, 1980, no. 1869, ill. full page in colors as fig. 181, p. 174. Literature: Lars Morell: "Asger Jorns kunst", Aarhus Universitetsforlag, 2014, ill. Literature: Lars Morell: "Asger Jorns kunst", Aarhus Universitetsforlag, 2014, ill. and described p.p. 169-171. Exhibited: "Asger Jorn", Galleria d'Arte La Bussola, Turin, 1970, cat.