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| Image | Sale date | Auction house | Location | Sale name | Lot No. | Estimate | Price Sold | Condition | Title |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Feb 25, 2014 | Bruun Rasmussen | Bredgade | Internationale malerier, antikviteter og moderne kunst | 712 | $****** - ****** | Fantom i Plop (Phantom in Plop) |
paintings
86 x 101 cm (33.86 x 39.76 in)
oil on canvas
Signed Asger J. 41; signed Asger Jørgensen and dated on the reverse.
Mrs. Anna Næsgaard, Copenhagen. Provenance: Mrs. Provenance: Mrs. H. Wium-Andersen, Herning. Provenance:
Private Collection, Denmark. Provenance:
Private Collection, Denmark. In his biography, Troels Andersen describes how, in 1940-41, Asger Jorn lays the foundation of the motif universe his later work will revolve around. He paints a series of pictures - including "Fantom i Plop" - based on automatic drawing: "(.) increasingly intersecting lines form a jumble from which a few of the figures evolve, marked by 'eyes', or by lines simply suggesting figures in their circling". In June 1941, Asger Jorn and Kirsten Lyngborg visit her mother in Nibe, and it is here that the couple's first child, Klaus, is born on 15 June. Troels Andersen describes the period as a happy phase in Jorn's life, when he sets up an art studio in Sebbersund overlooking the fjord. Here, four large paintings were painted in which the colors are influenced by the blue and green tones of the North Jutland summer landscape, including the work up for auction, about which is written: "In 'Fantom i Plop', the figures are harder to identify, the abstract interplay of the lines is more clearly emphasised, but coloristically, the experience of the color of summer is still unmistakable". (Troels Andersen: Asger Jorn En Biografi Årene 1914-53, København 1994, p. 76-77).
Guy Atkins: "Jorn in Scandinavia 1930-1953", London 1968, no. 219, ill. p. 340. Literature: Herman Madsen: "Efterårets udstillinger" (Autumn exhibitions), Samleren, XIX, Copenhagen, November 1942, ill. Literature: Herman Madsen: "Efterårets udstillinger" (Autumn exhibitions), Samleren, XIX, Copenhagen, November 1942, ill. p. 73. Literature: Ole Sarvig: "Et foredrag om abstrakt kunst" (A lecture on abstract art), Helios, Copenhagen 1945, ill. Literature: Ole Sarvig: "Et foredrag om abstrakt kunst" (A lecture on abstract art), Helios, Copenhagen 1945, ill. p. 42. Literature: "Cobra Review", no. Literature: "Cobra Review", no. 4, 1949, ill. p. 6.
