Le Hollandais Volant (Modification) - The Flying Dutchman

Details

Asger Jorn (DANISH, 1914-1973)
Le Hollandais Volant (Modification) - The Flying Dutchman
signed 'Jorn' (lower left)
oil on board over an earlier painting
50.5 x 99 cm.
Painted in 1959.

Provenance

Arthur Tooth & Sons, London.
Private Collection, London (purchased from the above in June 1959).
Private Collection, United Kingdom.

Literature

G. Atkins, Asger Jorn: The Crucial Years: 1954-1964, London 1977, no. 1190 (illustrated).

Exhibited

Paris, Galerie Rive Gauche, Modifications, 6-28 May 1959, no. 10.

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Lot Essay

Detourned Painting

Intended for the general public. Read effortlessly.

Be Modern,
collectors, museums.
If you have old paintings,
do not despair.
Retain your memories
but detourn them
so that they correspond with your era.
Why reject the old
if we can modernize it
with a few strokes of a brush?
This cast a bit of contemporaneity
on your old culture,
Be up to date,
and distinguished
at the same time.
Painting is over.
You might as well finish it off.
Detourn.
Long live painting.

Asger Jorn.

Translated from the French and annotated by Thomas Y. Levin. Original text, peinture détourneé, first published in Vingt peintures, modifiées par Asgar Jorn, exhibition catalogue, Paris Galerie Rive Gauche, May 1959.

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