A look into the past

细节

Asger Jorn (1914-1973)
A look into the past
signed 'Jorn' (lower right); signed, titled, inscribed and dated 'A look into the past London 1962 Jorn' (on the reverse)
oil on canvas
60 x 73 cm.
Painted in 1962

来源

Arthur Tooth & Sons, London.
Collection Mr and Mrs Frank H. Porter Trust Estate, Ohio.
Anon. sale, Christie's London, 20 October 2004, lot 77.
Anon. sale, Bruun Rasmussen Copenhagen, 9 October 2006, lot 31.

出版

V. Schade, Asger Jorn, Copenhagen 1965 (illustrated, p. 97); titled as Et blik ind i fortiden.
G. Atkins, Asger Jorn. The Crucial Years 1954-1964, Copenhagen/London, 1977, no. 1427 (illustrated).

注意事项

Artist's Resale Right ("Droit de Suite"). Artist's Resale Right Regulations 2006 apply to this lot, the buyer agrees to pay us an amount equal to the resale royalty provided for in those Regulations, and we undertake to the buyer to pay such amount to the artist's collection agent.

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Lisa Snijders

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拍品专文

'Why this almost sad tone in the painting? Something at once drily and freshly present? Asger Jorn gives the explanation in the title: A Look into the Past. This is not just a memory, but a glance back - and yet seen in the somewhat sad glow of happiness that a distance in time gives. The forms are wellknown: Birds' faces, small unidentifiable creatures. But the sadness is mostly in the colours. The green head in the right corner, the orange head in the upper left corner, the blue bird in the centre, and the white "Aganaks" at the bottom to the left do not differ from the whole, but merge into it. These figures are so mild that they move the viewer's heart. It is particularly touching to look into a world that an artist has experienced - it has become part of himself' (Asger Jorn quoted in: V. Schade, Asger Jorn, Copenhagen 1965, p. 96).

A look into the past

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