Lot 124000999 
124000999
Asger Jorn
Helicodimetre pertorituelle, 1964.
Décollage on cardboard, on panel
Estimate:
€ 20,000 - 30,000
$ 22,000 - 33,000
Information on buyer's premium, taxation and resale right compensation will be available four weeks before the auction.
Helicodimetre pertorituelle. 1964.
Décollage on cardboard, on panel.
Signed and dated in the lower right. Once again signed and dated on the reverse, as well as titled and inscribed with the work number “Nº26”. Visible area: 48.5 x 64.5 cm (19 x 25.3 in).
[AR].
• Early Décollage: Jorn created his first works in this distinctive technique in 1964.
• Using torn-up advertising posters, Jorn developed works imbued with unique aesthetics, allowing new, imaginative compositions to emerge layer by layer.
• This extremely complex work oscillating between abstraction and figuration, uses word fragments and a playful title to encourage narrative interpretations.
• In the year of its creation, the artist took part in the documenta in Kassel for the second time after 1959.
The work is registered in the Jorn Archiv, Silkeborg (Museum Jorn).
PROVENANCE: J. Peter Cochrane Collection, London (with a handwritten note on the reverse).
Martin Summers Fine Art LTD., London (with a label on the reverse).
From a Swiss collection.
EXHIBITION: Asger Jorn and Eugène Dodeigne, Kunsthalle Basel, October 24-November 22, 1964, cat. no. 105.
Asger Jorn: schilderijenStedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, December 11, 1964 - January 25, 1965, cat. no. 126.
Asger Jorn, Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, February 6 - 28, 1965, cat. no. 129.
Fixsterne, 100 Jahre Kunst auf Papier. Adolph Menzel bis Kiki Smith, Stiftung Schleswig Holsteinische Landesmuseen, Schloß Gottorf, May 31 - Sept. 20, 2009, p. 89 (illustrated in color, with label on the reverse)
Ganz schön gerissen! Asger Jorns Collagen und Décollagen, Kunsthalle Emden, October 25, 2014 - January 18, 2015, p. 54 (illustrated in color).
LITERATURE: Sotheby's London, June 19, 2006, lot 637.
Décollage on cardboard, on panel.
Signed and dated in the lower right. Once again signed and dated on the reverse, as well as titled and inscribed with the work number “Nº26”. Visible area: 48.5 x 64.5 cm (19 x 25.3 in).
[AR].
• Early Décollage: Jorn created his first works in this distinctive technique in 1964.
• Using torn-up advertising posters, Jorn developed works imbued with unique aesthetics, allowing new, imaginative compositions to emerge layer by layer.
• This extremely complex work oscillating between abstraction and figuration, uses word fragments and a playful title to encourage narrative interpretations.
• In the year of its creation, the artist took part in the documenta in Kassel for the second time after 1959.
The work is registered in the Jorn Archiv, Silkeborg (Museum Jorn).
PROVENANCE: J. Peter Cochrane Collection, London (with a handwritten note on the reverse).
Martin Summers Fine Art LTD., London (with a label on the reverse).
From a Swiss collection.
EXHIBITION: Asger Jorn and Eugène Dodeigne, Kunsthalle Basel, October 24-November 22, 1964, cat. no. 105.
Asger Jorn: schilderijenStedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, December 11, 1964 - January 25, 1965, cat. no. 126.
Asger Jorn, Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, February 6 - 28, 1965, cat. no. 129.
Fixsterne, 100 Jahre Kunst auf Papier. Adolph Menzel bis Kiki Smith, Stiftung Schleswig Holsteinische Landesmuseen, Schloß Gottorf, May 31 - Sept. 20, 2009, p. 89 (illustrated in color, with label on the reverse)
Ganz schön gerissen! Asger Jorns Collagen und Décollagen, Kunsthalle Emden, October 25, 2014 - January 18, 2015, p. 54 (illustrated in color).
LITERATURE: Sotheby's London, June 19, 2006, lot 637.
124000999
Asger Jorn
Helicodimetre pertorituelle, 1964.
Décollage on cardboard, on panel
Estimate:
€ 20,000 - 30,000
$ 22,000 - 33,000
Information on buyer's premium, taxation and resale right compensation will be available four weeks before the auction.
