La surface des hautes profondeurs. 1968.
Mixed media. Décollage. Various types of paper on cardboard, painted and mounted on pressboard.
Signed and dated in lower right. Verso barely legibly signed, dated and titled. Ca. 107.5 x 77.5 cm (42.3 x 30.5 in).
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• Asger Jorn's multi-color paper works play with the balance between abstraction and figuration.
• He creates the motif from the paper layer by layer, removes parts, rearranges single elements and finally draws fine lines over them.
• Made in the 1960s when the artist was intesively preoccupied with the Décollage.
• Show in the last grand retrospective at the Lenbachhaus in Munich in 1987, as well as in the last exhibition during the artist's lifetime at the Kestner-Gesellschaft, Hanover and others in 1973.

The work is registered at the Jorn Archive, Silkeborg (Museum Jorn).

PROVENANCE: Private collection Southern Germany.
Private collection North Rhine-Westphalia.

EXHIBITION: Asger Jorn, Kestner-Gesellschaft Hanover / Nationalgalerie Berlin / Palais des Beaux-Arts, Brussels / Nordjyllands Kunstmuseum, Aalborg, 1973, cat. no. 90 (with illu., Kestner-Gesellschaft catalog 2/1973, p. 154).
Asger Jorn. 1914-1973, Städtische Galerie im Lenbachhaus, München, 1987, cat. no. 176 (with color illu. on p. 240).
Asger Jorn. Décollagen, Galerie Michael Haas, Berlin, December 9, 1989 - January 28, 1990, cat. no. 9 (with color illu.).
Ganz schön gerissen! Asger Jorns Collagen und Décollagen, Kunsthalle Emden, Ocotber 25, 2014 - January 18, 2015, cat. no. 14 (with color illu. on p. 152).

LITERATURE: Villa Grisebach Auktionen, Berlin, auction 64, June 6, 1998, lot 358 (with color illu.).