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Personage (Personnage)

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Asger Jorn

"Jorn was behind the first CoBrA exhibition in 1949. Of all the artists in the group, Jorn's painting was the most violently opposed to the aesthetics of "harmony" and "order." His frenzied "Personnage" reminds one to some extent of Dubuffet's art. As wild and explosive as the tachists, he remains, however, attached to fantastic figuration." 19th & 20th century art from collections of alumni & friends : inaugural exhibition, September 11 - November 8, 1970, Elvehjem Art Center (1970), p. 118.
Artist
Asger Jorn
(Danish, 1914 - 1973)
Title
Personage (Personnage)
Date
1958
Medium
Oil on canvas
Dimensions
19 3/4 x 15 3/4 in. overall
Credit
Gift of Alexander and Henrietta W. Hollaender
Accession No.
1981.266
Classification
Paintings
Geography
Denmark

Related

1 September 1962, sold by Galleria D’arte del Cavallino (Venice, Italy) to Alexander and Henrietta W. Hollaender (Oak Ridge, TN and Washington D.C); 1981 gifted to the Elvehjem Museum of Art [now called Chazen Museum of Art]

  • Elvehjem Art Center. "Inaugural Exhibition: 19th & 20th Century Art from Collections of Alumni & Friends." Madison, WI: Regents of the University of Wisconsin, 1970. p. 118, no. 148
  • Elvehjem Museum of Art. "CoBrA: The Hollaender Collection" [exhibition cat]. Madison: Elvehjem Museum of Art, 1981. p. 22, no. 2

  • CoBrA: The Hollaender Collection: Dulin Gallery of Art, Knoxville, TN, 9/6/1984–10/14/1984
  • CoBrA: The Hollaender Collection: Elvehjem Museum of Art, 5/31/1981–7/25/1981
  • Inaugural Exhibition: 19th & 20th Cen. Art from Collection of Alumni & Friends: Elvehjem Art Center, 9/11/1970–11/8/1970

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