Reise nach Toronto. 1961.
Oil on canvas.
Atkins 1401. Signed and dated in lower right. With inscriptions such as "Blaue Blume" on the reverse. 50 x 40 cm (19.6 x 15.7 in).
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• Privately-owned for 60 years.
• Made during a stay in Munich, an important place for artistic creation between 1957 and 1973.
• From an important creative period: In 1959 and in 1964 he participated in the documenta in Kassel, in 1961 he published manifestos of the movement "Situationist International".

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

PROVENANCE: Galerie Van De Loo, Munich.
Private collection Southern Germany (acquired from the above in 1963).

LITERATURE: Otto van de Loo, Asger Jorn in München. Dokumentation seines malerischen Werkes, Munich, 1996, cat. no. 59 (with illu.).


"This is where the personal perception of life takes on the outlines of a personal mythology. For Jorn, the entire professional process of painting is a single process on secret paths of methodology aimed at provoking the hidden legendary layer in the human being, which actually constitutes the human personality."

Werner Haftmann, 1961, quoted from: Otto van de Loo, Asger Jorn in München, Munich, 1996, no page number.