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September 26, 2003
Titania I sold for €800,000
An oil painting by CoBrA vanguard artist Asger Jorn has commanded a record price at an auction in Copenhagen
An oil painting by non-figurative artist Asger Jorn was sold at Copenhagen's Kunsthallen Auction House for DKK 4,619,000. It is the highest price ever paid in Denmark for a work by the famous CoBrA painter.
When VAT, commission and charges are all included, the buyer, a Dane resident in Switzerland, secured the work for the tidy sum of around DKK 6 million.
The painting, measuring 100 X 125 centimetres and entitled "Titania I" was painted by Jorn in 1940. A sister work dubbed "Titania II" can be seen in the Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, north of Copenhagen.
Jorn (1914-73), one of Denmark's greatest 20th century painters, played a key role in post-war European art. Jorn helped found the CoBrA art group (COpenhagen-BRussels-Amsterdam) in 1948 along with other Danish, Belgian and Dutch artists.
Here's some background info on Asger Jorn and the CoBrA movement.
Posted by daen at September 26, 2003 01:01 AM