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A giclée print on 200gsm matte fine art paper, using a twelve-colour process for accurate, fade-resistant colour. Supplied unframed, delivered flat or rolled.
The Timid Proud One - Asger Jorn
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Description
A raw, expressionist portrait by Danish artist Asger Jorn, featuring heavy impasto and a mask-like figure rendered in earthy tones.
Asger Jorn, a founding member of the CoBrA movement, produced The Timid Proud One in 1957. This work displays the characteristic spontaneity and raw emotional force associated with his practice during the post-war period. Jorn rejected the formal constraints of traditional painting, opting instead for a gestural approach that prioritises the physical application of paint. The surface is heavily worked, with thick impasto layers creating a tactile quality that draws the viewer into the material reality of the canvas. The composition centres on a distorted, mask-like visage. The figure emerges from a chaotic background of scratched and layered pigments. Jorn employs a palette dominated by earthy greens, ochres, and muted blues, which are applied with aggressive, sweeping brushwork. The features of the face are barely discernible, rendered through rough, dark outlines that suggest a state of psychological flux. This ambiguity is central to the work, as the title implies a contradiction between fragility and arrogance, a duality often explored in Jorn's depictions of the human condition. Jorn's technique involves a constant dialogue between control and chance. He allows the paint to dictate the final form, often scraping back layers to reveal earlier marks. This process creates a sense of history within the image, as if the figure is being unearthed from the paint itself. The work does not seek to represent a specific individual, but rather a universal archetype of human emotion. By stripping away realistic detail, Jorn focuses on the expressive potential of colour and line. The result is a visceral image that maintains a tension between the grotesque and the vulnerable, typical of his contribution to European modernism.
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The Timid Proud One - Asger Jorn
Regular price
From $29.00 USD
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From $29.00 USD
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Fine Art Poster / A4 (21x29.7 cm) / -
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- Frames in black, natural wood, dark wood or white
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Museum-grade giclée on FSC-certified archival matte paper, with framed and canvas options.
- Paper sizes: A4, A3, A2, A1, A0 and B2 (50×70 cm)
- Canvas: XS (20×30 cm) to Large (60×90 cm)
- Frames: black, natural wood, dark wood or white
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The same fine art print in a solid wood frame with UV-protective acrylic glaze and rigid backing. Five frame colours. Arrives ready to hang.
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A deeper solid wood frame: 33mm deep with a 20mm face and Perspex glaze. The print sits unmounted for a clean gallery presentation. Black, white or natural.
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Hand-stretched canvas with neat gallery-wrapped edges, giving the artwork surface texture and depth. Arrives ready to hang.
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Stretched canvas set in a floating wood frame, our most substantial finish. Arrives ready to hang.
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Artist Biography
Asger Jorn
When the Guggenheim International Award Committee informed Asger Jorn in 1964 that he had won their prize, his reply arrived by telegram: "GO TO HELL WITH YOUR MONEY BASTARD, STOP, REFUSE PRICE, STOP, NEVER ASKED FOR IT, STOP." The gesture was characteristic of an artist who spent much of his life in open conflict with institutional authority and commercial culture.
Born in Vejrum, Jutland in 1914, Jorn studied briefly in Paris in the late 1930s, where he attended Léger's atelier and worked with Le Corbusier on a pavilion project. During the Nazi occupation of Denmark he co-founded Helhesten, an underground cultural journal that kept experimental art alive through the war years. In 1948 he was a founding member of CoBrA, the international group that brought together artists from Copenhagen, Brussels, and Amsterdam in a loose avant-garde coalition emphasising raw expressiveness and collective mythology.
After CoBrA dissolved in 1951 he aligned briefly with the Situationist International, contributing theoretical writing alongside Guy Debord before a clean break in 1961. Over his lifetime he produced more than 2,500 works in paint, print, ceramics, and collage, and wrote over twenty books on aesthetics and political theory. He was also, incidentally, the first person to translate Franz Kafka into Danish. The major collection of his work is held at Museum Jorn in Silkeborg, which he helped establish. He died in Aarhus in May 1973.
Born in Vejrum, Jutland in 1914, Jorn studied briefly in Paris in the late 1930s, where he attended Léger's atelier and worked with Le Corbusier on a pavilion project. During the Nazi occupation of Denmark he co-founded Helhesten, an underground cultural journal that kept experimental art alive through the war years. In 1948 he was a founding member of CoBrA, the international group that brought together artists from Copenhagen, Brussels, and Amsterdam in a loose avant-garde coalition emphasising raw expressiveness and collective mythology.
After CoBrA dissolved in 1951 he aligned briefly with the Situationist International, contributing theoretical writing alongside Guy Debord before a clean break in 1961. Over his lifetime he produced more than 2,500 works in paint, print, ceramics, and collage, and wrote over twenty books on aesthetics and political theory. He was also, incidentally, the first person to translate Franz Kafka into Danish. The major collection of his work is held at Museum Jorn in Silkeborg, which he helped establish. He died in Aarhus in May 1973.
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