Advanced Search
Advanced Search

Thumbnail-size images of copyrighted artworks are displayed under fair use, in accordance with guidelines recommended by the Code of Best Practices in Fair Use for the Visual Arts, published by the College Art Association in February 2015.

Mask, from "Occupations"


Masque, from "Occupations"
Asger Jorn (Danish, 1914–1973)
Printed by: R. Tamburro, Paris
Publisher: Galerie Rive Gauche, Paris
1945

Medium/Technique Etching
Dimensions Sheet: 28.3 x 37.9 cm (11 1/8 x 14 15/16 in.)
Credit Line Lee M. Friedman Fund
Accession Number2009.2308.23
NOT ON VIEW
ClassificationsPrints

Catalogue Raisonné Van de Loo 67
Description"Occupations" is a set of twenty-three etchings accompanied by a title page, an essay by the poet René Bertellé, a list of plates, and a colophon signed by Jorn and Bertellé. It is encased in a green burlap portfolio cover. "Occupations" was printed by the master printer R. Tamburro in 1960 and published by the Galerie Rive Gauche in an edition of 50.

ProvenanceSotheby's London, Lot 320, (November 8, 2001); to Charles M. Young Fine Prints and Drawings (Portland, CT); from whom purchased by the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston (Accession date: April 22, 2009)