- Artist
- Asger Jorn 1914–1973
- Original title
- Le Timide Orgueilleux
- Medium
- Oil paint on board
- Dimensions
- Support: 997 × 806 mm
frame: 1181 × 995 × 75 mm - Collection
- Tate
- Acquisition
- Purchased 1966
- Reference
- T00853
Catalogue entry
Asger Jorn b.1914
T00853 Le Timide Orgueilleux (The Timid Proud One) 1957
Inscr.‘Jorn 57’ t.r. and ‘Le Timide Orgueilleux Asger Jorn 57’ on back of millboard.
Oil on millboard, 39¼ x 31¾ (100 x 80).
Purchased from Peter Cochrane (Grant-in-Aid) 1966.
Coll. Purchased by Peter Cochrane from the artist through Arthur Tooth and Sons 1958.
Exh. Arnal et Jorn, Galerie Rive Gauche, Paris, June 1957 (17); The Exploration of Form, Arthur Tooth and Sons, January–February 1958 (7); I.C.A., April–May 1958 (31); Ten International Artists, Norfolk Contemporary Art Society, Norwich, June 1958 (11); Painting and Sculpture of a Decade, Tate Gallery, April–June 1964 (186, repr. p. 31 in colour); Kunsthalle, Basel, October–November 1964 (52); Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, December 1964–January 1965 (57); Louisiana Museum, February 1965 (65).
Lit. Virtus Schade, Asger Jorn, Copenhagen 1965, p. 73 and repr.
Repr. Apollo, LXVII, 1958, p. 89; Art International, V, April 1961, p. 34.
Published in The Tate Gallery Report 1966–1967, London 1967.
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