Asger Jorn: Fantasy Animals, 1952. Unsigned. Oil on canvas. 79 x 98 cm. Fantasy Animals, 1952. Unsigned. Oil on canvas. 79 x 98 cm. Literature: Guy Atkins: "Jorn in Scandinavia 1930-1953", London, 1968, no. 780.Provenance: Galerie Birch, Copenhagen. Acquired here by the present owners father. The period between 1951-1953 where Asger Jorn struggles through a serious illness also marks a significant revitalization of his art. During this period a formation takes place of his perpetual focus on the image as an independent expression separate of linguistic role models, and it is precisely here where he defines his personal, expressionistic style. In the book "Held og Hasard? (Luck and Chance) (1963) Jorn later summarized how the extreme fear and desperation in a paradoxical way can become something new, vital and positive: "You can fall so deep that you begin to fall upward."In 1952 Jorn is released from the hospital and settles in Silkeborg. From this point in time his paintings move away from the oppressive darkness that had dominated the prior years and instead moved toward the light. In his book on Jorn from 1965 the writer Virtus Schade gives a characteristic of Jorn's paintings from the early 1950s: "In the paintings the colour becomes stronger. Red, yellow, green. Creatures from the fumes of the witch cauldron of Snow White?s Queen evoke both fear and laughter. As if they were painted with coloured oil stains in a puddle of water. You stir the puddle with a stick, and in the wake of the stick the most curious, multi-coloured shapes reveal themselves. It is as if he has brought forward creatures that already existed within the canvas. More conjured than painted. In other beings there is a calmness and noble harmony despite the colour that is stronger than he what has used before" (Schade p. 62). Estimate DKK : 1000000