Literature: Per Hovdenakk: Egill Jacobsen 1, no. 1943/10. Photograph of the artist with the painting, p. 105.Exhibited: “Egill Jacobsen”, Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Humlebæk, November 28, 1970 - January 17, 1971, cat. no. 23.Exhibited: Biennial of Sao Paolo 1971.Provenance: Author and art critic Gunnar Jespersen, Holte. Not previously offered for sale.Gunnar Jespersen (1922–1994) was trained as a journalist. From 1958 he worked as an art critic at the B.T., at the Berlingske Tidende and later on at the Politiken. Gunnar Jespersen was an early and crucial promoter of Danish post-war art, not least because of his important book “De Abstrakte” (1967) on a number of the artists belonging to the Cobra movement. He was a personal friend of several of the artists he wrote about, including Egill Jacobsen whom he met in the late 1950's. Due to Gunnar Jespersen's efforts, an important selection of Egill Jacobsen's early works, including the present work offered for sale, were preserved and saved from destruction after having been stored carelessly for a number of years in an outhouse by the artist's studio. The present painting was given to Gunnar Jespersen by Egill Jacobsen in acknowledgement of his efforts in this connection.