Literature: Guy Atkins: “Jorn in Scandinavia 1930–1953”, London 1968, no. 577, reproduced p. 380. Provenance: Børge Munch Nielsen, Copenhagen. Provenance: Private collection, Denmark.

Jorn spent the summer of 1948 together with some of his fellow artists, including Ejler Bille and Egill Jacobsen, on the small island of Hjarnø in Horsens Fjord. However, much of the visual content that absorbed him came from his trip to Djerba in Tunisia, from which he had just returned. With his light and immediate expression, several of the figure compositions from this period manifest a restless energy that demonstrates the potent creative field in which Jorn found himself – not just in relation to his own artistic maturation, but also as one of the key international figures in the establishment of CoBrA.