Asger Jorn
Danish, 1914 - 1973L'Oiseau Rare, 1945
Not on view
Etching on paper
Dimensions4 1/2 × 6 in. (11.4 × 15.2 cm)
Gift from the Collection of Myron and Barbara Levine, 2018.106
According to the Levines’ daughter Sura Levine, Professor of Art History at Hampshire College: “On trips to New York, they would inevitably go to the Lefebre Gallery to look at and purchase works by CoBrA artists. More locally, they visited the Donald Morris and Gertrude Castle galleries in Detroit quite regularly, and Ann Arbor gallerist Alice Simsar was both their dealer and a close friend. Bobbie first learned about prints and particularly wood engravings and etchings from her brother Misch Kohn and it was through him that our parents began to specialize in works on paper. Of course, there was also a financial element. They could purchase prints more easily than they could unique objects.”
