Exhibited: Herning Kunstmuseum, 1995.Exhibited: “Cobra - 50 år”, Kunsthallen Brandts Klædefabrik, Odense, June - August 1998.Exhibited: “Cobra - 50 år”, Arken Museum for Moderne Kunst, Ishøj, Denmark,1998.Provenance: Acquired directly from the artist by the present owner.In the revised catalogue of Egill Jacobsen's work Per Hovdenakk writes:“The idea behind using the mask in the composition of a paintingis to provide the colours with a supporting structure, in order to create a rhythmical basis for the disposition of the colours. For Egill Jacobsen, the mask cannot be associated with one single physiognomy in particular; the mask is rather the face of all faces. The mask should not hide the face behind, as the Carnival mask does, but rather should express and make things visible. The mask is a sign, a synthesis. The basic forms of the mask consistin quick curves, oblique verticals and floating triangles. The elements are painted with the colours still visible in the brushstrokes. At times, the mask resembles rhythmical exercises in the geometry of spontaneity”.