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Ulf Valde Jensen
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Ulf Valde Jensen was born on 27 April 1945 in Lillehammer, Norway. His path into art began with a year as a guest student at Konstfack in Stockholm in 1965, before he was admitted to the painting class at the École Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-Arts in Paris at the age of 21. He remained in Paris until around 1980, training further at Atelier 17 - the celebrated printmaking workshop - and at the studio of Johnny Friedlaender, one of the leading figures of post-war European graphic art. These formative years shaped both his technical repertoire and his visual sensibility.
Jensen's imagery draws on a personal synthesis of surrealism and Art Nouveau. Dreamlike figures, masks, and silhouettes inhabit compositions where decorative line and psychological suggestion coexist. His printmaking practice centres on metal graphics - etchings, engravings, and sugar aquatints - often combined in the same sheet. The technical demands of this approach, building layered textures through controlled acid biting and hand-worked lines, align with the rigour he absorbed from Friedlaender's atelier. In 1974, sixteen graphic sheets accompanied by prose texts by the Norwegian poet Arild Nyquist were published under the collective title "Eplehøst", an early marker of his interest in connecting image and text.
His works entered the collections of the National Gallery of Norway, the Henie-Onstad Art Centre, the Victoria and Albert Museum in London, the Blanton Museum of Art in Austin, and the Bibliothèque Nationale in Paris - a spread that underlines the international reception his printmaking found during the 1970s and 1980s. He debuted at the Høstutstillingen in Oslo in 1969, has shown at Kunstnerforbundet, and is a member of Norske Grafikere. Beyond prints and paintings, Jensen has executed substantial public commissions in Norway, including "Tenkegulv" (1990), a 72-square-metre floor decoration at the preclinical faculty building in Oslo, and the entrance section of the municipal building in Sandvika.
At auction, Jensen's work is sold almost exclusively through Grev Wedels Plass Auksjoner in Oslo, where all 30 items in our database originated. Price results for his works in the Auctionist database span from around NOK 1,000 to a top recorded sale of NOK 15,000 for the painting "Adam and Eve" (1970). Other recurring titles include figure compositions, silhouettes, and works on paper from the 1970s and late 1980s. His market presence on the Nordic auction circuit remains steady at a modest level, consistent with the secondary market for accomplished Norwegian graphic artists of his generation.