This work was a birthday gift from Jawlensky to Scheyer in 1932. The artist inscribed on the reverse that it had been done "with an ill hand, but with ardent feeling."
Details
- Artist Name: Alexei Jawlensky (Russian, 1864-1941)
- Title: Abstract Head
- Date: 1932
- Medium: Oil on wove paper mounted on cardboard
- Dimensions: 5-5/8 x 4-1/2 in. (14.3 x 11.4 cm)
- Credit Line: Norton Simon Museum, The Blue Four Galka Scheyer Collection
- Accession Number: P.1953.107
- Copyright: © Norton Simon Museum
Object Information
Galka Scheyer;
Pasadena Art Institute, Pasadena, 1953-1954;
Pasadena Art Museum, Pasadena,1954-1975;
Norton Simon Museum, 1975.
Alexei Jawlensky (1864-1941)
- Norton Simon Museum, 2007-05-04 to 2007-11-05
Jawlensky: Meine liebe Galka!
- Wiesbaden, Museum Wiesbaden, 2004-10-23 to 2005-03-13
Permanent and Loan Collection, 1973
- Pasadena Museum of Modern Art, 1973-01-30 to 1973-12-31
Visions and Icons: the Art of Alexei Jawlensky
- Norton Simon Museum, 1990-01-18 to 1991-04-14
The Blue Four-Galka Scheyer Collection From The Norton Simon Museum
- Henry Art Gallery, 1997-07-17 to 1997-10-05
Bauhaus Painters; Spirit of Modernism: Wassily Kandinsky, Paul Klee, Lyonel Feininger, Laszlo Moholy-Nagy, El Lissitzky, Oskar Schlemmer, Alexander Archipenko, Alexei Jawlensky and Others
- Seoul, Ho-Am Art Museum, 1996-02-08 to 1996-04-28
The Spirit of Modernism: Galka Scheyer in the New World
- Norton Simon Museum, 1994-11-17 to 1996-01-14
- The Blue Four Galka Scheyer Collection, Norton Simon Museum of Art at Pasadena, 1976, no. 162 p. 56
- Jawlensky, Maria, Lucia Pieroni-Jawlensky, and Angelica Jawlensky, Alexej von Jawlensky: Catalogue Raisonné of the Oil Paintings, 1914-1933, 1992, no. 1392
- Barnett, Vivian Endicott, The Blue Four Collection at the Norton Simon Museum, 2002, no. 225 p. 194
- Museum Wiesbaden, Jawlensky: Meine liebe Galka!, 2004, pp. 202, 204
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