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Mystical Head: Earth
1918
Alexei Jawlensky (Russian, 1864-1941)
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  • Artist Name: Alexei Jawlensky (Russian, 1864-1941)
  • Title: Mystical Head: Earth
  • Date: 1918
  • Medium: Oil and pencil on cardboard
  • Dimensions: 7-3/4 x 7-1/4 in. (19.7 x 18.4 cm)
  • Credit Line: Norton Simon Museum, The Blue Four Galka Scheyer Collection
  • Accession Number: P.1953.111
  • Copyright: © Norton Simon Museum

Object Information

The artist, gift Christmas 1918 to;
Galka Scheyer;
Pasadena Art Institute, Pasadena, 1953-1954;
Pasadena Art Museum, Pasadena,1954-1975;
Norton Simon Museum, 1975.

A. v. Jawlensky

  • Kunsthütte zu Chemnitz, 1923-04 to 1923-04

Jawlensky exhibition

  • Stuttgart, Kunsthaus Schaller, 1923-06 to 1923-06

Jawlensky exhibition

  • Galerie Emil Richter, 1922-11-07 to

Olgemalde von Alexey von Jawlensky

  • Weimar, Landesmuseum, 1922-04-30 to 1922-06-01

Gesamt-Ausstellung Alexei von Jawlensky

  • Fritz Gurlitt (Gallery), 1920-06 to 1920-07
  • Munich, Galerie Hans Goltz, 1920-08-16 to 1920-09-11
  • Hannover, Kestner-Gesellschaft, 1920-09-30 to 1920-10-28
  • Frankfurt-am-Main, Galerie Schames, 1920-11 to 1920-12
  • Wiesbaden, Nassauischer Kunstverein und Wiesbadener Gesellschaft fur Bildende Kunste, 1921-01-09 to 1921-02
  • Barmen, Kunstverein/Ruhmeshalle, 1921-03 to 1921-04
  • Dusseldorf, Graphisches Kabinett J. B. Neumann, 1921-05 to 1921-06
  • Mannheim, Kunsthalle, 1921-11-06 to 1921-12-04
  • Essen, Kunstmuseum, 1922-02 to 1922-03

The Blue Four-Galka Scheyer Collection From The Norton Simon Museum

  • Henry Art Gallery, 1997-07-17 to 1997-10-05

Visions and Icons: the Art of Alexei Jawlensky

  • Norton Simon Museum, 1990-01-18 to 1991-04-14

The Spirit of Modernism: Galka Scheyer in the New World

  • Norton Simon Museum, 1994-11-17 to 1996-01-14

Permanent and Loan Collection, 1973

  • Pasadena Museum of Modern Art, 1973-01-30 to 1973-12-31

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

Alexei Jawlensky (1864-1941)

  • Norton Simon Museum, 2007-05-04 to 2007-11-05

My Four Kings: Galka Scheyer and the Blue Four

  • Norton Simon Museum, 2002-12-13 to 2003-04-14
  • Haas, Robert B., Du, p. 32
  • Alexej von Jawlensky, p. 146
  • The Blue Four Galka Scheyer Collection, Norton Simon Museum of Art at Pasadena, 1976, no. 139 pp. 52, 69
  • Jawlensky, Maria, Lucia Pieroni-Jawlensky, and Angelica Jawlensky, Alexej von Jawlensky: Catalogue Raisonné of the Oil Paintings, 1914-1933, 1992, no. 962
  • Weiler, Clemens, Alexej von Jawlensky, 1995, no. 236
  • Barnett, Vivian Endicott, The Blue Four Collection at the Norton Simon Museum, 2002, no. 154 pp. 140-141

Additional Artwork by Artist

Abstract Head: Small Head on Wood Alexei Jawlensky 1921
Head Alexei Jawlensky 1912
Head Inclined to the Right, with Closed Eyes Alexei Jawlensky c. 1922
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