Jawlensky's Variations are colored, almost abstract meditations upon a few unchanging forms distilled from tree shapes. They clearly foreshadow the icon-like quality of his later work, with its eternal repetition of meditative signs. In a letter he wrote to Galka Scheyer in 1919, Jawlensky said, "Klee did not approve of. . .my pictures. . . .he said they are too intellectual, too thought out. I think all of that is wrong."
Details
- Artist Name: Alexei Jawlensky (Russian, 1864-1941)
- Title: Variation: Easter
- Date: 1916
- Medium: Oil and pencil on textured wove paper mounted on cardboard
- Dimensions: 14-1/8 x 10-5/8 in. (36.0 x 27.0 cm)
- Credit Line: Norton Simon Museum, The Blue Four Galka Scheyer Collection
- Accession Number: P.1953.126
- Copyright: © Norton Simon Museum
Object Information
Galka Scheyer, retrieved from the wastebasket 1920;
Pasadena Art Institute, Pasadena, 1953-1954;
Pasadena Art Museum, Pasadena,1954-1975;
Norton Simon Museum, 1975.
The Blue Four: Feininger, Jawlensky, Kandinsky, Paul Klee
- Los Angeles, University of California, Art Department, 1933-11-13 to 1933-12-01
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: Feininger, Jawlensky, Kandinsky, Paul Klee
- Oakland Art Gallery, 1931-08 to 1931-09-14
Selections from the Galka E. Scheyer Collection
- Pasadena Art Museum, 1970-09-08 to 1970-12-17
Selections from the Galka E. Scheyer Blue Four Collection
- Pasadena Museum of Modern Art, 1973-10-02 to 1973-11-18
Abstract Art Show
- Mills College Art Gallery, 1939-10-19 to 1939-12-03
Alexei Jawlensky
- Norton Simon Museum, 1987-08-06 to 1987-12-13
Jawlensky: Meine liebe Galka!
- Wiesbaden, Museum Wiesbaden, 2004-10-23 to 2005-03-13
Feininger, Jawlensky, Kandinsky, Paul Klee. The Blue Four Galka E. Scheyer Collection
- Pasadena, Pasadena Art Museum, 1955-05-27 to 1955-08-30
Jawlensky and the Serial Image
- Irvine, University of California, University Art Gallery, 1966-03-11 to 1966-03-31
- Riverside, University of California, Art Gallery, 1966-04-04 to 1966-04-30
Visions and Icons: the Art of Alexei Jawlensky
- Norton Simon Museum, 1990-01-18 to 1991-04-14
Alexei Jawlensky (1864-1941)
- Norton Simon Museum, 2007-05-04 to 2007-11-05
The Galka Scheyer Collection: Klee, Nolde, Jawlensky, Moholy-Nagy, Schmidt-Rottluff, Schwitters, Archipenko, Kandinsky, Lissitzky, Feininger, Kirchner, Dix_1
- La Jolla, Art Center in La Jolla, 1960-07-05 to 1960-08-14
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 From The Norton Simon Museum
- Henry Art Gallery, 1997-07-17 to 1997-10-05
Permanent and Loan Collection, 1973
- Pasadena Museum of Modern Art, 1973-01-30 to 1973-12-31
My Four Kings: Galka Scheyer and the Blue Four
- Norton Simon Museum, 2002-12-13 to 2003-04-14
- The Blue Four Galka Scheyer Collection, Norton Simon Museum of Art at Pasadena, 1976, no. 128 p. 50
- Jawlensky, Maria, Lucia Pieroni-Jawlensky, and Angelica Jawlensky, Alexej von Jawlensky: Catalogue Raisonné of the Oil Paintings, 1914-1933, 1992, no. 776
- Barnett, Vivian Endicott, The Blue Four Collection at the Norton Simon Museum, 2002, no. 143 pp. 126-127
- Museum Wiesbaden, Jawlensky: Meine liebe Galka!, 2004, pp. 124, 127
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