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Head
1912
Alexei Jawlensky (Russian, 1864-1941)
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A bold, black and white drawing of a figure in three-quarter view, shown from the shoulders up, resting their head in their hand
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Details

  • Artist Name: Alexei Jawlensky (Russian, 1864-1941)
  • Title: Head
  • Date: 1912
  • Medium: India ink on laid paper
  • Dimensions: 18-1/4 x 14-7/8 in. (46.4 x 37.8 cm)
  • Credit Line: Norton Simon Museum, The Blue Four Galka Scheyer Collection
  • Accession Number: P.1953.151
  • Copyright: © Norton Simon Museum

Object Information

Permanent Collection Exhibition

Visions and Icons: the Art of Alexei Jawlensky

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

Alexei Jawlensky: A Centennial Exhibition

  • Pasadena Art Museum, 1964-04-14 to 1964-05-19
  • Rose Art Museum, 1964-11-09 to 1964-12-13
  • Winnipeg Art Gallery, 1965-01-04 to 1965-02-07
  • University of California, Berkeley Art Museum, 1965-03-01 to 1965-03-31
  • University of New Mexico, Art Museum, 1965-10-17 to 1965-11-23
  • Isaac Delgado Museum of Art, 1965-12-07 to 1966-01-16

Selections from the Permanent Collection

  • Pasadena Art Museum, 1971-07-13 to 1971-09-19

Jawlensky: Meine liebe Galka!

  • Wiesbaden, Museum Wiesbaden, 2004-10-23 to 2005-03-13

The Spirit of Modernism: Galka Scheyer in the New World

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

Thirty European Modernists

  • Oakland Art Gallery, 1928-01-04 to 1928-01-29

Feininger, Jawlensky, Kandinsky, Paul Klee. The Blue Four Galka E. Scheyer Collection

  • Pasadena, Pasadena Art Museum, 1955-05-27 to 1955-08-30

European Modernists

  • Los Angeles, California School of Fine Arts, 1927-04 to ?-

Alexei Jawlensky (1864-1941)

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

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

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. 184 pp. 62, 65
  • Weiler, Clemens, Alexej von Jawlensky, 1995, p. 62
  • Jawlensky, Maria, Lucia Pieroni-Jawlensky, and Angelica Jawlensky Bianconi, Alexej von Jawlensky: Catalogue Raisonné of the Watercolours and Drawings, 1998, no. 40
  • Barnett, Vivian Endicott, The Blue Four Collection at the Norton Simon Museum, 2002, no. 116 pp. 94-95
  • Museum Wiesbaden, Jawlensky: Meine liebe Galka!, 2004, pp. 54, 56

Additional Artwork by Artist

Abstract Head: Small Head on Wood Alexei Jawlensky 1921
Head Inclined to the Right, with Closed Eyes Alexei Jawlensky c. 1922
Helene Alexei Jawlensky 1916
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