Many writers have noted Jawlensky's progressively religious concentration upon the human face during the last twenty years of his life. He expressed this spiritualized conception of humanity in a letter written in June 1938: "I knew that great art should only be painted with religious feeling. And that was something I could bring only to the human face. I realized that the artist must express...that within him which is divine. That is why the work of art is a visible God, and why art is 'a longing for God.'"
Details
- Artist Name: Alexei Jawlensky (Russian, 1864-1941)
- Title: Abstract Head: Life and Death
- Date: 1923
- Medium: Oil and pencil on cardboard
- Dimensions: 16-3/4 x 12-7/8 in. (42.5 x 32.7 cm)
- Credit Line: Norton Simon Museum, The Blue Four Galka Scheyer Collection
- Accession Number: P.1953.078
- Copyright: © Norton Simon Museum
Object Information
[Neue Galerie Fides, Dresden];
Galka Scheyer, probably by 1923;
Pasadena Art Institute, Pasadena, 1953-1954;
Pasadena Art Museum, Pasadena,1954-1975;
Norton Simon Museum, 1975.
Jawlensky exhibition
- Stuttgart, Kunsthaus Schaller, 1923-06 to 1923-06
Degenerate Art: The Attack on Modern Art in Nazi Germany, 1937
- Neue Galerie New York, 2014-03-13 to 2014-06-30
A. v. Jawlensky
- Kunsthütte zu Chemnitz, 1923-04 to 1923-04
Jawlensky
- Los Angeles, Stendahl Art Galleries, 1940-05-13 to 1940-06-01
The Blue Four: Feininger, Jawlensky, Kandinsky, Paul Klee
- Braxton Gallery, 1930-03-16 to 1930-03-31
The Blue Four: Feininger, Jawlensky, Kandinsky, Paul Klee
- New York, The Daniel Gallery, 1925-02-20 to 1925-03-10
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
Blue Four exhibition
- San Diego, San Diego Fine Arts Gallery, 1927-01 to 1927-02
- San Diego, San Diego Fine Arts Gallery, to
Paths to Abstraction: Pioneers of Early 20th Century Painting
- Norton Simon Museum, 1989-01-19 to 1990-01-14
The Blue Four: Feininger, Jawlensky, Kandinsky, Paul Klee
- Oakland Art Gallery, 1926-05-02 to 1926-06-15
The Blue Four: Feininger, Jawlensky, Kandinsky, Paul Klee
- Portland, Portland Art Association and the Museum of Art, 1927-04-08 to 1927-05-01
- Spokane, Spokane Art Association, 1927-05-15 to 1927-05-31
- San Francisco, California School of Fine Arts, 1927-03-01 to 1927-03-20
East Meets West: Russian Art from the 18th through the 20th Century
- Norton Simon Museum, 1987-10-01 to 1988-04-17
The Blue Four: Feininger, Jawlensky, Kandinsky, Paul Klee
- Los Angeles, University of California, Los Angeles, Art Department, 1926-11 to 1926-12-28
- Los Angeles, Los Angeles Museum, 1926-10 to
Blue Four exhibition
- Henry Art Gallery, 1927-10 to 1927-10
Selections from the Galka E. Scheyer Blue Four Collection
- Pasadena Museum of Modern Art, 1973-10-02 to 1973-11-18
Selections from Feininger, Jawlensky, Kandinsky, Paul Klee. The Blue Four Galka E. Scheyer Collection
- Seattle Art Museum, 1956-10-10 to 1956-11-04
- Portland, Portland Art Museum, 1956-11-08 to 1956-11-30
- , 1957-01-01 to 1957-01-31
- Marion Koogler McNay Art Institute, 1957-03-02 to 1957-04-01
- Kansas City, William Rockhill Nelson Gallery, 1957-11-15 to 1957-12-15
- San Francisco Museum of Art, 1958-01-14 to 1958-02-23
- Vancouver Art Gallery, 1956-07 to 1956-08-31
Klee, Kandinsky, Jawlensky: Works from the Bauhaus Period
- School of Art Gallery, The Ohio State University, 1966-11-11 to 1966-11-30
Die Blaue Vier: Feininger, Jawlensky, Kandinsky, Klee in der Neuen Welt
- Kunstmuseum Bern, 1997-12-05 to 1998-03-01
- Dusseldorf, Kunstsammlung Nordhein-Westfalen, 1998-03-28 to 1998-06-28
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
My Four Kings: Galka Scheyer and the Blue Four
- Norton Simon Museum, 2002-12-13 to 2003-04-14
The Blue Four and Their Contemporaries
- Norton Simon Museum, 1991-06-20 to 1992-05-24
The Blue Four
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
Alexei Jawlensky (1864-1941)
- Norton Simon Museum, 2007-05-04 to 2007-11-05
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
- Alexej von Jawlensky, p. 154
- The Blue Four Galka Scheyer Collection, Norton Simon Museum of Art at Pasadena, 1976, no. 157 pp. 56, 73
- Jawlensky, 1990, cover
- Jawlensky, Maria, Lucia Pieroni-Jawlensky, and Angelica Jawlensky, Alexej von Jawlensky: Catalogue Raisonné of the Oil Paintings, 1914-1933, 1992, no. 1212
- Weiler, Clemens, Alexej von Jawlensky, 1995, no. 299
- The Blue Four. Feininger, Jawlensky, Kandinsky, and Klee in the New World, 1997, no. 56 pp. 165, 343
- Barnett, Vivian Endicott, The Blue Four Collection at the Norton Simon Museum, 2002, no. 216 pp. 186-187
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