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Astonishment
c. 1919
Alexei Jawlensky (Russian, 1864-1941)
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  • Artist Name: Alexei Jawlensky (Russian, 1864-1941)
  • Title: Astonishment
  • Date: c. 1919
  • Medium: Oil on wove paper mounted on heavy cardboard
  • Dimensions: 14-1/8 x 10-7/8 in. (35.9 x 27.6 cm)
  • Credit Line: Norton Simon Museum, The Blue Four Galka Scheyer Collection
  • Accession Number: P.1953.570
  • Copyright: © Norton Simon Museum

Object Information

The artist, to;
Galka Scheyer, by 1930s;
Pasadena Art Institute, Pasadena, 1953-1954;
Pasadena Art Museum, Pasadena,1954-1975;
Norton Simon Museum, 1975.

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

Jawlensky exhibition

  • Seattle, Cornish School, 1939-03 to 1939-03

The Blue Four: Feininger, Jawlensky, Kandinsky, Paul Klee

  • Santa Barbara, Faulkner Memorial Art Gallery, 1932-03-03 to 1932-03-13

The Blue Four: Feininger, Jawlensky, Kandinsky, Paul Klee

  • Arts Club of Chicago, 1932-04-01 to 1932-04-15
  • University of Chicago. Renaissance Society, 1932-04-16 to 1932-04-19

Jawlensky

  • Los Angeles, Stendahl Art Galleries, 1940-05-13 to 1940-06-01

The Blue Four: Feininger, Jawlensky, Kandinsky, Paul Klee

  • Oakland Art Gallery, 1931-08 to 1931-09-14

Abstract Art Show

  • Mills College Art Gallery, 1939-10-19 to 1939-12-03

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

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

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

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. 146 pp. 55, 70
  • Whitford, Frank, Das Portrait im Expressionismus, 1987, p. 27
  • Jawlensky, 1990, p. 22
  • Jawlensky, Maria, Lucia Pieroni-Jawlensky, and Angelica Jawlensky, Alexej von Jawlensky: Catalogue Raisonné of the Oil Paintings, 1914-1933, 1992, no. 1064
  • Weiler, Clemens, Alexej von Jawlensky, 1995, no. 264
  • Barnett, Vivian Endicott, The Blue Four Collection at the Norton Simon Museum, 2002, no. 171 pp. 157-158
  • Museum Wiesbaden, Jawlensky: Meine liebe Galka!, 2004, pp. 146-147

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