The Mediterranean resort of Bordighera, famous for its sunshine and palm trees, had already been portrayed many times by the Impressionists Monet and Renoir when Jawlensky traveled there on holiday in March 1914. Painted on the back of this sheet is a sunny interior with an open window, perhaps the artist’s hotel room. Though a bright green spray of palm fronds occupies the center foreground of the recto composition, more somber colors—for stone pines, rooftops, and the sea—predominate. A Russian citizen, Jawlensky had settled in Munich in 1896 and begun exhibiting with the Expressionist Blaue Reiter (Blue Rider) group there in 1912; he was expelled from Germany a few months after painting this picture, upon the outbreak of World War I.
Details
- Artist Name: Alexei Jawlensky (Russian, 1864-1941)
- Title: Black Tree - Bordighera
- Date: 1914
- Medium: Oil on cardboard
- Dimensions: 20-7/8 x 19-3/8 in. (53.0 x 49.2 cm)
- Credit Line: Norton Simon Museum, The Blue Four Galka Scheyer Collection
- Accession Number: P.1953.571
- Copyright: © Norton Simon Museum
Object Information
Galka Scheyer, by the 1930s;
Pasadena Art Institute, Pasadena, 1953-1954;
Pasadena Art Museum, Pasadena,1954-1975;
Norton Simon Museum, 1975.
Alexei Jawlensky
- Norton Simon Museum, 1987-08-06 to 1987-12-13
Genoa-St. Petersburg. Kandinsky Vrubel' Jawlensky and Russian Artists in Liguria
- Genova, Italy, Palazzo Ducale, 2001-10-27 to 2002-03-03
The Blue Four and Their Contemporaries
- Norton Simon Museum, 1991-06-20 to 1992-05-24
Permanent and Loan Collection, 1973
- Pasadena Museum of Modern Art, 1973-01-30 to 1973-12-31
Jawlensky exhibition
- Seattle, Cornish School, 1939-03 to 1939-03
Homage to Jawlensky
- New York, Nierendorf Gallery, 1939-11-15 to
The Blue Four: Feininger, Jawlensky, Kandinsky, Paul Klee
- Santa Barbara, Faulkner Memorial Art Gallery, 1932-03-03 to 1932-03-13
Visions and Icons: the Art of Alexei Jawlensky
- Norton Simon Museum, 1990-01-18 to 1991-04-14
Feininger, Jawlensky, Kandinsky, Paul Klee. The Blue Four Galka E. Scheyer Collection
- Pasadena, Pasadena Art Museum, 1955-05-27 to 1955-08-30
Alexei Jawlensky (1864-1941)
- Norton Simon Museum, 2007-05-04 to 2007-11-05
The Spirit of Modernism: Galka Scheyer in the New World
- Norton Simon Museum, 1994-11-17 to 1996-01-14
Selections from the Permanent Collection
- Pasadena Art Museum, 1971-07-13 to 1971-09-19
The Blue Four-Galka Scheyer Collection From The Norton Simon Museum
- Henry Art Gallery, 1997-07-17 to 1997-10-05
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
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
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. 114 pp. 45, 47, 48
- Jawlensky, 1990, p. 14
- Jawlensky, Maria; Lucia Pieroni-Jawlensky, and Angelica Jawlensky, Alexej von Jawlensky: Catalogue Raisonné of the Oil Paintings, 1890-1914, 1991, no. 630
- Kandinsky, Vrubel´, Jawlensky: e gli artisti russi a Genova e nelle riviere: passaggio in Liguria / a, 2001, cat. 203, 203a pp. 286, 288
- Barnett, Vivian Endicott, The Blue Four Collection at the Norton Simon Museum, 2002, no. 129 pp. 108-109
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