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Portrait of Galka Scheyer
1919-1921
Alexei Jawlensky (Russian, 1864-1941)
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A black and white drawing of a woman with closed eyes shown from the chest up. In the lower left corner, an inscription of the artist's initials
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  • Artist Name: Alexei Jawlensky (Russian, 1864-1941)
  • Title: Portrait of Galka Scheyer
  • Date: 1919-1921
  • Medium: Pencil on tan wove paper from sketch pad
  • Dimensions: 6-3/8 x 4-3/8 in. (16.1 x 11cm)
  • Credit Line: Norton Simon Museum, The Blue Four Galka Scheyer Collection
  • Accession Number: P.1953.590
  • Copyright: © Norton Simon Museum

Object Information

Born of the Line: The Significance of the Line in the Oeuvre of Alexej von Jawlensky

  • Museo Cantonale d' Arte, 2007-09-29 to 2008-01-07

The Blue Four

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 Spirit of Modernism: Galka Scheyer in the New World

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

Gaze: Portraiture After Ingres

  • Norton Simon Museum, 2009-10-30 to 2010-04-05

The Blue Four-Galka Scheyer Collection From The Norton Simon Museum

  • Henry Art Gallery, 1997-07-17 to 1997-10-05

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. 191 p. 65
  • The Blue Four. Feininger, Jawlensky, Kandinsky, and Klee in the New World, 1997, no. 47 pp. 37, 342
  • Jawlensky, Maria, Lucia Pieroni-Jawlensky, and Angelica Jawlensky Bianconi, Alexej von Jawlensky: Catalogue Raisonné of the Watercolours and Drawings, 1998, no. 285
  • Barnett, Vivian Endicott, The Blue Four Collection at the Norton Simon Museum, 2002, no. 175 p. 160
  • Franciolli, Marco, Angelika Affentranger-Kirchrath and Gottlieb Leinz, Alexej von Jawlensky - Aus der Linie geboren: Der Zeichner Alexej von Jawlensky im Dialog mit Matisse, Hodler und Lehmbruck, 2007, cat. 74 p. 144

Additional Artwork by Artist

Abstract Head: Small Head on Wood Alexei Jawlensky 1921
Head Alexei Jawlensky 1912
Head Inclined to the Right, with Closed Eyes Alexei Jawlensky c. 1922
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