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Property from an Esteemed Private Collection

Alexej von Jawlensky

Variation: Seelenkräfte - Triptychon II (Variation: Soul forces - Triptych II)

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March 5, 04:45 PM GMT

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60,000 - 80,000 GBP

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Property from an Esteemed Private Collection

Alexej von Jawlensky

1864 - 1941


Variation: Seelenkräfte - Triptychon II (Variation: Soul forces - Triptych II)

signed indistinctly with artist's initials A.J. (lower left); signed A. Jawlenksy, titleddated 1919. and numbered N. 24 (on the reverse)

oil and pencil on linen-finished paper mounted on board

36.2 by 26.9 cm. 14¼ by 10⅝ in.

Framed: 51.6 by 42.4 cm. 20¼ by 16¾ in.

Executed in 1919.

Kunsthaus Schaller, Stuttgart

Hanna Bekker vom Rath, Frankfurt (acquired by 1940)

Stuttgarter Kunstkabinett, Stuttgart, 28-29 May 1957, lot 354

Galerie Aenne Abels, Cologne

Galerie Jacques Fricker, Paris (acquired by 1958 and until at least 1966)

Heinz Rühmann, Germany

Wolfgang Ketterer, Munich, May 1979, lot 582

Detlef Rosenbach, Hanover, 1979, lot 217

Wolfgang Ketterer, Munich, 1 June 1981, lot 674

Sotheby's, London, 1 April 1982, lot 313

Private Collection, London (acquired from the above sale)

Thence by descent to the present owners

Weimar, Staatliches Bauhaus and Berlin, Buch- und Kunstheim K. & E. Twardy, Alexey von Jawlensky, 1920-21, no. 81, p. 10

Chemnitz, Kunsthütte, Alexej Jawlensky, 1923, no. 258, n.p.

Stuttgart, Kunsthaus Schaller, Alexej Jawlensky, 1923

Cologne, Galerie Aenne Abels, A. Jawlensky, 1958, no. 25, n.p.

Berlin, Haus am Waldsee, Alexej von Jawlensky, 1958, no. 52, n.p., illustrated (titled Variation: Seelenkräfte)

Recklinghausen, Städtische Kunsthalle, Variationen, 1966, no. 85, n.p., illustrated

London, Courtauld Gallery and Sheffield, Graves Art Gallery, Modernist Art from the Emery Collection, 1999, no. 4, p. 16, illustrated in colour

Lausanne, Fondation de l'Hermitage, Jawlensky en Suisse 1914-1921, 2001

London, Courtauld Gallery, 2002-3 (extended loan)

Bielefeld, Kunsthalle, Der Blaue Reiter - Avantgarde und Volkskunst, 2003, n.n., p. 129, illustrated in colour

Chichester, Pallant House Gallery and Norwich, Sainsbury Centre for Visual Arts, Eye-Music: Kandinsky, Klee and all that Jazz, 2007, no. 20, pp. 90-1, illustrated in colour

Chemnitz, Museum Gunzenhauser, JAWLENSKY neu gesehen, 2013-14, no. 59, pp. 234-35, illustrated in colour

Clemens Weiler, Alexej Jawlensky, Cologne, 1959, no. 680, p. 275, illustrated (titled Seelenkräfte II)

Clemens Weiler, Alexej Jawlensky. Heads, Faces, Meditations, London, 1970, no. 1274, p. 135

Maria Jawlensky, Lucia Pieroni-Jawlensky and Angelica Jawlensky, Alexej von Jawlensky: Catalogue Raisonné of the Oil Paintings, 1914-1933, vol. II, London, 1992, no. 1095, pp. 310 and 316, illustrated in colour