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THE EUROPEAN AVANT-GARDE: A PRIVATE FAMILY COLLECTION
Auction Closed
July 28, 08:20 PM GMT
Estimate
250,000 - 350,000 GBP
Lot Details
Description
THE EUROPEAN AVANT-GARDE: A PRIVATE FAMILY COLLECTION
ALEXEJ VON JAWLENSKY
1864 - 1941
HEILANDSGESICHTE: AUFERSTEHUNG ODER DAS NEUE SEHEN II
(SAVIOUR’S FACE: RESURRECTION OR THE NEW SEEING II)
signed A.J. (lower left)
oil and pencil on paper laid down on board
37.5 by 28.3cm., 14¾ by 11⅛in.
Painted in 1918.
Dr Hermann Bode, Steinhude (acquired by the early 1920s)
Private Collection (by descent from the above. Sold: Christie’s, London, 11th October 2001, lot 37)
Purchased at the above sale
M. Jawlensky, L. Pieroni-Jawlensky & A. Jawlensky, Alexej von Jawlensky, Catalogue Raisonné of the Oil Paintings, 1914-1933, London, 1992, vol. II, no. 993, illustrated p. 262 (titled Heilandsgesicht: Auferstehung oder Das neue Leben II and with incorrect medium)
Zurich, Salon Wolfsberg, Maler aus Ascona, 1919
Sprengel Museum, Hanover (on loan)
Hanover, Kestner-Gesellschaft, Zeitgenössische Kunst aus Hannoverschem Privatbesitz, 1954, no. 70a
Hanover, Kunstverein, Die Pelikan-Sammlung, 1963, no. 50, illustrated in the catalogue (titled Heilandsgesichte: Auferstehung oder Das neue Leben II)
Munich, Städtische Galerie im Lenbachhaus, Die Pelikan-Sammlung, 1965, no. 54, illustrated in the catalogue (titled Heilandsgesichte: Auferstehung oder Das neue Leben II)
Berlin, Schloss Charlottenburg, Grosse Orangerie, Zeichen des Glaubens-Geist der Avantgarde, 1980, illustrated in the catalogue