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Property of a Private Collector, London

Alexei Jawlensky

Abstrakter Kopf: Greco Erlebnis (Abstract Head: Greco Experience)

Auction Closed

March 2, 03:45 PM GMT

Estimate

400,000 - 600,000 GBP

Lot Details

Description

Alexei Jawlensky

1864 - 1941


Abstrakter Kopf: Greco Erlebnis (Abstract Head: Greco Experience)

signed A.J. (lower left) and dated 31. (lower right); signed AJawlensky, titled and dated 1931 on the reverse

oil on board

42.6 by 33cm., 16¾ by 13in.

Framed: 70.9 by 61.3cm., 27⅞ by 24⅛in.

Painted in 1931.

Otto Ritschl, Wiesbaden

Galerie Beyeler, Switzerland

Sidney Janis Gallery, New York (acquired by 1957 and until circa 1969)

Private Collection

Sale: Hauswedell & Nolte, Hamburg, 8th & 9th June 1979, lot 542

Salis & Vertes, Salzburg & St. Moritz

Sale: Sotheby's, London, 19th June 2007, lot 28

Purchased at the above sale by the present owner

New York, Sidney Janis Gallery, Alexej von Jawlensky, 1957, no. 42
Pasadena, Pasadena Museum; Waltham, Rose Art Museum, Brandeis University; Winnipeg, Winnipeg Art Gallery; Berkeley, University Art Gallery, University of California; Albuquerque, University Art Gallery, University of New Mexico & New Orleans, Isaac Delgado Museum of Art, Alexej Jawlensky: A Centennial Exhibition, 1964-66, no. 170
New York, Sidney Janis Gallery, Two Generations: Picasso to Pollock, 1966
The Artist's Cahier Noir, listed p. 12
Clemens Weiler, Alexei Jawlensky, Cologne, 1959, no. 351, illustrated p. 252
Maria Jawlensky, Lucia Pieroni-Jawlwnsky & Angelica Jawlensky, Catalogue raisonné of the oil paintings, 1914-1933, London, 1992, vol. 2, no 1360, illustrated p. 460