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Lot Essay
Rotkopf was exhibited as early as September 1910, in the second exhibition of the Neue Knstlervereinigung in Munich. Jawlensky and his friends Kandinsky, Mnter, Werefkin, Kanoldt and Erbslöh had created the group one year before with the aim of organizing exhibitions, lectures and publications based around their Murnau pictures.
Like the first, the second NKV exhibition was held at Thannhauser's avant-gardist Moderne Galerie in Munich. Contributions were also invited from Braque, Picasso, Rouault, Derain, Vlaminck, and Van Dongen, amongst others. Later the picture was purchased by the powerful and celebrated dealer Herwarth Walden in Berlin, and was exhibited in one of the numerous shows he held in his Galerie Der Sturm. It is likely that it was here that the painting was bought by the family of the present owner.
The reverse of Rotkopf bears an handwritten label of Galka Scheyer, who was Jawlensky's secretary, agent and dealer and was responsible for arranging exhibitions of his works first in Germany and later in America. Jawlensky, Feininger, Kandinsky and Klee formed at her instigation the group Die Blaue Vier, which she promoted in America. She staged several Blaue Vier exhibitions at various venues, together with lecture. Her own collection of paintings by the Blaue Vier is now in the Norton Simeon Museum, Pasadena, California.
Like the first, the second NKV exhibition was held at Thannhauser's avant-gardist Moderne Galerie in Munich. Contributions were also invited from Braque, Picasso, Rouault, Derain, Vlaminck, and Van Dongen, amongst others. Later the picture was purchased by the powerful and celebrated dealer Herwarth Walden in Berlin, and was exhibited in one of the numerous shows he held in his Galerie Der Sturm. It is likely that it was here that the painting was bought by the family of the present owner.
The reverse of Rotkopf bears an handwritten label of Galka Scheyer, who was Jawlensky's secretary, agent and dealer and was responsible for arranging exhibitions of his works first in Germany and later in America. Jawlensky, Feininger, Kandinsky and Klee formed at her instigation the group Die Blaue Vier, which she promoted in America. She staged several Blaue Vier exhibitions at various venues, together with lecture. Her own collection of paintings by the Blaue Vier is now in the Norton Simeon Museum, Pasadena, California.