Alexej von Jawlensky (1864-1941)

Lisa Kmmel

細節

Alexej von Jawlensky (1864-1941)
Lisa Kmmel
signed 'A. Jawlensky' (lower left)
oil on canvas laid down on masonite
12.7/8 x 10¾ in. (32.5 x 27.2 cm.)
Painted circa 1930

來源

Aenne Abels Kunst-Galerie, Cologne.
Count d'Arquian, Belgium.
E. and A. Silberman Galleries, Inc., New York.
Acquired from the above by the family of the present owner, 20 March 1957.

出版

M. Jawlensky, L. Pieroni-Jawlensky and A. Jawlensky, Alexej von Jawlensky, Catalogue Raisonné of the Oil Paintings 1890-1914, London, 1992, vol. two, p. 437, no. 1330 (illustrated).

拍品專文

The present work is a portrait of Lisa Kmmel, a student of arts and crafts and an amateur painter. Jawlensky met her in 1927, and shortly thereafter, she began sitting for him as a model. As Jawlensky grew ill in the 1930s, Kmmel acted as his secretary and traveling companion until his death in 1941. In 1937, the artist, devastated by his progressive paralysis and by the inclusion of his works into the infamous Entartes Kunst exhibition, dictated his memoirs to Kmmel, who made the inventory of all the works left in his studio and reorganized Jawlensky's entire oeuvre.

In the images depicting Kmmel, Jawlensky typically focused on her head and top of shoulders, as shown in the present painting. The bright, non-naturalistic colors of her face accentuate her attractive features. The simplified treatment of Kmmel's face foreshadow Jawlensky's metaphysical paintings of abstract heads.