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Grosse Meditation
Details
Alexej von Jawlensky (1864-1941)
Grosse Meditation
signed with the initials 'A.J.' (lower left); dated '37' (lower right); inscribed by Lisa Kümmel 'A.Jawlensky 1937 V N.6' (on the reverse of the artist's mount)
oil on linen finish paper laid down on the artist's mount
image: 10 x 6 7/8in. (25.3 x 17.5cm.);
mount: 15½ x 10in. (39.3 x 25.4cm.)
Painted in May 1937
Grosse Meditation
signed with the initials 'A.J.' (lower left); dated '37' (lower right); inscribed by Lisa Kümmel 'A.Jawlensky 1937 V N.6' (on the reverse of the artist's mount)
oil on linen finish paper laid down on the artist's mount
image: 10 x 6 7/8in. (25.3 x 17.5cm.);
mount: 15½ x 10in. (39.3 x 25.4cm.)
Painted in May 1937
Provenance
The artist's studio.
Galka Scheyer, Hollywood, by 1939.
Anon. sale, Los Angeles, 1954, lot 3, no. 22.
Alfred E. Stendahl, Los Angeles.
Mr & Mrs Lorser Feitelson, Los Angeles, by whom acquired from the above on 17 November 1954.
George Fain, New York.
Galerie Orangerie-Reinz, Cologne.
Anon. sale, Christie's New York, 19 May 1981, lot 250.
Anon. sale, Sotheby's Munich, 8 June 1988, lot 250.
Anon. sale, Neumeister Moderne, Munich, 25 May 1991, lot 159.
Galka Scheyer, Hollywood, by 1939.
Anon. sale, Los Angeles, 1954, lot 3, no. 22.
Alfred E. Stendahl, Los Angeles.
Mr & Mrs Lorser Feitelson, Los Angeles, by whom acquired from the above on 17 November 1954.
George Fain, New York.
Galerie Orangerie-Reinz, Cologne.
Anon. sale, Christie's New York, 19 May 1981, lot 250.
Anon. sale, Sotheby's Munich, 8 June 1988, lot 250.
Anon. sale, Neumeister Moderne, Munich, 25 May 1991, lot 159.
Literature
M. Jawlensky, L. Pieroni-Jawlensky & A. Jawlensky, Alexej von Jawlensky, Catalogue raisonné of the oil paintings, vol. III, 1934-1937, no. 2193 (illustrated p. 382).
Exhibited
Pasadena, CA, Art Museum, Alexej Jawlensky: A Centennial Exhibition, April-May 1964, no. 191. This exhibition later travelled to Waltham, Rose Art Museum; Winnipeg, Winnipeg Art Gallery; Berkeley, University Art Gallery; Albuquerque, University Art Gallery and New Orleans, Isaac Delgado Museum of Art.
Essen, Galerie Neher, Gabriele Münter und Ihre Zeit, 1990 (illustrated in colour in the catalogue p. 115).
Essen, Galerie Neher, Gabriele Münter und Ihre Zeit, 1990 (illustrated in colour in the catalogue p. 115).
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