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Heilandsgesicht: Kopf "Lichte Ruhe"
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                                            Alexej von Jawlensky (1864-1941) 
Heilandsgesicht: Kopf "Lichte Ruhe"
signed with the initials 'A.J.' (lower left)
oil and pencil on board
14¼ x 10 5/8 in. (36.2 x 27 cm.)
Painted circa 1921
                                        
                                    Heilandsgesicht: Kopf "Lichte Ruhe"
signed with the initials 'A.J.' (lower left)
oil and pencil on board
14¼ x 10 5/8 in. (36.2 x 27 cm.)
Painted circa 1921
Provenance
                                        
                                            The artist's studio.
Paul Erich Küppers (Assistant Director of Kestner-Gesellschaft, Hannover, and first husband of Sophie Lissitzky-Küppers), by the early 1920s.
Anonymous sale, Sotheby's, London, 3 July 1974, lot 94.
Acquired at the above sale by the family of the present owner.
                                        
                                    Paul Erich Küppers (Assistant Director of Kestner-Gesellschaft, Hannover, and first husband of Sophie Lissitzky-Küppers), by the early 1920s.
Anonymous sale, Sotheby's, London, 3 July 1974, lot 94.
Acquired at the above sale by the family of the present owner.
Literature
                                        
                                            M. Jawlensky, L. Pieroni-Jawlensky & A. Jawlensky, Alexej von Jawlensky: Catalogue Raisonné of the Oil Paintings, Volume Two 1914-1933, London, 1992, no. 1150 (illustrated p. 342). 
                                        
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