ID 1059703
Lot 740 | ALEXEJ VON JAWLENSKY (1864-1941)
Estimate value
$ 300 000 – 500 000
Mysticher Kopf: Das Staunen
oil on board laid down on panel
15 ¾ x 12 1⁄8 in. (39.6 x 30.8 cm.)
Painted in 1917
Provenance
Estate of the artist.
Leonard Hutton Galleries, New York.
Private collection, California.
Rod Steiger, Los Angeles; Estate sale, Sotheby's, New York, 7 May 2003, lot 223.
Acquired at the above sale by the late owner.
Literature
C. Weiler, Alexej Jawlensky: Köpfe, Gesichte, Meditationen, Hanau, 1970, p. 143, no. 172 (titled Frauenkopf (Zurich) mit rotem Mund. M.K).
M. Jawlensky, L. Pieroni-Jawlensky and A. Jawlensky, Alexej von Jawlensky: Catalogue Raisonné of the Oil Paintings, 1914-1933, London, 1992, vol. II, p. 193, no. 873 (illustrated).
Exhibited
New York, Leonard Hutton Galleries, A Centennial Exhibition of Paintings by Alexej Jawlensky, February-March 1965, no. 39 (titled Medium Size Head: Astonishment).
New York, Leonard Hutton Galleries, Jawlensky: Father and Son, March-May 1987, p. 36, no. 46 (illustrated in color; titled Das Staunen).
| Applied technique: | Oil on panel |
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| Art style: | Expressionism |
| Genre: | Portrait |
| Place of origin: | Western Europe, Germany, Europe |
| Auction house category: | Paintings |
| Applied technique: | Oil on panel |
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| Art style: | Expressionism |
| Genre: | Portrait |
| Place of origin: | Western Europe, Germany, Europe |
| Auction house category: | Paintings |
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