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ALEXEJ VON JAWLENSKY (1864-1941)

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Lot 10 | ALEXEJ VON JAWLENSKY (1864-1941)
ALEXEJ VON JAWLENSKY (1864-1941)

Frau mit Fächer (Frau aus Turkestan)

signed 'A. Jawlensky' (upper right); signed again, inscribed and numbered 'A. Jawlensky Frau mit Fächer N.47' (on the reverse)

oil on board

26 7⁄8 x 19 7⁄8 in. (69 x 50.5 cm.)

Painted in 1912





Provenance

Galka Scheyer, Hollywood, by whom acquired directly from the artist; Compulsory sale, U.S. Department of Justice, Office of Alien Property, Los Angeles, 29 September 1954, lot 5, no. 36.

(Probably) Sam & Audrey Levin, St Louis, Missouri, by whom acquired at the above sale, until at least 1959.

Acquired circa 1960, and thence by descent to the present owners.



Literature

The artist’s handlist (titled ‘Frau aus Turkestan‘).

W.A. Luz, ‘A. von Jawlensky/Neue Bildnisse’ in Der Cicerone, vol. XXII, Leipzig, 1921 (illustrated p. 686).

C. Weiler, Alexej Jawlensky, Cologne, 1959, no. 110, p. 234 (illustrated; with incorrect dimensions).

M. Jawlensky, L. Pieroni-Jawlensky & A. Jawlensky, Alexej von Jawlensky, Catalogue Raisonné of the Oil Paintings, vol. I, 1890-1914, London, 1991, no. 461, p. 359 (illustrated p. 348; reverse illustrated p. 35).



Exhibited

Hamburg, Galerie Commeter, Jawlensky, 1920, no. 14 (illustrated p. 7); this exhibition later travelled to Munich, Galerie Hans Goltz, 1920; Hanover, Kestner-Gesellschaft, September – October 1920; Frankfurt, Kunsthandlung Schames, December 1920; Wiesbaden, Neues Museum, January 1921; Barmen, Kunstverein, Ruhmeshalle, 1921; and Mannheim, Kunsthalle, 1921.

Dresden, Galerie Emil Richter, Alexej von Jawlensky, November 1922.

Chemnitz, Kunsthütte zu Chemnitz, Alexej von Jawlensky, 1923.

Stuttgart, Kunstsalon Schaller, Alexej von Jawlensky, 1923.

Frankfurt, Galerie Schames, Alexej von Jawlensky, 1924.

Los Angeles, Los Angeles Museum, The Blue Four: Feininger, Jawlensky, Kandinsky, Paul Klee, October 1933, no. 41.

New York, Buchholz Galleries, The Blue Four: Feininger, Jawlensky, Kandinsky, Paul Klee, October – November 1944, no. 20.

Lausanne, Palais de Beaulieu, Chefs d’œuvre des collections suisses, May – October 1964.

New York, The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, Gauguin and the Decorative Style, June – September 1966.

Locarno, Pinacoteca Comunale, Casa Rusca, Alexej von Jawlensky, September - November 1989, no. 44 (illustrated p. 78).

Nagoya, Aichi Prefectural Museum of Art, Fauvism and Modern Japanese Painting, December 1992, no. 71; this exhibition later travelled to Kyoto, The National Museum of Modern Art, January – February 1993; and Tokyo, The National Museum of Modern Art, February – March 1993.

Geneva, Musée Rath, Alexej von Jawlensky, March - May 1995, no. 68, pp. 114 & 256 (illustrated p. 112).

Toronto, Art Gallery of Ontario, on long term loan from circa 1982 until circa 1990.

London, Tate Gallery, New Displays, 1996.
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