ALEXEJ VON JAWLENSKY (1864-1941)

Lot 462
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ID 1334655
Lot 462 | ALEXEJ VON JAWLENSKY (1864-1941)
Estimate value
$ 750 000 – 1 250 000
ALEXEJ VON JAWLENSKY (1864-1941)
Mystischer Kopf: Blauer Mund
signed 'A. Jawlensky' (lower left) and signed again and dated 'A. Jawlensky 17' (upper left); dated again, titled and numbered 'N. 19. 1917. Blauer Mund, M.K.' (on the reverse)
oil on board
14 ¼ x 11 ¾ in. (36 x 30 cm.)
Painted in 1917




Provenance

Estate of the artist.
Moderne Galerie Otto Stangl, Munich (1956).
Frank Perls Gallery, Beverly Hills.
Billy and Audrey Wilder, Beverly Hills (acquired from the above, June 1957); sale, Christie's, New York, 13 November 1989, lot 25.
Acquired at the above sale by the present owner.



Literature

C. Weiler, Alexej Jawlensky, Cologne, 1959, p. 242, no. 213 (illustrated).
C. Weiler and H.P. Verlag, Alexej Jawlensky: Köpfe, Gesichte, Meditationen, Hanau, 1970, p. 143, no. 174.
M.N. Carter, "Great Private Collections: The Obsessions of Billy Wilder" in The Saturday Review, December 1980, p. 61 (illustrated in color in situ in the Wilders' home).
P. Vilades, "A Life in Pictures" in House & Garden, April 1989, vol. 161, no. 4, p. 154 (illustrated in color in situ in the Wilders' home).
M. Jawlensky, L. Pieroni-Jawlensky and A. Jawlensky, eds., Alexej von Jawlensky: Catalogue Raisonné of the Oil Paintings, 1914-1933, London, 1992, vol. II, p. 195, no. 877 (illustrated).



Exhibited

Munich, Moderne Galerie Otto Stangl, Jawlensky, September-October 1956 (illustrated).
Santa Barbara, The Art Gallery, University of California, A Selections of Paintings, Drawings, Collages and Sculptures from the Collection of Mr. and Mrs. Billy Wilder, October-November 1966, p. 11, no. 21 (illustrated in situ in the Wilders' home, p. 6).
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