ALEXEJ VON JAWLENSKY (1864-1941) - photo 1

ALEXEJ VON JAWLENSKY (1864-1941)

Lot 439
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Lot 439 | ALEXEJ VON JAWLENSKY (1864-1941)
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£ 150 000 – 250 000
ALEXEJ VON JAWLENSKY (1864-1941)

Stilleben mit Tasse

oil on board

15 x 19 in. (38 x 48.3 cm.)

Painted circa 1908







Provenance

Lisa Kümmel, Wiesbaden, by whom acquired directly from the artist, and thence by descent to Karl Kümmel in 1944.

Frankfurter Kunstkabinett [Hanna Bekker vom Rath] Frankfurt, by 1953.

Redfern Gallery, London, by 1956.

Lawrence Jacobs, London, by whom acquired from the above on 4 April 1956.

Marlborough Fine Arts, London.

Anonymous sale, Sotheby's, London, 15 April 1970, lot 87.

Galerie Alfred Gunzenhauser, Munich.

Acquired from the above by the present owner in December 1982.





Literature

C. Weiler, Alexej Jawlensky, Cologne, 1959, no. 705, p. 277 (illustrated; titled 'Mit Tasse' and dated '1904').

M. Jawlensky, L. Pieroni-Jawlensky & A. Jawlensky, Alexej von Jawlensky, Catalogue Raisonné of the Oil Paintings, vol. I, 1890-1914, London, 1991, no. 233, p. 192 (illustrated).

A. Hoberg, R. Zieglgänsberger & M. Mühling, eds., Soulmates, Alexej von Jawlensky and Marianne von Werefkin, Bonn, 2019, no. 71, p. 139 (illustrated; titled 'Still Life with Red Cup').





Exhibited

Lucerne, Kunstmuseum, Deutsche Kunst. Meisterwerke des 20.Jahrhunderts, July - October 1953, no. 147, p. 43 (titled 'Früchtestilleben mit Tasse').

Frankfurt, Kunstkabinett, Alexej von Jawlensky, Ölgemälde, April - May 1954, no. 8 (dated '1906-1907'); this exhibition later travelled to Munich, Kunstkabinett Klihm, June 1954.

London, Redfern Gallery, Alexej von Jawlensky, May - June 1956, no. 19, p. 8 (dated '1906').

London, Redfern Gallery, Jawlensky, October 1960, no. 36 (dated '1904').

Munich, Galerie Alfred Gunzenhauser, Jawlensky, December 1971, no. 2 (illustrated).

Wasserburg, Ganserhaus, Alexej Jawlensky, Vom Abbild zum Urbild, September - October 1979, no. 17, p. 52 (illustrated; dated 'circa 1906/07').

Munich, Galerie Gunzenhauser, Aus den Beständen der Galerie, 1982, p. 40 (illustrated).

Munich, Städtische Galerie im Lenbachhaus, February - April 1983, no. 70, p. 180 (illustrated; dated 'circa 1910'); this exhibition later travelled to Baden-Baden, Staatliche Kunsthalle, May - June 1983.

Emden, Kunsthalle, Alexej Jawlensky, December 1989 - February 1990, p. 6 (illustrated; dated '1904').

Arles, Espace van Gogh, Alexej on Jawlensky, April - June 1993, no. 8, p. 43 (illustrated).

Munich, Lenbachhaus, Der Blaue Reiter und das neue Bild, October 1999, no. 233 (illustrated pl. 159).

Turin, Palazzo Cavour, Arte in Due. Coppie di artisti in Europa 1900-1945, 2003, no. 16, p. 53 (illustrated).

Ludwigshafen, Wilhelm-Hack-Museum, Der Blaue Reiter, November 2003 - February 2004, no. 129, p. 156 (illustrated).

Murnau, Schlossmuseum, 1908/2008 - Vor 100 Jahren. Kandinsky, Münter, Jawlensky, Werefkin in Murnau, July - November 2008, no. 34, p. 109 (illustrated).

Munich, Lenbachhaus, Lebensmenschen, Alexej von Jawlensky und Marianne von Werefkin, October 2019 - February 2020, no. 71, p. 139 (illustrated; dated 'circa 1908'). This exhibition later travelled to Wiesbaden, Museum Wiesbaden, March - August 2020.





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Applied technique:Oil, Painted
Art style:Expressionism
Genre:Still life
Place of origin:Western Europe, Germany, Europe
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