ALEXEJ VON JAWLENSKY (1864-1941)

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Lot 482 | ALEXEJ VON JAWLENSKY (1864-1941)
ALEXEJ VON JAWLENSKY (1864-1941)

Heilandsgesicht: Märtyrer

signed with initials and dated 'A.J. 19.' (lower left)

oil on linen-finished paper laid down on cardboard

13 x 10 in. (32.9 x 25.3 cm.)

Painted in 1919





Provenance

Hermann Kesser, Zurich, to whom gifted by the artist.

Private collection, Germany.

Private collection, Germany; sale, Sotheby's, Berlin, 30 May 1991, lot 18.

Private collection, Rhineland, by whom acquired at the above sale; sale, Sotheby's, London, 8 February 2012, lot 38.

Acquired at the above sale by the present owners.



Literature

M. Jawlensky, L. Pieroni-Jawlensky & A. Jawlensky, Alexej von Jawlensky, Catalogue Raisonné of the Oil Paintings, vol. II, 1914-1933, London, 1992, no. 1078, p. 305 (illustrated p. 282).



Exhibited

Venice, Padiglione della Russia, XII Esposizione Internazionale d'Arte della Città di Venezia, 1920, no. 28.

Dresden, Galerie Emil Richter, Alexej Jawlensky, 1922.

Chemnitz, Kunsthütte, Alexej Jawlensky, 1923, no. 233 (titled 'Der Martyr' and dated '1921').

Dresden, Neue Kunst Fides, Alexej Jawlensky, 1923.

Frankfurt, Galerie Schames, Gruppenausstellung, 1923.



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