Although titled Orient by Scheyer on the painting’s reverse, this work was painted in the Mediterranean town of Bordighera.
Details
- Artist Name: Alexei Jawlensky (Russian, 1864-1941)
- Title: Orient
- Date: 1914
- Medium: Oil and pencil on cardboard
- Dimensions: 21 x 19-3/8 in. (53.3 x 49.2 cm)
- Credit Line: Norton Simon Museum, The Blue Four Galka Scheyer Collection
- Accession Number: P.1953.157
- Copyright: © Norton Simon Museum
Object Information
Galka Scheyer, by the 1930s;
Pasadena Art Institute, Pasadena, 1953-1954;
Pasadena Art Museum, Pasadena,1954-1975;
Norton Simon Museum, 1975.
Genoa-St. Petersburg. Kandinsky Vrubel' Jawlensky and Russian Artists in Liguria
- Genova, Italy, Palazzo Ducale, 2001-10-27 to 2002-03-03
Homage to Jawlensky
- New York, Nierendorf Gallery, 1939-11-15 to
My Four Kings: Galka Scheyer and the Blue Four
- Norton Simon Museum, 2002-12-13 to 2003-04-14
Alexei Jawlensky
- Norton Simon Museum, 1987-08-06 to 1987-12-13
Feininger, Jawlensky, Kandinsky, Paul Klee. The Blue Four Galka E. Scheyer Collection
- Pasadena, Pasadena Art Museum, 1955-05-27 to 1955-08-30
Visions and Icons: the Art of Alexei Jawlensky
- Norton Simon Museum, 1990-01-18 to 1991-04-14
Die Blaue Vier: Feininger, Jawlensky, Kandinsky, Klee in der Neuen Welt
- Kunstmuseum Bern, 1997-12-05 to 1998-03-01
- Dusseldorf, Kunstsammlung Nordhein-Westfalen, 1998-03-28 to 1998-06-28
The Blue Four and Their Contemporaries
- Norton Simon Museum, 1991-06-20 to 1992-05-24
The Blue Four
The Spirit of Modernism: Galka Scheyer in the New World
- Norton Simon Museum, 1994-11-17 to 1996-01-14
The Galka Scheyer Collection: Klee, Nolde, Jawlensky, Moholy-Nagy, Schmidt-Rottluff, Schwitters, Archipenko, Kandinsky, Lissitzky, Feininger, Kirchner, Dix_1
- La Jolla, Art Center in La Jolla, 1960-07-05 to 1960-08-14
Alexei Jawlensky (1864-1941)
- Norton Simon Museum, 2007-05-04 to 2007-11-05
Bauhaus Painters; Spirit of Modernism: Wassily Kandinsky, Paul Klee, Lyonel Feininger, Laszlo Moholy-Nagy, El Lissitzky, Oskar Schlemmer, Alexander Archipenko, Alexei Jawlensky and Others
- Seoul, Ho-Am Art Museum, 1996-02-08 to 1996-04-28
- The Blue Four Galka Scheyer Collection, Norton Simon Museum of Art at Pasadena, 1976, no. 113 pp. 45, 49
- Jawlensky, 1990, p. 13
- Jawlensky, Maria; Lucia Pieroni-Jawlensky, and Angelica Jawlensky, Alexej von Jawlensky: Catalogue Raisonné of the Oil Paintings, 1890-1914, 1991, no. 629
- Weiler, Clemens, Alexej von Jawlensky, 1995, no. 574
- The Blue Four. Feininger, Jawlensky, Kandinsky, and Klee in the New World, 1997, no. 33 pp. 140, 340
- Kandinsky, Vrubel´, Jawlensky: e gli artisti russi a Genova e nelle riviere: passaggio in Liguria / a, 2001, cat. 202, 202a pp. 65, 287, 288
- Barnett, Vivian Endicott, The Blue Four Collection at the Norton Simon Museum, 2002, no. 130 pp. 110-111
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