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| Abstract Head: Life and Death, 1923 Alexei Jawlensky Russian, 1864-1941 Oil and pencil on cardboard 16-3/4 x 12-7/8 in. (42.5 x 32.7 cm) Norton Simon Museum, The Blue Four Galka Scheyer Collection P.1953.078 © 2011 Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York / VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn Reproduction, including downloading of ARS works is prohibited by copyright laws and international conventions without the express written permission of Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York Not on view Many writers have noted Jawlensky's progressively religious concentration upon the human face during the last twenty years of his life. He expressed this spiritualized conception of humanity in a letter written in June 1938: "I knew that great art should only be painted with religious feeling. And that was something I could bring only to the human face. I realized that the artist must express...that within him which is divine. That is why the work of art is a visible God, and why art is 'a longing for God.'" View Provenance |
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