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| Variation: Arc of Mourning, c.1916 Alexei Jawlensky Russian, 1864-1941 Oil and pencil on wove paper 12-7/8 x 9-7/8 in. (32.7 x 25.1 cm) Norton Simon Museum, The Blue Four Galka Scheyer Collection P.1953.109 © 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 Jawlensky's Variations are colored, almost abstract meditations upon a few unchanging forms distilled from tree shapes. They clearly foreshadow the icon-like quality of his later work, with its eternal repetition of meditative signs. In a letter he wrote to Galka Scheyer in 1919, Jawlensky said, "Klee did not approve of. . .my pictures. . . .he said they are too intellectual, too thought out. I think all of that is wrong." View Provenance |
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