Head with Open Eyes
1922-1924
Alexei Jawlensky (Russian, 1864-1941)
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Details

  • Artist Name: Alexei Jawlensky (Russian, 1864-1941)
  • Title: Head with Open Eyes
  • Date: 1922-1924
  • Medium: Watercolor, gouache and India ink on wove paper, mounted on cardboard
  • Dimensions: 8-5/8 x 6-5/8 in. (21.9 x 16.8 cm)
  • Credit Line: Norton Simon Museum, The Blue Four Galka Scheyer Collection
  • Accession Number: P.1953.120
  • Copyright: © Norton Simon Museum

Object Information

The artist, to;
Galka Scheyer, probably by 1924;
Pasadena Art Institute, Pasadena, 1953-1954;
Pasadena Art Museum, Pasadena,1954-1975;
Norton Simon Museum, 1975.

Visions and Icons: the Art of Alexei Jawlensky

  • Norton Simon Museum, 1990-01-18 to 1991-04-14

The Blue Four: Feininger, Jawlensky, Kandinsky, Paul Klee

  • Santa Barbara, Faulkner Memorial Art Gallery, 1932-03-03 to 1932-03-13

The Blue Four: Feininger, Jawlensky, Kandinsky, Paul Klee

  • Arts Club of Chicago, 1932-04-01 to 1932-04-15
  • University of Chicago. Renaissance Society, 1932-04-16 to 1932-04-19

Prints and Drawings Form the Galka E. Scheyer Blue Four Collection

  • Pasadena, Pasadena Art Museum, 1972-02-15 to 1972-03-31

Painted Papers: Watercolors from Durer to the Present

  • Santa Barbara Museum of Art, 1962-03-15 to 1962-04-15

The Blue Four: Feininger, Jawlensky, Kandinsky, Paul Klee

  • Portland, Portland Art Association and the Museum of Art, 1927-04-08 to 1927-05-01
  • Spokane, Spokane Art Association, 1927-05-15 to 1927-05-31
  • San Francisco, California School of Fine Arts, 1927-03-01 to 1927-03-20

The Blue Four: Feininger, Jawlensky, Kandinsky, Paul Klee

  • Los Angeles, University of California, Los Angeles, Art Department, 1926-11 to 1926-12-28
  • Los Angeles, Los Angeles Museum, 1926-10 to

Selections from Feininger, Jawlensky, Kandinsky, Paul Klee. The Blue Four Galka E. Scheyer Collection

  • Seattle Art Museum, 1956-10-10 to 1956-11-04
  • Portland, Portland Art Museum, 1956-11-08 to 1956-11-30
  • , 1957-01-01 to 1957-01-31
  • Marion Koogler McNay Art Institute, 1957-03-02 to 1957-04-01
  • Kansas City, William Rockhill Nelson Gallery, 1957-11-15 to 1957-12-15
  • San Francisco Museum of Art, 1958-01-14 to 1958-02-23
  • Vancouver Art Gallery, 1956-07 to 1956-08-31

Klee, Kandinsky, Jawlensky: Works from the Bauhaus Period

  • School of Art Gallery, The Ohio State University, 1966-11-11 to 1966-11-30

Alexei Jawlensky (1864-1941)

  • Norton Simon Museum, 2007-05-04 to 2007-11-05

My Four Kings: Galka Scheyer and the Blue Four

  • Norton Simon Museum, 2002-12-13 to 2003-04-14
  • The Blue Four Galka Scheyer Collection, Norton Simon Museum of Art at Pasadena, 1976, no. 166 pp. 58, 71
  • Jawlensky, 1990, p. 23
  • Jawlensky, Maria, Lucia Pieroni-Jawlensky, and Angelica Jawlensky Bianconi, Alexej von Jawlensky: Catalogue Raisonné of the Watercolours and Drawings, 1998, no. 434
  • Barnett, Vivian Endicott, The Blue Four Collection at the Norton Simon Museum, 2002, no. 214 pp. 183-184

Additional Artwork by Artist

Abstract Head: Small Head on Wood Alexei Jawlensky 1921
Head Alexei Jawlensky 1912
Head Inclined to the Right, with Closed Eyes Alexei Jawlensky c. 1922

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