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| Variation: Summer Blessing, 1916 Alexei Jawlensky Russian, 1864-1941 Oil on textured wove paper mounted on cardboard 14-1/4 x 10-3/4 in. (36.2 x 27.3 cm) Norton Simon Museum, The Blue Four Galka Scheyer Collection P.1953.139 © 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 Shortly after the outbreak of World War I, Jawlensky fled to Switzerland, settling in St. Prex on Lake Geneva. After his move, he abandoned portraiture and worked on a series of landscapes in a smaller, vertical format. He said of these works, "I painted a great many pictures which I called ¿Variations on a Landscape Theme.' They are songs without words." View Provenance |
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