It was the human face that for Jawlensky revealed the distant imprint of a divine power. The diversity of the heads, created within the seemingly limited confines of a single construct, is a testament to the richness of Jawlensky's imagination.
Details
- Artist Name: Alexei Jawlensky (Russian, 1864-1941)
- Title: Savior's Face: Winter
- Date: 1921
- Medium: Oil and pencil on wove paper mounted on cardboard
- Dimensions: 14 x 10-3/8 in. (35.6 x 26.4 cm)
- Credit Line: Norton Simon Museum, The Blue Four Galka Scheyer Collection
- Accession Number: P.1953.154
- Copyright: © Norton Simon Museum
Object Information
Galka Scheyer;
Pasadena Art Institute, Pasadena, 1953-1954;
Pasadena Art Museum, Pasadena,1954-1975;
Norton Simon Museum, 1975.
Paintings by Wassily Kandinsky: A Survey 1923 to Present
- San Francisco Museum of Art, 1939-07-06 to 1939-07-23
Jawlensky exhibition
- Seattle, Cornish School, 1939-03 to 1939-03
Jawlensky and the Serial Image
- Irvine, University of California, University Art Gallery, 1966-03-11 to 1966-03-31
- Riverside, University of California, Art Gallery, 1966-04-04 to 1966-04-30
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
Klee, Kandinsky, Jawlensky: Works from the Bauhaus Period
- School of Art Gallery, The Ohio State University, 1966-11-11 to 1966-11-30
The Blue Four: Feininger, Jawlensky, Kandinsky, Paul Klee
- Los Angeles, Los Angeles Museum, 1933-10-04 to 1933-10-30
Selections from the Galka E. Scheyer Blue Four Collection
- Pasadena Museum of Modern Art, 1973-10-02 to 1973-11-18
Jawlensky: Meine liebe Galka!
- Wiesbaden, Museum Wiesbaden, 2004-10-23 to 2005-03-13
The Blue Four and Their Contemporaries
- Norton Simon Museum, 1991-06-20 to 1992-05-24
My Four Kings: Galka Scheyer and the Blue Four
- Norton Simon Museum, 2002-12-13 to 2003-04-14
Visions and Icons: the Art of Alexei Jawlensky
- Norton Simon Museum, 1990-01-18 to 1991-04-14
Permanent and Loan Collection, 1973
- Pasadena Museum of Modern Art, 1973-01-30 to 1973-12-31
The Blue Four-Galka Scheyer Collection From The Norton Simon Museum
- Henry Art Gallery, 1997-07-17 to 1997-10-05
The Spirit of Modernism: Galka Scheyer in the New World
- Norton Simon Museum, 1994-11-17 to 1996-01-14
- The Blue Four Galka Scheyer Collection, Norton Simon Museum of Art at Pasadena, 1976, no. 154 pp. 55-56. 72
- Jawlensky, 1990, p. 25
- Jawlensky, Maria, Lucia Pieroni-Jawlensky, and Angelica Jawlensky, Alexej von Jawlensky: Catalogue Raisonné of the Oil Paintings, 1914-1933, 1992, no. 1141
- Weiler, Clemens, Alexej von Jawlensky, 1995, no. 276
- Barnett, Vivian Endicott, The Blue Four Collection at the Norton Simon Museum, 2002, no. 186 pp. 166-167
- Museum Wiesbaden, Jawlensky: Meine liebe Galka!, 2004, pp. 156, 158
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