After 1920, Jawlensky confined himself almost exclusively to frontal views of faces. He further simplified his forms until the essential elements of the face alone dominated the picture. He did not aim at pure abstraction, as did Kandinsky, but rather his view was always based on nature. Even after his simplification and stylization of the facial form, the image of the face was always recognizable.
Details
- Artist Name: Alexei Jawlensky (Russian, 1864-1941)
- Title: Savior's Face: Starlight
- Date: 1921
- Medium: Oil and pencil on wove paper mounted on board
- Dimensions: 13-7/8 x 10-1/2 in. (35.2 x 26.7 cm)
- Credit Line: Norton Simon Museum, The Blue Four Galka Scheyer Collection
- Accession Number: P.1953.156
- Copyright: © Norton Simon Museum
Object Information
Galka Scheyer;
Pasadena Art Institute, Pasadena, 1953-1954;
Pasadena Art Museum, Pasadena,1954-1975;
Norton Simon Museum, 1975.
Blue Four exhibition
- Palo Alto, Stanford University, 1925-10 to 1925-10
- Munich, Neue Secession, to
Jawlensky exhibition
- Galerie Emil Richter, 1922-11-07 to
The Blue Four: Feininger, Jawlensky, Kandinsky, Paul Klee
- Oakland Art Gallery, 1926-05-02 to 1926-06-15
Olgemalde von Alexey von Jawlensky
- Weimar, Landesmuseum, 1922-04-30 to 1922-06-01
Degenerate Art: The Attack on Modern Art in Nazi Germany, 1937
- Neue Galerie New York, 2014-03-13 to 2014-06-30
The Blue Four: Feininger, Jawlensky, Kandinsky, Paul Klee
- New York, Buchholz Gallery, 1944-10-31 to 1944-11-25
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
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
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
The Blue Four: Feininger, Jawlensky, Kandinsky, Paul Klee
- Braxton Gallery, 1930-03-16 to 1930-03-31
The Blue Four: Feininger, Jawlensky, Kandinsky, Paul Klee
- Oakland Art Gallery, 1931-08 to 1931-09-14
Blue Four exhibition
- San Diego, San Diego Fine Arts Gallery, 1927-01 to 1927-02
- San Diego, San Diego Fine Arts Gallery, to
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
Blue Four exhibition
- Henry Art Gallery, 1927-10 to 1927-10
The Blue Four: Feininger, Jawlensky, Kandinsky, Paul Klee
- California Palace of the Legion of Honor, 1931-04-23 to 1931-05-08
Selections from the Galka E. Scheyer Blue Four Collection
- Pasadena Museum of Modern Art, 1973-10-02 to 1973-11-18
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
The Blue Four
Die Blaue Vier: Feininger, Jawlensky, Kandinsky, Klee in der Neuen Welt
- Kunstmuseum Bern, 1997-12-05 to 1998-03-01
- Dusseldorf, Kunstsammlung Nordhein-Westfalen, 1998-03-28 to 1998-06-28
Alexei Jawlensky (1864-1941)
- Norton Simon Museum, 2007-05-04 to 2007-11-05
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 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. 155 pp. 56, 72
- Jawlensky, 1990, p. 24
- Jawlensky, Maria, Lucia Pieroni-Jawlensky, and Angelica Jawlensky, Alexej von Jawlensky: Catalogue Raisonné of the Oil Paintings, 1914-1933, 1992, no. 1152
- Weiler, Clemens, Alexej von Jawlensky, 1995, no. 274
- The Blue Four. Feininger, Jawlensky, Kandinsky, and Klee in the New World, 1997, no. 55 pp. 164, 343
- Barnett, Vivian Endicott, The Blue Four Collection at the Norton Simon Museum, 2002, no. 189 pp. 168-170
- Gilbert Holzgang, Galka Scheyer : Ein Leben für Kunst und Kreativität, 2023, p. 249 (ill.)
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