Large Meditation No. 27
1936
Alexei Jawlensky (Russian, 1864-1941)
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Details

  • Artist Name: Alexei Jawlensky (Russian, 1864-1941)
  • Title: Large Meditation No. 27
  • Date: 1936
  • Medium: Oil on canvas mounted on cardboard
  • Dimensions: 8-3/4 x 6-5/8 in. (22.2 x 16.8 cm)
  • Credit Line: Norton Simon Museum, The Blue Four Galka Scheyer Collection
  • Accession Number: P.1954.29.09
  • Copyright: © Norton Simon Museum

Object Information

The artist, May 1937 to;
Galka Scheyer;
Auction of Alien Property Custodian, Federal Office Building, San Francisco, 28 September, 1954, lot 1, no. 4;
purchased by;
Pasadena Art Museum, Pasadena,1954-1975;
Norton Simon Museum, 1975.

Paths to Abstraction: Pioneers of Early 20th Century Painting

  • Norton Simon Museum, 1989-01-19 to 1990-01-14

Jawlensky exhibition

  • Seattle, Cornish School, 1939-03 to 1939-03

My Four Kings: Galka Scheyer and the Blue Four

  • Norton Simon Museum, 2002-12-13 to 2003-04-14

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

Jawlensky: Meine liebe Galka!

  • Wiesbaden, Museum Wiesbaden, 2004-10-23 to 2005-03-13

Alexei Jawlensky (1864-1941)

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

Visions and Icons: the Art of Alexei Jawlensky

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

The Blue Four-Galka Scheyer Collection From The Norton Simon Museum

  • Henry Art Gallery, 1997-07-17 to 1997-10-05

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

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. 164d p. 57
  • Jawlensky, Maria, Lucia Pieroni-Jawlensky, and Angelica Jawlensky, Alexej von Jawlensky: Catalogue Raisonné of the Oil Paintings, 1934-1937, 1993, no. 1996
  • Barnett, Vivian Endicott, The Blue Four Collection at the Norton Simon Museum, 2002, no. 230 p. 199
  • Museum Wiesbaden, Jawlensky: Meine liebe Galka!, 2004, pp. 246-247

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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