Jawlensky's Variations are colored, almost abstract meditations upon a few unchanging forms distilled from tree shapes. They clearly foreshadow the icon-like quality of his later work, with its eternal repetition of meditative signs. In a letter he wrote to Galka Scheyer in 1919, Jawlensky said, "Klee did not approve of. . .my pictures. . . .he said they are too intellectual, too thought out. I think all of that is wrong."
Details
- Artist Name: Alexei Jawlensky (Russian, 1864-1941)
- Title: Variation: Mountain and Lake
- Date: c. 1915
- Medium: Oil and pencil on textured wove paper
- Dimensions: 15 x 10-3/8 in. (38.1 x 26.4 cm)
- Credit Line: Norton Simon Museum, The Blue Four Galka Scheyer Collection
- Accession Number: P.1953.075
- Copyright: © Norton Simon Museum
Object Information
Galka Scheyer, by the 1930s, sent August, 1931 to;
Marjorie Eaton, returned to Scheyer December 1931;
Pasadena Art Institute, Pasadena, 1953-1954;
Pasadena Art Museum, Pasadena,1954-1975;
Norton Simon Museum, 1975.
Alexei Jawlensky (1864-1941)
- Norton Simon Museum, 2007-05-04 to 2007-11-05
Jawlensky: Meine liebe Galka!
- Wiesbaden, Museum Wiesbaden, 2004-10-23 to 2005-03-13
The Blue Four: Feininger, Jawlensky, Kandinsky, Paul Klee
- Santa Barbara, Faulkner Memorial Art Gallery, 1932-03-03 to 1932-03-13
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 Galka Scheyer Collection: Klee, Nolde, Jawlensky, Moholy-Nagy, Schmidt-Rottluff, Schwitters, Archipenko, Kandinsky, Lissitzky, Feininger, Kirchner, Dix_1
- La Jolla, Art Center in La Jolla, 1960-07-05 to 1960-08-14
Feininger, Jawlensky, Kandinsky, Paul Klee. The Blue Four Galka E. Scheyer Collection
- Pasadena, Pasadena Art Museum, 1955-05-27 to 1955-08-30
Permanent and Loan Collection, 1973
- Pasadena Museum of Modern Art, 1973-01-30 to 1973-12-31
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. 117 pp. 48-49
- Jawlensky, Maria, Lucia Pieroni-Jawlensky, and Angelica Jawlensky, Alexej von Jawlensky: Catalogue Raisonné of the Oil Paintings, 1914-1933, 1992, no. 710
- Barnett, Vivian Endicott, The Blue Four Collection at the Norton Simon Museum, 2002, no. 136 p. 119
- Museum Wiesbaden, Jawlensky: Meine liebe Galka!, 2004, pp. 118-119
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