Jawlensky's heads from this period are enclosed in small, almost square formats. He often crowds or cuts off the tops of the heads, thereby making the faces even more pronounced and immediate.
Details
- Artist Name: Alexei Jawlensky (Russian, 1864-1941)
- Title: Blossoming Girl
- Date: c. 1911
- Medium: Oil on textured wove paper, mounted on canvas
- Dimensions: 21 x 19-1/4 in. (53.3 x 48.9 cm)
- Credit Line: Norton Simon Museum, The Blue Four Galka Scheyer Collection
- Accession Number: P.1953.085
- Copyright: © Norton Simon Museum
Object Information
Galka Scheyer, by the 1930s;
Pasadena Art Institute, Pasadena, 1953-1954;
Pasadena Art Museum, Pasadena,1954-1975;
Norton Simon Museum, 1975.
Alexej von Jawlensky
- Krems, Austria, Kunsthalle Krems, 2003-04-27 to 2003-09-21
Alexei Jawlensky: A Centennial Exhibition
- Pasadena Art Museum, 1964-04-14 to 1964-05-19
- Rose Art Museum, 1964-11-09 to 1964-12-13
- Winnipeg Art Gallery, 1965-01-04 to 1965-02-07
- University of California, Berkeley Art Museum, 1965-03-01 to 1965-03-31
- University of New Mexico, Art Museum, 1965-10-17 to 1965-11-23
- Isaac Delgado Museum of Art, 1965-12-07 to 1966-01-16
Works in Dialogue (a special series program)
- J. Paul Getty Museum, 2008-10-07 to 2009-05-18
Feininger, Jawlensky, Kandinsky, Paul Klee. The Blue Four Galka E. Scheyer Collection
- Pasadena, Pasadena Art Museum, 1955-05-27 to 1955-08-30
Visions and Icons: the Art of Alexei Jawlensky
- Norton Simon Museum, 1990-01-18 to 1991-04-14
The Blue Four and Their Contemporaries
- Norton Simon Museum, 1991-06-20 to 1992-05-24
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 From The Norton Simon Museum
- Henry Art Gallery, 1997-07-17 to 1997-10-05
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
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
- Schultze, Jürgen, Alexej Jawlensky 1864-1941, fig. 7 pp. 76-77
- The Blue Four Galka Scheyer Collection, Norton Simon Museum of Art at Pasadena, 1976, no. 107 pp. 45, 61
- Jawlensky, 1990, p. 5
- Jawlensky, Maria; Lucia Pieroni-Jawlensky, and Angelica Jawlensky, Alexej von Jawlensky: Catalogue Raisonné of the Oil Paintings, 1890-1914, 1991, no. 412
- Mochon, Anne, From Appearance to Essence, 1991, p. 24
- Weiler, Clemens, Alexej von Jawlensky, 1995, no. 26, pl. 11
- Barnett, Vivian Endicott, The Blue Four Collection at the Norton Simon Museum, 2002, no. 113 pp. 91-92
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