As Jawlensky explored the human face during the 1920s, he reduced it to simple geometrical patterns. He further confined the space so that the boundaries did not move beyond the eyebrows, chin, and ears. His form for these "Constructivist Heads" was based on geometric planes disposed around the vertical axis of the nose, the horizontal of the eyes, and the complimentary arches of the eyebrows and chin.
Details
- Artist Name: Alexei Jawlensky (Russian, 1864-1941)
- Title: Abstract Head: Winter Ringing
- Date: 1927
- Medium: Oil and pencil on textured cardboard
- Dimensions: 16-3/4 x 12-3/4 in. (42.5 x 32.4 cm)
- Credit Line: Norton Simon Museum, The Blue Four Galka Scheyer Collection
- Accession Number: P.1953.105
- Copyright: © Norton Simon Museum
Object Information
Galka Scheyer, 1928 and purchased from the artist 20 March 1931;
Pasadena Art Institute, Pasadena, 1953-1954;
Pasadena Art Museum, Pasadena,1954-1975;
Norton Simon Museum, 1975.
Paul Klee - Alexej v. Jawlensky
- Galerie Neue Kunst Fides, 1928-01 to 1928-01
Exhibition of 51 Paintings by Alexei von Jawlensky
- New York, Sidney Janis Gallery, 1957-03-04 to 1957-03-30
The Blue Four: Feininger, Jawlensky, Kandinsky, Paul Klee
- Santa Barbara, Faulkner Memorial Art Gallery, 1932-03-03 to 1932-03-13
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
- Arts Club of Chicago, 1932-04-01 to 1932-04-15
- University of Chicago. Renaissance Society, 1932-04-16 to 1932-04-19
The Blue Four: Feininger, Jawlensky, Kandinsky, Paul Klee
- California Palace of the Legion of Honor, 1931-04-23 to 1931-05-08
Maven of Modernism: Galka Scheyer in California
- Norton Simon Museum, 2017-04-07 to 2017-09-25
Klee, Kandinsky, Jawlensky: Works from the Bauhaus Period
- School of Art Gallery, The Ohio State University, 1966-11-11 to 1966-11-30
My Four Kings: Galka Scheyer and the Blue Four
- Norton Simon Museum, 2002-12-13 to 2003-04-14
The Blue Four and Their Contemporaries
- Norton Simon Museum, 1991-06-20 to 1992-05-24
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
Visions and Icons: the Art of Alexei Jawlensky
- Norton Simon Museum, 1990-01-18 to 1991-04-14
Alexei Jawlensky (1864-1941)
- Norton Simon Museum, 2007-05-04 to 2007-11-05
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. 160 pp. 56, 75
- Jawlensky, 1990, p. 26
- Jawlensky, Maria, Lucia Pieroni-Jawlensky, and Angelica Jawlensky, Alexej von Jawlensky: Catalogue Raisonné of the Oil Paintings, 1914-1933, 1992, no. 1266
- Weiler, Clemens, Alexej von Jawlensky, 1995, no. 327
- Barnett, Vivian Endicott, The Blue Four Collection at the Norton Simon Museum, 2002, no. 221 pp. 190-191
- Wünsche, Isabel, Galka E. Scheyer and the Blue Four: Correspondence 1924 - 1945, 2005, Plate IX p. 336
- Gilbert Holzgang, Galka Scheyer : Ein Leben für Kunst und Kreativität, 2023, p. 199 (ill.)
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