Oil on paper with canvas structure 35,3 x 26/26,2 cm; on reverse horizontal Floral Piece ca. 1915/1916, 35.3 x 25.8 cm, framed under glass. Signed and (difficult to decipher) dated A. Jawlensky 1916 lower left in blueish green. - With two lighter rectangular areas in the upper right quadrant (also reproduced in cat. rais.) as well as a few minor marginal defects. The reverse with four smaller losses of colour, slightly shining through to the front.
M. Jawlensky/ Pieroni-Jawlensky/ A. Jawlensky 785
Provenance
Galka Scheyer, Los Angeles, Hollywood/California (1924); Compulsory Auction, Los Angeles 1954, lot 8, nr. 63; Paul Kanter Gallery, Los Angeles; Sotheby's London, 19 June 1963, lot 52; Lea Jaray, London; Helmut Gernsheim, Castagnola/Switzerland (1964); Christie's London, 12 December 1969, lot 46; W. Ketterer, Munich 1970, cat. 3, lot 623; Sotheby's London, 13 April 1972, lot 59; Kunsthaus Lempertz, Cologne December 1974, cat. 542, lot 348; private possession, Rhineland
Literature
On an undated list of paintings that Galka Scheyer took to the USA, probably from 1924; under nr. 15 on a list of paintings meant to be sent to Galka Scheyer, dated March 1933; Clemens Weiler, Alexej Jawlensky. Köpfe, Gesichte, Meditationen, Hanau 1970, nr. 1209
Exhibitions
Hollywood 1930 (Braxton Gallery), cat. nr. 18; Oakland/California 1931 (Art Gallery), The Blue Four, cat. nr. 40; San Francisco 1931 (California Palace of the Legion of Honor), The Blue Four. Jawlensky and Paul Klee, cat. nr. 10; Santa Barbara/Kalifornien 1932 (Faulkner Memorial Art Gallery), The Blue Four; San Francisco 1937 (Museum of Art), The Blue Four, without cat.; Munich/Baden-Baden 1983 (Städtische Galerie im Lenbachhaus/Staatliche Kunsthalle) Alexej von Jawlensky, cat. nr. 129, p. 232.