Mystical Head: Andrej

Modern Art

1917

Alexei Jawlensky
Born Torzhok (formerly Russian Empire, now Russia), 1864; died Wiesbaden, Germany, 1941

Status: Currently Off View
Department: Modern Art

Artist: Alexei Jawlensky
Title: Mystical Head: Andrej
Place: Germany (Artist's nationality:)
Date Dates are not always precisely known, but the Art Institute strives to present this information as consistently and legibly as possible. Dates may be represented as a range that spans decades, centuries, dynasties, or periods and may include qualifiers such as c. (circa) or BCE.: 1917
Medium: Oil on paper, mounted on board
Inscriptions: none
Dimensions: 43.5 × 35 cm (17 1/8 × 13 3/4 in.)
Credit Line: Bequest of Maxine Kunstadter
Reference Number: 1978.401
Copyright: © 2018 Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York / VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn

Maria Jawlensky, Lucia Pieroni-Jawlensky, and Angelica Jawlensky, Alexej von Jawlensky: Catalogue Raisonné of the Oil Paintings, Volume Two: 1890–1914 (London, 1992), p. 188 (ill.), fig. 861, as Mystischer Kopf: Andrej, Mystical head: Andrej.
Clemens Weiler, Köpfe, Gesichte, Meditationen (Hanau, 1970), p. 143, no. 187.
A. James Speyer and Courtney Graham Donnell, Twentieth-Century European Paintings (Chicago, 1980), p. 47, pl. 2B9, as Mittlere Kopfe Nr. 1 (Andrej).

Munich, Städtischen Galerie im Lenbachhaus, Centennial Exhibition, July–September 1964, no. 94.

By descent to the artist’s wife, Helene von Jawlensky, 1941–65 [letter April 8, 2002 from Angelica Jawlensky Bianconi in curatorial file]; by descent to her son, Andreas von Jawlensky, 1965–January 8, 1968 [according to letter mentioned above]; sold by him to Leonard Hutton Galleries, New York, January 8, 1968 [letter mentioned above]; sold by the gallery to Serge Sabarsky Gallery, New York, October 29, 1968 [receipt October 29, 1969 in curatorial file]. Maxine Kunstadter by 1978; bequested by her to the Art Institute, 1978.

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