Girl with the Green Face

1910

Alexei Jawlensky
German, born Russia, 1864–1941

Artist: Alexei Jawlensky
Title: Girl with the Green Face
Origin: Germany
Date: 1910
Medium: Oil on composition board
Inscriptions: Signed, u.l.: "a. jawlensky"
Dimensions: 20 15/16 × 19 9/16 in. (53.1 × 49.7 cm)
Credit Line: Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Earle Ludgin in memory of John V. McCarthy
Reference Number: 1953.336
Copyright: © 2018 Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York / VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn

Clemens Weiler, Alexej Jawlensky (Cologne, 1959), p. 230, fig. 60.
A. James Speyer and Courtney Graham Donnell, Twentieth-Century European Paintings (Chicago, 1980), p. 46-7, pl. 2B8.
Anne Mochon, Alexej Jawlensky: From Appearance to Essence (Long Beach, Calif., 1991), p. 22, fig. 10.
Maria Jawlensky, Lucia Pieroni-Jawlensky, and Angelica Jawlensky, Alexej von Jawlensky: Catalogue Raisonné of the Oil Paintings (London, 1991), vol. 1, pp. 266, 279, fig. 328.
M. Therese Southgate, “Girl with the Green Face,” Journal of the American Medical Association 285, no. 10 (2001), p. 1261.
Vivian Edicott Barnett, Alexei Jawlensky, exh. cat. (Prestel, 2017), pp. 20; 114, cat. 18 (color ill.); 171.
Peter Schjeldahl, “The Beautiful and the Unexpected,” New Yorker, Feb. 27, 2017 (ill.), https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2017/02/27/the-beautiful-and-the-unexpected.

University of Chicago, May 11-24, 1954.
Pasadena, Calif., Art Museum, Jawlensky Centennial, April 12–May 19, 1964, no. 19; traveled to Waltham, Mass., Brandeis University, Rose Art Museum, November 9-December 13, 1964.
Art Institue of Chicago, Mary and Earle Ludgin Collection, Sept. 11–Oct. 31, 1982.
Neue Galerie New York, Alexei Jawlensky, Feb. 16–May 29, 2017, cat. 18.

Mr. and Mrs. Earle Ludgin, Chicago, by 1953; given to the Art Institute, 1953.

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