Lot 273 | Alexej Jawlensky | Große Meditation

JAWLENSKY, ALEXEJ
1867 Twer/Moscow - 1941 Wiesbaden

Title: Große Meditation.
Date: 1937.
Technique: Oil on card.
Measurement: 25 x 16,5cm.
Notation: Inscribed by Lisa Kümmel, assistant of the artist verso: IV/37.
Frame/Pedestal: Craftman's frame.
Enclosed: Certificate

A photographic expertise by Maria Jawlensky, Alexey von Jawlensky Archive, Locarno, dated September 27, 1988, is available for this work. There is also a detailed letter from Maria Jawlensky concerning this painting dated the same date. According to the photographic expertise of Maria Jawlensky, the work also bears the number "21" verso. This is not visible under the current coverage of the frame.

Provenance:
- Artist's studio
- Lisa Kümmel, Wiesbaden
- Private collection Dusseldorf
- Galerie Aenne Abels, Cologne
- Private collection Munich
- Sotheby's Munich, Auction, 8.6.1988, Lot 78
- Galerie Neher, Essen
- Private collection North Rhine-Westphalia (acquired from the previous owner in 1990)
- Selbstständige Stiftung in der Betreuung des Deutschen Stiftungszentrums, Essen

Exhibitions:
- Galerie Neher, Essen, 1988/89
- Pinacoteca Comunale Casa Rusca, Locarno 1989
- Kunsthalle Emden, 1989/90

Literature:
- Jawlensky, Maria/Pieroni-Jawlensky, Lucia/Jawlensky, Angelica: Alexej von Jawlensky - Catalogue Raisonné of the Oil Paintings, Vol. Three, 1934-1937, Munich 1993, cat. rais. no. 2186
- Weiler, Clemens: Alexej Jawlensky, Cologne 1959, cat. rais. no. 443 (here falsely described as monogrammed and dated)
- Exhib.-cat. Blickpunkte Deutscher Kunst im 20. Jahrhundert, Galerie Neher, Essen 1988/89, p. 58f, ill.
- Exhib.-cat. Alexej Jawlensky, Pinacoteca Comunale Casa Rusca/ Kunsthalle Emden, Milan 1989, p. 253, cat.-no. 117, ill.

- Privately owned for 30 years
- The "Meditations" series marks the height of his search for intellectual depths and formal reduction
- The combination of iconic austerity and radiant color lends this late work a haunting expressiveness