ALEXEJ JAWLENSKY RUSSIAN: 1864-1941 HEILANDSGESICHT: ENTSAGUNG (Savior’s Face: Renunciation) 1921, N.20 Oil on linen-finish paper laid down on cardboard 12 3/4 x 9 7/8 inches 32.4 x 25.1 cm Signed with initials lower left: “A.J.” Signed and dated “1921” on reverse; also inscribed with title and technical data by the artist’s son. Note: Recorded in the artist’s photo-archive, titled as above; also recorded in the artist’s Cahier Noir, titled as above, Page 72.

PROVENANCE:
Artist’s estate
Leonard Hutton Galleries, New York

EXHIBITION:
1922 Beginning of November
Galerie Emil Richter, Dresden
“Alexej von Jawlensky” (exhibition list only).

1923 Kunsthütte, Chemnitz
“Alexej von Jawlensky,” Catalogue No. 232 (exhibition list only).

1923 Kunsthaus Schaller, Stuttgart
“Alexej von Jawlensky” (no catalogue).

1923 Galerie Schames, Frankfurt
Group exhibition (according to a letter of December 3, 1923 from Jawlensky to Galka Scheyer).

1983 February 23 - April 17
Städtische Galerie im Lenbachhaus, Munich “Alexej Jawlensky 1864-1941,” Catalogue No, 163, reproducedPage 262. This exhibition then travelled to Staatliche Kunsthalle, Baden-Baden, May 1 - June 26.

1987 March 20 - May 30
Leonard Hutton Galleries, New York
“Jawlensky - Father and Son,” Catalogue No. 52, reproduced in color Page 42.

1991 May 8 - June 5
Galleria del Naviglio, Milan
“Alexej Jawlensky, disegni e pitture,” Catalogue No. 24, reproduced in color.

1992 March 27 - June 14
Fundación Juan March, Madrid
“Alexej von Jawlensky,” Catalogue No, 89, reproduced in color Page 100. This exhibition then travelled to Museu Picasso, Barcelona, June 26 - September 27.

1994 July 2 - September 11
Städtische Galerie Bietigheim-Bissingen
“Alexej von Jawlensky, Gemälde, Aquarelle, Zeichnungen,” Catalogue No. 45, reproduced in color Page 95.

1994 Museum Boymans-van Beuningen, Rotterdam
“Alexej von Jawlensky,” Catalogue No. 99, reproduced in color Page 209.

1995 Palazzo Reale, Milan
“Alexej von Jawlensky,” Catalogue No. 56, reproduced in color.

1997 Künstlerhaus, Graz
“Alexej von Jawlensky, Passion and Knowledge,” Catalogue No. 17, reproduced in color Page 91.

2000 National Museum of Russia, St. Petersburg
“Alexej von Jawlensky.”

2001/ 02
Palazzo Ducale, Geneva
“Kandinsky, Wrubel, Jawlensky,” Catalogue No. 215, reproduced in color Page 296.

Clemens Weiler, Alexej Jawlensky, Verlag M. DuMont Schauberg, Cologne, 1959, No. 277 reproduced Page 247.

RECORDED AND ILLUSTRATED:
Clemens Weiler, Alexej Jawlensky: Köpfe, Gesichte, Meditationen, Dr. Hans Peters Verlag Hanau, 1970, No. 152 recorded Page 143.

Maria Jawlensky, Lucia Pieroni-Jawlensky and Angelica Jawlensky, Alexej von Jawlensky Catalogue Raisonné of the Oil Paintings, Volume Two 1914-1933, Sotheby’s Publications, London 1992, No. 1155 recorded Page 343, reproduced in color Page 351.