Oil on artist's cardboard with linen structure, mounted onto sturdy cardboard 62 x 50.6 cm, framed under glass. Signed A. Jawlensky in blue at upper right, on the frame cardboard backing with the faded brown ink number N 1. - The frame cardboard backing with two exhibition labels, Frankfurt/Hamburg 1967, and with a Swiss customs stamp on the back of the frame. - The upper right corner with two old small losses of paint possibly restored by Jawlensky.
M. Jawlensky/Pieroni-Jawlensky/A. Jawlensky 366
Catalogue Raisonné
M. Jawlensky/Pieroni-Jawlensky/A. Jawlensky 366
Provenance
Acquired directly from the artist by the previous owner, since then in family possession; formerly Dr. Pagenstecher, Wiesbaden; Dr. Walter Höllein, Wiesbaden; private collection
Literature
Clemens Weiler, Alexej Jawlensky, Cologne 1959, nr. 732, ill. p. 279; Jürgen Schultze, Alexej Jawlensky, Cologne 1970, with full-page col. ill. nr. 6, p. 23
Exhibitions
Wiesbaden 1912 (Museum Wiesbaden?), exhib. of the Wiesbadener Gesellschaft für bildende Kunst, nr. 55; Wiesbaden 1919 (Neues Museum), Ausst. aus Wiesbadener Privatbesitz, nr. 55 "Cinnien"; Frankfurt/München 1954 (Frankfurter Kunstkabinett/Kunstkabinett Klihm), cat. nr. 6; Wiesbaden 1954 (Neues Museum), nr. 2; Wiesbaden 1957 (Neues Museum), nr. 72; Frankfurt/Hamburg 1967 (Frankfurter Kunstverein Steinernes Haus/Kunstverein in Hamburg), Jawlensky, cat. nr. 117 with full-page col. ill. (with labels on the frame backing)