Oil on linen-structured paper 52.6 x 35.1 cm, mounted on cardboard 53.2 x 35.1 cm, framed. At lower left monogrammed A.vJ., at right dated 1916 in black. On back side of cardboard inscribed N.3/1916 in black ink, probably by the artist, and titled above "Grosse Variationen/ No3, 1916 St. Prex" in blue ink by the son, Andreas Jawlensky, with the addition "Nach dem Frühlingsregen" [in wavy underline]. - On the back side with printed gallery labels of Leonard Hutton Galleries, New York and Marlborough Fine Art, London, at upper left a round French customs stamp. - The upper left edge of cardboard slightly compressed.
M.Jawlensky/Pieroni-Jawlensky/A. Jawlensky 839 with colour ill. p. 141
Certificate
We would like to thank the Jawlensky Archive, Locarno, for additional information.
Provenance
Redfern Gallery, London (1956); Galerie La Motte, Geneva (1962); Leonard Hutton Galleries, New York (1965); Marlborough Gallery, London (1966); Roman Norbert Ketterer, Campione d'Italia (1968, 1971); Galerie La Motte, Geneva (1971); private possession Switzerland (since 1972)
Literature
Clemens Weiler, Alexej Jawlensky, Köpfe, Gesichte, Meditationen, Hanau 1970, nr. 1188 ("Nr. 3 St. Prex 1916 ohne Rand, Große Variation 52/32")
Exhibitions
London 1956 (Redfern Gallery), Alexej von Jawlensky, cat. nr. 34; London 1959 (Redfern Gallery), Michael Ayrton, Jawlensky, Vieira da Silva, nr. 69; London 1960 (Redfern Gallery), Alexej von Jawlensky, nr. 7 with ill.; New York 1965 (Leonard Hutton Galleries), A Centennial Exhibition of Paintings by Alexej Jawlensky, cat. nr. 34 ("Large Variation - St. Prex - Blossoming after Spring Rain"); London 1966 (Marlborough Gallery), Kandinsky and his Friends, nr. 61 with ill. p. 40; Campione d'Italia 1968 (R.N. Ketterer), Moderne Kunst V, cat. nr. 57 with colour ill. p. 71; Campione d'Italia 1971 (R.N. Ketterer), Moderne Kunst VII, cat. nr. 55 with colour ill. p. 109; Geneva 1971, Galerie La Motte, auction, nr. 194 with ill. p. 80