Alexej von Jawlensky

Alexej von Jawlensky 1864 - 1941 Stillleben. 1910. Oil on cardboard. Jawlensky/Pieroni-Jawlensky/Jawlensky 2230. Signed in the lower right, dated on the reverse. Titled, signed and inscribed “n 9” by the artist on a label on the reverse. Inscribed “A. J. Eddy” and “8” by a hand other than the artist’s. 49.5 x 53 cm (19.4 x 20.8 in). The work depicted in the background of the painting is Jawlensky’s “Murnau—Landschaft mit orangener Wolke” from 1909. [EH]. • MUSEUM QUALITY An exceptional work of museum quality. • COLOR EXPRESSION Radical color contrasts and mysterious darkness lend the still life an extraordinary expressiveness. • SELF-REFERENCE Jawlensky incorporates his own 1909 landscape painting of Murnau, thus combining two central genres of painting. • PROVENANCE From the collection of Arthur Jerome Eddy, an early patron of modern art in the United States, and Katharina Kuh, gallery owner and first curator of European art at the Art Institute of Chicago. PROVENANCE: Private collection of Arthur Jerome Eddy, Chicago, USA (acquired from the above around 1913; inscribed in pencil on the artist's label on the reverse). Jerome O. Eddy, Chicago & Skull Valley, Arizona (inherited from the above, 1920–1937; Williams, Barker & Severn Co.). Private collection of Katharina Kuh, Chicago, USA (acquired from the above in 1937). Private collection of Peter and Katinka de Vries, Westport, CT, USA (acquired from the above around 1938; until 1992: Christie’s, New York, April 13, 1992). Private collection, Canada (acquired from the above in 1992). Dietmar Manke Collection, Schleswig-Holstein. EXHIBITION: Lebensmenschen. Alexej von Jawlensky und Marianne von Werefkin, Lenbachhaus Munich, Ocotber 22, 2019 - February 16, 2020; Museum Wiesbaden, March 13 - August 23, 2020, cat. no. 76, illustrated on p. 143. LITERATURE: Maria Jawlensky, Lucia Pieroni-Jawlensky, Angelica Jawlensky, Alexej von Jawlensky. Catalogue Raisonné of the Oil Paintings, vol. 3: 1890–1914, Munich 1991, p. 407 with black-and-white illustration and p. 435, CR no. 2230. - - Williams, Barker & Severn Co., Chicago, The Late Arthur J. Eddy, Extraordinary Collection of One Hundred and Ten Modernistic Paintings and Antique Oriental Rugs, January 20, 1937, Lot 48. Christie’s, New York, auction April 13, 1992, lot 221 (with color illustration). Alexej von Jawlensky. Catalogue Raisonné of the Oil Paintings. Volume Three 1934–1937, ed. by Maria Jawlensky, Lucia Pieroni-Jawlensky, and Angelica Jawlensky, Munich 1993, no. 2230, p. 407. Alexej von Jawlensky, Lebenserinnerungen, 1937, quoted from: Exhibition catalog Alexej Jawlensky. Vom Abbild zum Urbild, Galerie im Ganserhaus, Wasserburg am Inn, September 15 - October 28, 1979, p. 55. Called up: December 4, 2026 - ca. 17.32 h +/- 20 min.

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