Lot Details
Lot 711
Alexej von Jawlensky Russian, 1864-1941 VARIATION
Russian, 1864-1941
VARIATION
Signed with initials A.J. (ll)
Painted circa 1918
Oil on linen-finish paper laid down on board
14 3/8 x 10 7/8 inches (36.5 x 27.7 cm.)
Provenance:
Lempertz, Cologne, 1963, lot 334
David Findlay Jr. Fine Art, New York
Literature:
Maria Jawlensky, Lucia Pieroni Jawlensky and Angelica Jawlensky, Catalogue Raisonne of the Oil Paintings, 1914-1933, Munich, 1992, vol. II, no.1019, illus.
The landscape variations, which Jawlensky once described as "songs without words," were painted in the village of Saint-Prex on Lake Geneva, where Jawlensky lived from 1914 to March 1917. What began as naturalistic views of what the artist saw from his window became more and more abstract. The artist, discussing these works in his memoirs, stated: I started trying to express through painting what I felt nature prompting me to say. By means of hard work and tremendous concentration, I gradually found the right colors and forms to express what my spiritual self demanded. The paintings exist in two sizes, but from 1917 on, the artist only used the smaller format. The Variations are more an expression of an inward state than actual landscape painting.
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