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Alexej von Jawlensky

Frosty Day, 1915

Not on View

Medium

oil on canvas board

Dimensions

overall: 26.7 x 35.6 cm (10 1/2 x 14 in.)

framed: 61 x 52.7 x 4.8 cm (24 x 20 3/4 x 1 7/8 in.)

Credit Line

Gift of Benjamin and Lillian Hertzberg

Accession Number

2004.140.39

Artists / Makers

Alexej von Jawlensky (painter) Russian, 1864 - 1941

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Inscription

lower left: A.J.; upper right reverse: A. Jawlensky / 1915 / No 1.; center reverse, all by Emmy Galka Scheyer: Frosttag / "Frosty day" / made in Germany

Provenance

Consigned to Emmy Scheyer (1889-1945, known from 1924 as Galka E. Scheyer), Hollywood, California, probably 1924;[1] probably returned 1928 to the artist; consigned 1933 to Galka E. Scheyer, Hollywood; (compulsory sale, U.S. Department of Justice, Office of Alien Property, Los Angeles, 1954, lot 8, no. 54);[2] (Paul Kantor Gallery, Los Angeles). (Kleemann Galleries, New York).[3] Benjamin and Lilian Hertzberg, New York; bequest 2004 to NGA.

[1] Provenance as given by Maria Jawlensky, Lucia Pieroni-Jawlensky, and Angelica Jawlensky, Alexej von Jawlensky: Catalogue Raisonné of the Oil Paintings, Volume Two 1914-1933, London, 1992: no. 664.

[2] The number "54" is inscribed on the reverse of the painting in an aqua-green color.

[3] There is a label on the reverse from Kleemann Galleries, New York, with the number K7075; it is possible this is where the Hertzbergs purchased the painting.

Associated Names

Hertzberg, Lilian and Benjamin, Estate of

Exhibition History

1920: [travelling exhibition, in Germany, organized by Emmy Scheyer], 1920-1921.

1922: [Jawlensky exhibition], Galerie Emil Richter, Dresden, 1922, no cat.

1923: [Jawlensky exhibition], Kunsthaus Schaller, Stuttgart, no cat.

1923: [Jawlensky exhibition], Kunsthütte, Chemnitz, 1923, no. 245, no cat.

1929: Die Blauen Vier Galerie Ferdinand Möller, Berlin, 1929, no. 60.

1933: The Blue Four, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, 1933, no. 53.

1956: Alexej v. Jawlensky 1864-1941, Kleemann Galleries, New York, 1956, no. 15, repro.

2017: Alexei Jawlensky, Neue Galerie, New York, 2017.

Bibliography

1920: Scheyer, E.E. "Alexej Jawlensky." Das Kunstblatt (1920): 163, repro., as Variation I.

1959: Weiler, Clemens. Alexej Jawlensky. Cologne, 1959: no. 600.

1970: Weiler, Clemens. Köpfe, Geschicte, Meditationen. Hanau, 1970: no. 1161 (English translation by Edith Küstner and J.A. Underwood, New York, 1971).

1991: Jawlensky, Maria, Lucia Pieroni-Jawlensky, and Angelica Jawlensky. Alexej von Jawlensky: Catalogue Raisonné of the Oil Paintings 4 vols. London, 1991: 2:no. 664, repro.