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Alexej von Jawlensky

Torzhok 1864 – 1941 Wiesbaden

„Große Meditation: Schweben“. 1937

Oil on linen-structured paper, laid down on cardboard. 24,7 x 17,4 cm (9 ¾ x 6 ⅞ in.).
This picture shows the following artwork: Alexej von Jawlensky. „Große Meditation: Schweben“. 1937.

Estimate:

EUR 25,000

 

- 35,000

USD 36,800

 

- 51,500

Sold for:

29,750 EUR (incl. premium)

Auctions 168-171

19th, 20th and 21st Century Art, Saturday, 28.11.2009

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Oil on linen-structured paper, laid down on cardboard. 24,7 x 17,4 cm (9 ¾ x 6 ⅞ in.). Monogrammed lower left: A.J. Dated lower right: 37. Inscribed with black pen by Lisa Kümmel on the reverse: A. Jawlensky II 1937 N. 12. Below this inscribed in blue: Große Meditation X „Schweben“. Catalogue raisonné: Jawlensky 2141. Upper right minor loss in the paper. Framed

Estate of the artist / Private collection, Locarno / Dalzell Hatfield Galleries, Los Angeles / Virginia Steele Scott Foundation, Pasadena / Private collection, Southern Germany

Maîtres de l’art moderne. Basel, Galerie Beyeler, 1957, cat. no. 75

Clemens Weiler: Alexej Jawlensky. Cologne, Verlag M. DuMont Schauberg, 1959, p. 260, cat. no. 488, illustration / Clemens Weiler: Alexej Jawlensky, Köpfe, Gesichte, Meditationen. Hanau, Dr. Hans Peters Verlag, 1970, cat. no. 1060 / Ewald Rathke: Alexej Jawlensky, Meditationen. Hanau, Dr. Hans Peters Verlag, 1983, full-page colour ill. p. 61

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