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Materials:

blue pencil on paper

Size Notes:

16½ by 11¼ in.

Edition:

Executed in Wiesbaden in 1921-22.

Description:

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Markings:

signed A. Jawlensky (lower left)

Condition:

Please note this work is being offered without a frame. Executed on cream wove paper. Hinged to the window mount of the verso in the upper left and right corners. The sheet is lightly time stained. The upper, lower and right edges are slightly discolored, most likely due to a previous mount. Some spots of light foxing throughout the sheet, most notably in the lower left quadrant. This work is in good condition.

Literature:

Maria Jawlensky, Lucia Pieroni-Jawlensky & Angelica Jawlensky Bianconi, Alexej von Jawlensky: Catalogue raisonné of the Watercolours and Drawings 1890-1938, London, vol. IV, 1998, no. 450, p. 196, illustrated

Provenance:

Estate of the Artist Lisa Kümmel, Wiesbaden Karl Kümmel, Wiesbaden (acquired by descent from the above) Private Collection, United States Sylvia C. Pallock Sotheby's New York, 19 April 1984, lot 119 (consigned by the above) Private Collection, United States (acquired from the above) Richard D. Smith, Wichita Sotheby's London, 4 February 2004, lot 538 (consigned by the above) Maria Angelopoulos, Greece (acquired from the above) Christie's London, 5 February 2008, lot 545 (consigned by the above) Private Collection, Europe Ketterer Kunst Munich, 4 June 2008, lot 345 Galerie Thomas, Munich Acquired from the above in 2011 by the present owner