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| Image | Sale date | Auction house | Location | Sale name | Lot No. | Estimate | Price Sold | Condition | Title |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
May 9, 2018 | Ketterer Kunst | Munich | Modern Art I | 692 | $****** - ****** | Gelbe Häuser |
paintings
53.5 x 49.5 cm (21.06 x 19.49 in)
Oil on board
Lower left signed. Verso signed, dated and inscribed "N.19"
Presumably Karl Im Obersteg, Basel (as loan as of July 1933).
Dr. Staebli, Davos (acquired from the artist in September 1933; according to Lisa Kýmmel's entry in the artist's sales book).
Presumably Mrs Schottlýnder, Lucerne.
Aenne Abels, Cologne.
Siegfried Adler, Cologne/Montagnola (acquired from aforementioned, presumably around the mid 1950s).
Private collection Wiesbaden (acquired from the ancestors of today's owner before 1957).
Moderne Kunst aus Wiesbadener Privatbesitz, Stýdtisches Museum, Wiesbaden, July 10 - August 25, 1957, cat. no. 70.
Jawlensky. Form, Farbe, Fertigung, Kunstverein fýr die Rheinlande und Westfalen, Dýsseldorf, September 1957; Hamburger Kunstverein, Hamburg October/November 1957; Kunsthalle Bremen, December 1957 - January 1958, no. 57.
Alexej Jawlensky, Wýrttembergischer Kunstverein, Stuttgart, February/March 1958; Stýdtische Kunsthalle, Mannheim, March 22 - April 20, 1958, cat. no. 20.
Alexej von Jawlensky, Stýdtisches Museum, Wiesbaden, March - May 1964, cat. no. 10.
Alexej von Jawlensky, Stýdtische Galerie im Lenbachhaus, Munich, July - September 1964, cat. no. 47.
Alexej von Jawlensky, Frankfurter Kunstverein, Frankfurt am Main, September/October 1967; Hamburger Kunstverein, Hamburg, October - December 1967, cat. no. 78, with color illu.
Clemens Weiler, Alexej Jawlensky, Cologne 1959, no. 536, with full-page color illu. on p. 68.
Wolf Dieter Dube, The expressionists, London 1972, no. 87, with illu.
ýI began to paint in order to express in colors what nature told me to. Through hard work and with great excitement I gradually attained the right forms and colors in order to express what my spiritual self was longing for.ý
Alexej von Jawlensky, Memoires 1937.
"To me faces just hint at what else is to be seen: the color's life, captured with passion, with love"
Alexej von Jawlensky, quote from: C. Weiler, 1970, no. 1, no p.
Gelbe Hýuser. 1909.
Oil on board.
Jawlensky/Pieroni-Jawlensky 264. Lower left signed. Verso signed, dated and inscribed "N.19". 53.5 x 49.5 cm (21 x 19.4 in).
Verso with a to date unknown incomplete portrait of Helene Nesnakomoff, young lover and later wife of the artist, wearing a turban. For decades Jawlensky lived with his artistic companion Marianne von Werefkin and Helene in a love triangle.
We are grateful to Mrs Angelica Jawlensky Bianconi, Alexej von Jawlensky-Archive S.A., for her kind expert advice.
PROVENANCE: Presumably Karl Im Obersteg, Basel (as loan as of July 1933).
Dr. Staebli, Davos (acquired from the artist in September 1933; according to Lisa Kýmmel's entry in the artist's sales book).
Presumably Mrs Schottlýnder, Lucerne.
Aenne Abels, Cologne.
Siegfried Adler, Cologne/Montagnola (acquired from aforementioned, presumably around the mid 1950s).
Private collection Wiesbaden (acquired from the ancestors of today's owner before 1957).
EXHIBITION: Moderne Kunst aus Wiesbadener Privatbesitz, Stýdtisches Museum, Wiesbaden, July 10 - August 25, 1957, cat. no. 70.
Jawlensky. Form, Farbe, Fertigung, Kunstverein fýr die Rheinlande und Westfalen, Dýsseldorf, September 1957; Hamburger Kunstverein, Hamburg October/November 1957; Kunsthalle Bremen, December 1957 - January 1958, no. 57.
Alexej Jawlensky, Wýrttembergischer Kunstverein, Stuttgart, February/March 1958; Stýdtische Kunsthalle, Mannheim, March 22 - April 20, 1958, cat. no. 20.
Alexej von Jawlensky, Stýdtisches Museum, Wiesbaden, March - May 1964, cat. no. 10.
Alexej von Jawlensky, Stýdtische Galerie im Lenbachhaus, Munich, July - September 1964, cat. no. 47.
Alexej von Jawlensky, Frankfurter Kunstverein, Frankfurt am Main, September/October 1967; Hamburger Kunstverein, Hamburg, October - December 1967, cat. no. 78, with color illu.
LITERATURE: Clemens Weiler, Alexej Jawlensky, Cologne 1959, no. 536, with full-page color illu. on p. 68.
Wolf Dieter Dube, The expressionists, London 1972, no. 87, with illu.
ýI began to paint in order to express in colors what nature told me to. Through hard work and with great excitement I gradually attained the right forms and colors in order to express what my spiritual self was longing for.ý
Alexej von Jawlensky, Memoires 1937.
"To me faces just hint at what else is to be seen: the color's life, captured with passion, with love"
Alexej von Jawlensky, quote from: C. Weiler, 1970, no. 1, no p.
