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| Image | Sale date | Auction house | Location | Sale name | Lot No. | Estimate | Price Sold | Condition | Title |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Jun 6, 2025 | Ketterer Kunst | Munich | Evening Sale | 43 | $****** - ****** | Kopf in Bronzefarben - Bildnis Sacharoff |
paintings
55.5 x 51 cm (21.85 x 20.08 in)
Oil on paper, laminated on cardboard.
Signed and dated in the upper right
Artist"s studio (until 1921). Edmund Fabry Collection (1892-1939), Wiesbaden (acquired from the above in January / February 1921). Anna Marie Fabry, neé Meyer, remarried Weinschenk/Weinschenck (1905-1978), Wiesbaden (from the above, until the summer of 1950). Dr. Hans Lühdorf Collection (1910-1983), Düsseldorf (acquired from the above in the summer of 1950 through the agency of Eberhard Freiherr Schenk zu Schweinsberg). Estate of Dr. Hans Lühdorf (until 1984: Christie"s). Francis Lombrail, Paris (until 1990: Champin-Lombrail-Gautier). Presumably private collection, Paris. Galerie Thomas, Munich. Private collection, Germany (acquired from the above in 2000).
• Significant provenance and exhibition history: presented at the first exhibition of the New Munich Secession as early as 1914 and part of the important collections of Edmund Fabry and Dr. Hans Lühdorf for many decades . We are grateful to Ms. Angelica Jawlensky-Bianconi, Alexej von Jawlensky Archive S.A., Muralto, Switzerland, and Dr. Roman Zieglgängsberger, Academic Advisory Board of the Alexej von Jawlensky Archive, Muralto/Switzerland, for their kind support in cataloging this lot. Neue Münchner Sezession - Erste Ausstellung, Galeriestraße 26, Munich, May 30 - Oct. 1, 1914, cat. no. 63 (illustrated). Alexej von Jawlensky, Traveling Exhibition 1920/21 (with numerous German exhibitions with a rotating program, among them: Frankfurt, Kunstsalon Ludwig Schames, November 1920 and Wiesbaden, Neues Museum, January 1921). Alexej von Jawlensky, Kunstverein Frankfurt, September 16 - October 22, 1967; Kunstverein Hamburg, October 28 - December 3, 1967, cat. no. 32 (illustrated). Selection One. VII Expressionnismes, Galerie Fabien Boulakia, Paris, 1987 (illustrated on p. 31). Alexej von Jawlensky, Pinacoteca Comunale, Casa Rusca, Locarno, September 3 - November 19, 1989; Kunsthalle Emden, Henri Nannen Foundation, Emden, December 3, 1989 - February 23, 1990, cat. no. 57 (illustrated on p. 98). Alexej Jawlensky. Eine Ausstellung zum 50. Todesjahr, Galerie Thomas, Munich, 1990/91, cat. no. 15 (illustrated). Donald E. Gordon, Modern Art exhibitions 1900-1916. Selected catalogue documentation, Munich 1974, cat. no. 15 (illustrated) Christie"s London, December 3, 1984, lot 36 (illustrated in b/w). Champin-Lombrail-Gautier, Enghien-les-Bains, June 21, 1990, lot 17 (illustrated). Angelica Jawlensky, L"ovale mistico, FMR, Milan, February 1991 (illustrated on p. 111). Dresden-Munich-Berlin. Figures du Moderne. Expressionism in Germany 1905-1914, Musée d"Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, 1992/93, cat. no. 225 (illustrated on p. 235). Bernd A. Gülker, Die verzerrte Moderne. Die Karikatur als populäre Kunstkritik in deutschen satirischen Zeitschriften, Münster 2001, p. 38 (illustration 43 on p. 153). Gottlieb Leinz, Das Jahr 1913. Skulptur als Form und Farbe, in: Alexej von Jawlensky-Archiv S. A., Reihe Bild und Wissenschaft. Forschungsbeiträge zu Leben und Werk Alexej von Jawlensky, vol. 2, Locarno 2005, p. 93 (illustrated in b/w, no. 3). The present “Kopf in Bronzefarben" doubtlessly is the counterpart of the "Portrait Sacharoff" in same format. Executed in 1913, it is part of the collection of the Museum Wiesbaden. Hence, it is more than legitimate to title this painting "Portrait Sacharoff", too, especially since the dancer was a frequent guest at the home of Jawlensky and Werefkin. Even if it remains unclear which of them was created first, they must have been painted within a short period of time to capture the perfect moment.” Dr. Roman Zieglgänsberger, member of the Academic Advisory Board of the Alexej von Jawlensky Archive, Muralto/Switzerland, curator of Modern Art, Museum Wiesbaden
Maria Jawlensky, Lucia Pieroni-Jawlensky, Angelica Jawlensky, Alexej von Jawlensky. Catalogue Raisonné of the Oil Paintings, vol. 1: 1890-1914, Munich 1991, cat. no. 602 (illustrated on p. 466). - - Ewald Rathke, Alexej Jawlensky, Hanau 1968, no. 32 (illustrated) "[..] an unparalleled year, the year marking the beginning of the modern era: 1913. Extremes were explored in literature, art, and music as if there was no tomorrow. ” Florian Illies, 1913. Der Sommer des Jahrhunderts, Frankfurt a. M. 2013, blurb Called up: June 6, 2025 - ca. 18.50 h +/- 20 min.
Alexej von Jawlensky
Kopf in Bronzefarben - Bildnis Sacharoff
1913.
Oil on paper, laminated on cardboard.
Signed and dated in the upper right. 55.5 x 51 cm (21.8 x 20 in). [JS].
• Jawlensky"s outstanding and rare portraits of the star dancer Sacharoff count among the highlights of European Modernism.
• The year 1913: Jawlensky painted his monumental "Heads", Marc his "Tower of Blue Horses", Kirchner his "Berlin Street Scenes" and Schiele his best self-portraits on paper.
• After his portrait of Sacharoff (1909, Lenbachhaus Munich), Jawlensky painted two closely related Expressionist heads after the dancer in 1913: the present "
Kopf in Bronzefarben - Bildnis Sacharoff
" and the “Bildnis Sacharoff” (Jawlensky Collection, Museum Wiesbaden).
