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| Image | Sale date | Auction house | Location | Sale name | Lot No. | Estimate | Price Sold | Condition | Title |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Dec 8, 2023 | Ketterer Kunst | Munich | Evening Sale | 9 | Estimates not disclosed | Abstrakter Kopf (Konstruktiver Kopf) |
paintings
42.5 x 32.2 cm (16.73 x 12.68 in)
Oil on cardboard
Lower left monogrammed and lower right dated. Inscribed with the dedication "Für Frau Dora Ritschl mit Verehrung" on the reverse. There also signed and dated "1934"
Collection of Dorothea "Dora" Ritschl, neé Nötzel, Wiesbaden (gifted from the artist in 1934, with a dedication on the reverse and the note "Eigent. Ritschl"). Presumably Otto Ritschl Collection, Wiesbaden (inherited from the above in 1958). Karlheinz Gabler Collection, Frankfurt am Main (acquired from the above in 1959, Stuttgarter Kunstkabinett, Stuttgart). Galerie Wilhelm Grosshennig, Düsseldorf (acquired in 1968, Lempertz, Cologne). Private collection North Rhine-Westphalia. Ever since family-owned.
Ausstellung deutscher und französischer Meisterwerke des 20. Jahrhunderts. Gemälde, Plastik, Aquarelle, Handzeichnungen, Galerie Wilhelm Grosshennig, Düsseldorf, November 10, 1968 - January 31, 1969 (fig., p. 77).
Maria Jawlensky, Lucia Pieroni-Jawlensky, Angelica Jawlensky, Alexej Jawlensky. Catalogue Raisonné of the Oil Paintings, vol. II (1914-1933), Munich 1992, p. 489, no. 1435 (fig. of front and rear) Clemens Weiler, Alexej Jawlensky, Cologne 1959, cat. no. 379 (titled "Konstruktiver Kopf", fig., p. 254). Stuttgarter Kunstkabinett Roman Norbert Ketterer, Stuttgart, 34th auction, Moderne Kunst, November 20/21, 1959, lot 302 (titled "Konstruktiver Kopf", fig., plate 117, with a fragmentarily preserved label and with inscriptions on the reverse). Kunsthaus Lempertz, Cologne, 499th auction, Kunst des XX. Jahrhunderts, May 30, 1968, lot 354 (fig., plate 3). Galerie Wolfgang Ketterer, Munich, 3rd auction, Moderne Kunst, June 8 - 10, 1970, lot 624 (fig., p. 137). Maria Jawlensky, Lucia Pieroni-Jawlensky u. Angelica Jawlensky, Alexej von Jawlensky. Catalogue Raisonné of the Oil Paintings, London 1992, vol. II, cat. no. 1435, pp. 489f. (fig., p. 489).
Abstrakter Kopf (Konstruktiver Kopf) . 1933. Oil on cardboard. Lower left monogrammed and lower right dated. Inscribed with the dedication "Für Frau Dora Ritschl mit Verehrung" on the reverse. There also signed and dated "1934". 42.5 x 32.2 cm (16.7 x 12.6 in). • Owing to the warm and earthen palette, this is an exceptionally beautiful work from the important series of the "Abstract Heads". • As in a constructivist painting, Jawlensky conceived this composition from basic geometric shapes and straight lines. • Made at the peak of the "Abstract Heads", the work, in maximum reduction to clear forms, marks the transitions to the "Meditations" .
