6 June 2018 Russian Art Auctions

6 June 2018

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Grosse Meditation

* 61. JAWLENSKY, ALEXEJ VON (1864-1941)

Grosse Meditation .

Oil on paper, laid on cardboard, 25 by 17.5 cm (image size).
50,000-70,000 GBP


Provenance: Christie’s Düsseldorf, 20 June 1973, lot 38.
Private collection, Germany.

Exhibited: Marianne Werefkin. Colours of a Travelling Soul, Artrust, Melano, Switzerland, 10 October– 10 December 2016.

Literature: M. Jawlensky, L. Pieroni-Jawlensky, A. Jawlensky, Alexej von Jawlensky. Catalogue Raisonné of the Oil Paintings, Volume Three, 1934–1937, London, Sotheby’s Publications, 1993, p. 295, No. 2041, illustrated in black and white.
Exhibition catalogue, Marianne Werefkin. I colori di un’anima in viaggio, Melano, Artrust, 2016, p. 87, illustrated.


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