Alexej von Jawlensky

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Description

Alexej von Jawlensky
STILLEBEN MIT HYAZINTHE, BLAUEM KRUG UND ÄPFELN (STILL-LIFE WITH HYACINTH, BLUE JUG AND APPLES)
oil on board laid down on panel
50 by 53cm.
19 5/8 by 20 7/8 in.

Provenance

Sale: Lempertz, Cologne, 11th June 1963, lot 305
Purchased at the above sale by the father of the present owners

Literature

Maria Jawlensky, Lucia Pieroni-Jawlensky and Angelica Jawlensky, Alexej von Jawlensky, Catalogue Raisonné of the Oil Paintings, 1890-1914, London, 1991, vol. I, no. 566, illustrated p. 432

Catalogue Note

Painted circa 1912, the present still-life is a wonderfully vivid composition that belongs to the most innovative period of Jawlensky's œuvre during which, in his own words, he created some of his most powerful works. With its strong colours and vigorous brushwork, this still-life reflects the impression that Fauve painting made on the artist. In 1905 Jawlensky met Matisse, whose work, together with the art of Gauguin and Van Gogh, constituted one of the major influences on his art at the time. In his memoires, dictated to Lisa Kümmel in 1937, Jawlensky recalled: 'At that time I was painting mostly still-lives because in them I could more easily find myself. I tried in these still-life paintings to go beyond the material objects and express in colour and form the thing which was vibrating within me, and I achieved some good results' (quoted in M. Jawlensky, L. Pieroni-Jawlensky and A. Jawlensky, op. cit., p. 30).