Alexej von Jawlensky

Galka Scheyer, Hollywood (acquired directly from the artist in 1933)
Jim Sharp, San Francisco
Feigen-Palmer Gallery, Los Angeles
Acquired from the above in 1966

Oakland, California, Mills College Art Gallery, Modern Paintings and Sculpture from Private Collections in the San Francisco Bay Region, 1937, no. 29

Maria Jawlensky, Lucia Pieroni-Jawlensky & Angelica Jawlensky, Alexej von Jawlensky: Catalogue Raisonné of the Oil Paintings, 1934-37, vol. III, London, 1992, no. 2260, illustrated in color p. 396

Board is stable. Minor frame rubbing to extreme perimeter with a few minor losses at top edge. A few pindot size losses in black rectangle at upper left and to left of black vertical line in blue pigment. On reverse, inscribed "Made in Germany November" by Galka Scheyer over an overpainted still-life depicting a plate of apples. Under UV light: there is a 1/2 inch line of inpainting in the light blue pigment at center of bottom edge, otherwise fine. Work is in very good condition.
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Fig.1 The artist in his studio in 1934, the year in which he began the Meditations