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    Open a larger version of the following image in a popup: Alexej von Jawlensky, Heilandsgesicht (Savior's Face), c. 1921
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    Alexej von Jawlensky Russia, 1864-1941

    Heilandsgesicht (Savior's Face), c. 1921
    Oil on linen-finished paper laid down on canvas
    36.3 by 27.1 cm (14¼ by 10⅝ in.)
    Signed 'A.J.' (lower left)
    66295
    © 2020 Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York
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    Executed circa 1921. Heilandsgesicht (Savior's Face) demonstrates Alexej von Jawlensky’s remarkable ability to create an image of contemplative beauty and pathos within a highly pared-down method of painting. Beginning around...
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    Executed circa 1921. Heilandsgesicht (Savior's Face) demonstrates Alexej von Jawlensky’s remarkable ability to create an image of contemplative beauty and pathos within a highly pared-down method of painting. Beginning around 1910, Jawlensky employed the human head as an apparatus to which to apply his highly subjective strategies of modernist painting, such as isolated lines, grids, and gradients accompanied by an expressive palette, in lieu of a traditionally representational rendering. His heads reference both the religious icons from his childhood spent in Russia and Modernism’s interest in the simplified forms of non-Western art.

    Provenance

    Hammer Galleries, New York

    Sale: Parke Bernet New York, December 12, 1968, lot 19

    Serge Sabarsky Gallery, New York

    Saltzman Family Collection, New York (acquired by 1992)

    Leonard Hutton Galleries, New York

    Davis Family Collection (acquired from the above April 16, 1998; sale: Christie's London, June 25, 2014, lot 352)

    Private Collection

    Literature

    M. Jawlensky and L. Pieroni-Jawlensky, Alexej von Jawlensky: Catalogue Raisonné of Oil Paintings Vol. II, 1914-1933, London, 1992, no. 1138, illustrated p. 323 (mentioned p. 337)

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