Head III

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Head III

Alternate Title: Kopf III
Edition: From the deluxe edition of 20 on japan paper (total edition of 100)
Portfolio (orig. lang.): Köpfe
Portfolio (translation): Heads
Plate: Plate 3
Germany, 1922
Prints; lithographs
Lithograph on Japan paper
Image: 11 x 9 7/16 in. (27.94 x 23.97 cm) irregular; Sheet: 18 3/4 x 12 3/4 in. (47.63 x 32.39 cm)
The Robert Gore Rifkind Center for German Expressionist Studies (M.82.288.103c)
Not currently on public view

Label

Each face in Alexei Jawlensky’s six-image portfolio Heads (Köpfe) was constructed with the barest number of elements; no more than eighteen lines or dots appear on any single sheet....
Each face in Alexei Jawlensky’s six-image portfolio Heads (Köpfe) was constructed with the barest number of elements; no more than eighteen lines or dots appear on any single sheet. These are not, strictly speaking, portraits. They have more in common with religious icons from Jawlensky’s native Russia, and reflect the artist’s persistent interest in the human face, about which he said, “In the face, the whole universe is revealed.”

Exhibition Label: The Expressive Gaze: Portraits and Self-Portraits, 2022, Erin Maynes.
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Bibliography

  • Reed, Orrel P., German expressionist art:  the Robert Gore Rifkind Collection:  prints, drawings, illustrated books, periodicals, posters. Exhibition Catalogue. Los Angeles: Frederick S. Wight Art Gallery, University of California, Los Angeles, 1977.
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