- Artist or Maker
- Alexei Jawlensky
Russia, also active Switzerland and Germany 1864-1941 - Title
- Head III
- Date Made
- 1922
- Medium
- Lithograph on Japan paper
- Dimensions
- 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)
- Accession Number
- M.82.288.103c
- Collecting Area
- Robert Gore Rifkind Center for German Expressionist Studies
- Curatorial Notes
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.
- Selected Bibliography
Davis, Bruce. German Expressionist Prints and Drawings: The Robert Gore Rifkind Center for German Expressionist Studies. Los Angeles, CA: Los Angeles County Museum of Art, 1989; Munich, Germany: Prestel, 1989.
- 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.
Barron, Stephanie et al. Degenerate Art: The Fate of the Avant-Garde in Nazi Germany. Los Angeles: Los Angeles County Museum of Art, 1991.
- Copyright
- © Alexej von Jawlensky / Artists Rights Society (ARS) New York
