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Alexei Jawlensky
Heads1922

Not on view
Pencil drawing on white paper, abstracted human head with peaked top, horizontal band, and minimal vertical line suggesting a nose
Pencil drawing of a stylized frontal face rendered in minimal lines: almond-shaped eyes, a vertical straight nose, a horizontal line for the mouth, and a diamond-shaped crown above the brow, with wavy lines suggesting hair at the sides.
Pencil drawing of a simplified, frontal face rendered in minimal fine lines on white paper, with wavy horizontal lines suggesting hair at top and an almond-shaped eye form at right.
Pencil drawing of a stylized human face in near-profile, rendered with minimal continuous line work on white paper; small dots suggest an eye, with no shading.
Pencil drawing of a stylized face in near-profile, rendered with sparse, continuous lines suggesting a nose, jaw, and cascading hair, with minimal shading on white paper.
Pencil drawing of a stylized frontal face rendered in sparse, continuous lines on white paper, with closed almond-shaped eyes, a minimal nose, and small closed mouth within a rounded oval head form.
Artist or Maker
Alexei Jawlensky
Russia, also active Switzerland and Germany 1864-1941
Publisher
Nassauischer Kunstverein, Neues Museum Wiesbaden
Title
Heads
Place Made
Germany, Wiesbaden
Date Made
1922
Medium
Six lithographs on Japan paper
Dimensions
Sheets: 18 3/4 x 12 3/4 in. (47.63 x 32.39 cm)
Credit Line
The Robert Gore Rifkind Center for German Expressionist Studies
Accession Number
M.82.288.103a-f
Classification
Prints
Collecting Area
Robert Gore Rifkind Center for German Expressionist Studies
Selected Bibliography
  • Peters, Olaf, ed. 2014. Degenerate Art: the Attack on Modern Art in Nazi Germany, 1937. New York: Neue Galerie.