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Red Blossom

Alexej von Jawlensky (AKA Alexej Georgevich von Jawlensky), Russian, (March 26, 1864–March 15, 1941)

Creation date: 1910

Creation place: Germany

Other Information

Type: Oil Painting

Medium and Support: Oil on board

Credit Line: Bequest of Earle W. Grant

Accession Number: 1972.46

Dimensions: 26 1/8 in. x 19 1/2 in. (66.36 cm x 49.53 cm)

Currently on view

Provenance

Alexej von Jawlensky, Wiesbaden, Hessen, Germany (1910 - March 15, 1941)

Andreas Jawlensky, Locarno, Switzerland (March 15, 1941 - 1960)

Dalzell Hatfield Galleries, Los Angeles, California (1960 - May 3, 1960)

Earle Wilkin Grant, San Diego, California (May 3, 1960 - 1972)

San Diego Museum of Art, San Diego, California (1972 - )

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By the year 1910, Jawlensky had moved away from the post-Impressionist, Van Gogh-inspired style of his earlier work and developed a new manner of flattened forms and bright colors. This was partly due to his interest in French Fauvists like Matisse but was especially fostered by Jawlensky’s ties to Kandinsky and Münter, with whom he was then closely associated. The resulting paintings, showing figures in raw, even strident passages of color, are among his most powerful work. Red Blossom is one of a group of paintings from 1910 that depict women wearing hats, carrying flowers or fans, often against strong red or orange backgrounds. A few years earlier, Jawlensky had written, “Apples, trees, human faces are for me only suggestions to see something else in them—the life of color, seized with a lover’s passion.”
Last Updated: 1/11/2023

Exhibition

This object was included in the following exhibitions:

Alexej von Jawlensky: Exhibition of Oil Paintings, 1906-1937 Dalzell Hatfield Galleries , 4/30/1960 - 5/25/1960

Choices from the Grant-Munger Collection San Diego Museum of Art , 4/13/1961 - 5/28/1961

La noche espanola; Flamenco vanguardia y cultura popular 1865-1939 , 12/20/2007 - 8/3/2008

La Noche Española. Flamenco: Vanguardia y Cultura Popular 1865– 1936 Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía , 12/21/2007 - 3/24/2008

The Human Beast: German Expressionism at The San Diego Museum of Art San Diego Museum of Art , 7/21/2012 - 11/11/2012

The Human Beast San Diego Museum of Art , 7/21/2012 - 11/11/2012

Selections of Modern Art The San Diego Museum of Art , 7/23/2013 - 11/3/2013

Expressionism in Germany and France: From Van Gogh to Kandinsky Los Angeles County Museum of Art , 6/8/2014 - 9/14/2014

Van Gogh to Kandinsky: Expressionism to Impressionism, 1900-1914 , 10/11/2014 - 1/25/2015

Art of the 20th Century , 3/28/2015 - 8/16/2015

German Expressionism San Diego Museum of Art , 7/23/2016 - 00/00/00

ALEXÉI VON JAWLENSKY. THE LANDSCAPE OF PORTRAITS Itzhak Goldberg , 2/11/2021 - 2/22/2022

Bibliography

This object has the following bibliographic references:

Ms. Mary Stofflet. San Diego Museum of Art, San Diego Museum of Art. San Diego, California, 1993
Page Number: 178, 182, 183, Figure Number: 183

Victoria Jane Ream. Art in Bloom Deseret Equity, Publishing Division. Salt Lake City, Utah, 1997
Page Number: 138, 139, Figure Number: 138

Grant-Munger Collection: San Diego Museum of Art. San Diego, California, May 1970
Page Number: 30, Figure Number: 66

Grant-Munger Collection: San Diego Museum of Art. San Diego, California, May 1970
Page Number: 106, no. 66

Maria Jawlensky and Lucia Pieroni-Jawlensky. Alexej von Jawlensky: Catalogue Raisonné of the Oil Paintings, Sotheby's Publications. London, England, 1991
Page Number: 260-261, no. 315, Figure Number: 315

Maria Jawlensky and Lucia Pieroni-Jawlensky. Alexej von Jawlensky: Catalogue Raisonné of the Oil Paintings, Sotheby's Publications. London, England, 1991
Page Number: 492, no. 315

Maria Jawlensky and Lucia Pieroni-Jawlensky. Alexej von Jawlensky: Catalogue Raisonné of the Oil Paintings, Sotheby's Publications. London, England, 1992
Page Number: 500, no. 315

Mr. Dalzell Hatfield. Artorama: Dalzell Hatfield Galleries. Los Angeles, California, 1960
Page Number: inside front cover, Figure Number: inside fron cover

Mr. Steven Kern. San Diego Museum of Art, San Diego Museum of Art. San Diego, California, 2003
Page Number: 142, Figure Number: 142

Patricia Molins, ed. The Spanish Night Flamenco Avant-Garde and Popular Culture 1865-1936 2009

Patricia Molins and Pedro G. Romero. La Noche Española. Flamenco: Vanguardia y Cultura Popular 1865– 1936 Ministerio de Cultura. Madrid, 2008
Figure Number: 245

Timothy O. Benson and Peter Kropmanns. Expressionism in Germany and France: From Van Gogh to Kandinsky LACMA and Montreal Museum of Fine Arts. Germany, 2014
Page Number: 118, Figure Number: 70

Jawlensky Fundacion Mapfre.
Figure Number: 123