Sicilian Girl in Blue Shawl
Artist
Alexej von Jawlensky
(Russian, 1864 - 1941)
Date1913
MediumOil on board
Dimensions25 3/4 x 18 3/4 in. (65.4 x 47.6 cm)
Overall, Frame: 34 1/2 x 27 x 2 1/2 in. (87.6 x 68.6 x 6.4 cm)
Overall, Frame: 34 1/2 x 27 x 2 1/2 in. (87.6 x 68.6 x 6.4 cm)
ClassificationsModern art
Credit LineGift of Walter P. Chrysler, Jr.
Object number71.663
Terms
- Face
- Girl
- Blue
- Red
- Pink
- Black
- Yellow
On View
On viewLabel TextAlexej von Jawlensky Russian, 1864–1941 Sicilian Girl in Blue Shawl, 1913 Oil on board My language, after all, is color…apples, trees, human faces are only hints to me to behold something more in them: the life of color grasped by a passionate man… —Alexej von Jawlensky Alexej von Jawlensky’s Sicilian Girl stares at us with wide, hypnotic eyes filled with an emotional intensity that seems otherworldly. In Fauve works like this one, Jawlensky united the religious power of traditional Russian icons with the bold colors he saw in the works of Henri Matisse and the German avant-garde painters with whom he studied in Munich immediately before World War I. Gift of Walter P. Chrysler, Jr. 71.663
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