(Torschok 1864–1941 Wiesbaden)
Große Variation: Grüner Schimmer (Large Variation: Green shimmer), 1916, signed and dated A. v. J. 1916, titled and dated on the reverse by Andreas Jawlensky, the artist’s son, further inscribed on the reverse by Lisa Kümmel N. 10. 1916, oil on linen-finished paper laid on cardboard, 52.9 x 38.5 cm, framed

Provenance:
Redfern Gallery, London
Sale Sotheby’s London, 4 December 1974, lot 30
Galerie Gunzenhauser, Munich
Private Collection, North Rhine-Westphalia
Sale Grisebach, Berlin, 27 May 2011, lot 14
Private Collection, Germany - acquired from the above

Exhibited:
A Centennial Exhibition of Paintings by Alexej Jawlensky. New York, Leonard Hutton Galleries, 1965, cat. no. 36.
Die Künstler des Blauen Reiter und ihre Freunde. Munich, Galerie Gunzenhauser, 1975, cat. no. 17.
Alexej von Jawlensky. Das Auge ist der Richter. Essen, Museum Folkwang, 1998, cat. no. 36.

Literature:
Maria Jawlensky, Lucia Pieroni-Jawlensky and Angelica Jawlensky, Alexej von Jawlensky, Catalogue Raisonné of the Oil Paintings, 1914–1933, vol. II, London 1992, no. 836, p. 140, illustrated in colour.

“I started trying to express through painting what I felt nature prompting me to say. By means of hard work and tremendous concentration I gradually found the right colours and forms to express what my spiritual self demanded. I painted these colour variations every day, always drawing my inspiration from nature’s mood at the time and form the way I felt inside me.”

Alexej Jawlensky, Memoirs, 1937, in: Maria Jawlensky, Lucia Pieroni-Jawlensky and Angelica Jawlensky, Alexej von Jawlensky, Catalogue Raisonné of the Oil Paintings, 1914–1933, vol. II, London 1992, p. 12.