Egyptian
- Date
- 1913
- Material
- Oil on artist board
- Classification
- Paintings
- Collection
- Modern and Contemporary Art
- Current Location
- Not on view
- Dimensions
- 21 1/2 x 19 5/8 in. (54.6 x 49.8 cm)
framed: 29 9/16 x 27 3/4 x 3 3/8 in. (75.1 x 70.5 x 8.6 cm) - Credit Line
- Bequest of Morton D. May
- Rights
- Public Domain
- Object Number
- 897:1983
NOTES
Alexei Jawlensky embellished this painting of a woman’s face with a gold earring, a pink flower, and dark veil in her hair. These details had exotic associations for early-20th-century Northern Europeans. A touch of white on the forehead and contrasting patches of burgundy and green suggest highlights and shadows. Around 1913, Jawlensky made many such paintings of abstracted human faces, characterized by loose brushwork, simplified shapes, and a non-naturalistic color palette. These were not portraits of specific individuals, but generalized types.
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