Ketterer Kunst GmbH & Co. KG
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- The impressive work “Girl with Braid” will be called up in the evening sale on June 9th with an estimated price of EUR 3.5 – 4.5 million.
- Key work of expressionism: “Girl with braid” stands at the beginning of Jawlensky’s expressionist creative phase.
- Groundbreaking for his work: the human portrait head is Jawlensky’s most important subject; with him he developed his new, expressive style before the First World War.
- Incomparable in color and composition: A fascinating solitaire in Jawlensky’s oeuvre.
- Masterpiece of museum quality: Comparable quality is extremely rare on the international auction market.
- Outstanding provenance: From the collection of the Jawlensky expert and first author of the catalog raisonné Clemens Weiler, Wiesbaden.
On June 9, 2023, an expressionist masterpiece by Alexej von Jawlensky will come onto the art auction market: With “Girl with Braid” from 1910, he creates a unique key work. With the mysterious stylization of the female head and the multicolored face that emancipates itself from any natural model, Jawlensky creates a magnificent portrait here that opens the way to those “strong and powerful heads” (Clemens Weiler) that he painted in 1912. To this day, these works by Jawlensky are among his most important and sought-after works. “Girl with Braid” was created in Jawlensky’s decisive phase of his work, when he invented German Expressionism together with his partner Marianne von Werefkin and the artist couple Gabriele Münter and Wassily Kandinsky in Murnau,” explains the Jawlensky expert dr Roman Zieglgansberger, Curator for classical modern art at the Kunstmuseum Wiesbaden.
“The spirited painting is an icon of modernism,” is glad Nicola Countess Keglevich, Senior Director at Ketterer Kunst. “The dawn of modernity began in December 1909 with the first exhibition of the “New Artists’ Association Munich” in the Thannhauser Gallery with works by Jawlensky, Werefkin, Kandinsky and Münter. The deviating power of color and the detachment from nature was heavily criticized as painting gone wild. Today, this progressive artistic path, detached from all conventions, is considered one of the most important chapters in art history of the 20th century.”
This masterpiece from a Swiss private collection will be called up in the evening sale on June 9th in Munich with an estimated price of EUR 3.5 – 4.5 million.
“The painterly quality of “Girl with Braid” is simply breathtaking,” says dr Roman Ziegglängsberger, who has already published numerous books and essays on Jawlensky and Werefkin. “It is therefore not surprising that the work was formerly in the Clemens Weiler Collection. Weiler was the first Jawlensky biographer and expert after World War II. After all, it was such works that made art subjective and emotional at the beginning of the 20th century and in the run-up to the Blaue Reiter.”
“Girl with braid” – an intoxicatingly unleashed, expressionistic masterpiece.
The coloristic and compositional mastery and spontaneity in combination with the exciting perspective and the zoom-focused image section characterizes “Girl with Braid” in a special way. The skin is rendered in bright green with strong accents of blue, dark green, turquoise and pink-orange. The color is applied in moving swipes to the unprimed, sometimes boldly left painting surface. In addition to the face with the large, almond-shaped eyes, Jawlensky also confidently used the elongated surfaces of the supported forearms and hands for his play of colors, which was completely freed from the color specifications of nature. This expressive spectacle is framed by the deep black of the hair and the vibrant dark blue of the dress in front of the deep, blazing crimson background applied to the painting ground with an equally lively stroke.
The art-historical significance of “Girl with Braids” in Jawlensky’s oeuvre is also reflected in his extensive exhibition history. It was exhibited at the legendary Jawlensky exhibition on the occasion of the artist’s 100th birthday in the Wiesbaden Museum and in the Lenbachhaus in Munich.
“We are very pleased that an international collector has placed his trust in our house.” so Robert Ketterer, auctioneer and owner of Ketterer Kunst. “This consignment proves the recognition of Ketterer Kunst as an international marketplace for museum works of German Expressionism. Thanks to our network and our marketing strategy, we are able to address collectors extensively worldwide.” Ketterer Kunst is the only auction house that sends a printed English-language evening sale catalog worldwide.
The work will be presented for the first time at the preview, which begins next Saturday in Cologne. After that it can be seen in Frankfurt, Hamburg, Berlin and Munich before the auction.
Other highlights of the Evening Sale auction June 9, 2023
In addition to Alexej von Jawlensky, the auction offers other exciting works, the MODERN ART knows zB Max Pechsteins “The Resting Woman” from 1911 (estimate EUR 1.2 – 1.8 million), Otto Muellers “Girl on the Sofa” from 1914 (estimate EUR 650,000 – 850,000), Franz frameworks “Green Horse” from 1912 (estimate EUR 600,000 – 800,000) as well as top-class works by Max Dear manstay SchieleGustav KlimtOtto DixEmil NoldeErich heckel and Karl Schmidt-Rottluff.
Around CONTEMPORARY ART bribe Gerhard, among others judges “Teyde landscape” from 1971 (estimate EUR 800,000 – 1,200,000), Martin Kippenbergers “Gruga-Bad 1982” (estimate: EUR 300,000 – 500,000), Ernst Wilhelm Nice “Motion” from 1962 (estimate: 400,000 – 600,000), “BLOB#3” by New York artist Steven Parrino from 1994 (estimate EUR 100,000 – 150,000) as well as first-class works by Konrad, among others KlapheckGeorge CondoStanley WhitneySean ScullyLouis SalterKarin KneffelKatharina Grosse and Cindy Sherman.
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München 4. – 9. June 2023
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