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A figure with a mass of dark curled hair and heavily made-up features – arched brows, blackened eyes, rouged cheeks and scarlet lips – looks out from a thick vermilion coat against a mottled turquoise ground. A red flower is pinned at the chest, with faint scratches in the paint surface on the coat below it. Jawlensky painted the dancer Alexander Sakharov, known for performing in elaborate stage makeup, in 1909.
Alexej von Jawlensky (1864–1941) was a Russian-born painter central to German Expressionism. A career army officer, he studied painting in St Petersburg from 1889 while still in service, gaining admission to the circle of Ilya Repin, and in 1896 he settled in Munich, where he worked alongside Marianne von Werefkin and in 1909 co-founded the Neue Künstlervereinigung München with Wassily Kandinsky. In Wiesbaden after the First World War he reduced the human face to broad, glowing planes of colour in his Mystical Heads and Saviour’s Faces, and in his last years to the small Meditations, painted as arthritis stiffened his hands. His work is held by the Museum Wiesbaden, the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum and the Norton Simon Museum.
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