Self-Portrait (Jawlensky)
1912 · Oil on cardboard · Museum Wiesbaden
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About this work
- Artist
- Alexej von Jawlensky (1864–1941)
- Year
- 1912
- Medium
- Oil on cardboard
- Original size
- 53.5 × 48.5 cm
- Collection
- Museum Wiesbaden
- Movement
- Expressionism
The artist's broad head and shoulders fill the board, the face built from slabs of pink, yellow, green and red under dark, knitted brows, with a turquoise collar and a red jacket against a churning ground of blue-green. The colours are unmixed and the strokes heavy, so the face reads almost as a mask. Jawlensky painted it in 1912 in Munich, when he was close to the circle that formed the Blue Rider, though he did not take part in its exhibitions. The intensity of the colour and the frontal stare look ahead to the heads he would paint for the rest of his career, which became more and more schematic until they were reduced to a few lines and colours. It is in the Museum Wiesbaden, in the city where he spent his last two decades.
This exhibition-poster edition shows the whole work beneath original typography set in-house. The original is in the public domain.
Where it works
A frowning face built from slabs of pink, yellow and green against churning blue-green, for a study, den or home office at 24×36 in black. A teal, red or warm white wall; it pairs with Head of a Woman.
Style, size & framing detail
- Style
- Exhibition poster of a Expressionism painting
- Era
- 20th century (1912)
- Orientation
- Portrait
- Palette
- cream & beige
- Mood
- intimate
- Rooms
- study or library, home office, living room, dining room, dorm room
- Good gift for
- housewarming, art lovers
Size. We'd hang this one at 24×36. Prints at 12×18, 16×24, 24×36 in — 12×18 for a shelf, desk or a gallery-wall grid; 16×24 above a desk, console or in a hallway; 24×36 as the statement piece above a sofa or bed.
Framing. Exhibition posters sit best in a slim black frame with no mat — the typeset margin is the mat.
Pairing. Pairs as a set of three with other famous painting prints (10% off three or more).
Details & materials
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About this design
The Madten promise
A fine-art print
The same artwork as a clean fine-art print — the image shown large with a minimal caption.
