Der gelbe Topf. Um 1909.
Oil on paper, laminated on thin wood fiber panel.
Jawlensky/Pieroni-Jawlensky 293. Monogrammed in lower right. Inscribed by Clemens Weiler "Alexej Jawlensky / Der gelbe Topf, 1908 / (Weiler Nr. 719)" on an old label on verso. 52.5 x 58 cm (20.6 x 22.8 in).

Further still lifes from Jawlensky's early expressive period of creation are in possession of, among others, the Städtische Galerie im Lehnbachhaus, Munich, the Wallraff-Richartz Museums, Cologne, the Museum Wiesbaden, the Museum Ludwig in Cologne and the Collection Ludwig in Aachen.

PROVENANCE: Private collection Wiesbaden (1959).
Galerie Beyeler, Basel (1963-1968).
Kunsthaus Lempertz, Cologne, December 8/9, 1965, cat. no. 418, with black and white illu. on p. 38.
Private collection USA.
Christie`s, London, June 29, 1991, cat. no. 41, with illu on p. 96.
Collection H. Dudley Wright, Geneva (consigned to following auction from the estate).
Christie`s, German and Austrian Art, London, October 13, 1994, lot 104, with illu.
Private collection Lowe Saxony.

EXHIBITION: Alexej von Jawlensky, Galerie Obere Zäune, Zürich 1964, no. 1.
Stilleben, Galerie Obere Zäune, Zürich 1965, with illu. on invitation.

LITERATURE: Clemens Weiler, Alexej Jawlensky, Cologne 1959, cat. no. 719, with illu. on p. 278.
"My friends the apples, which I love for their charming red, yellow, purple and green dress, are, on the one or the other background, no longer just apples to me. Their tones, their bright colors on a more sober background melt to form a harmony laced with dissonance. To my eye they sound like a music that reflects my moods [..] Apples, trees, faces - to me they are just signs of seeing something else in them: The color's life, captured by someone passionate, by someone in love."
Alexej von Jawlensky, letter from 1905, quote after: Clemens Weiler, Köpfe Gesichte, Meditationen, Hanau 1970, p. 121.