"Portrait of a Girl" / "Farmhouse Garden", c. 1910 / c. 1907

Jawlensky's "Portrait of a Girl" belongs to a group of masterpieces that were all created in the period from 1910 and fully represent Jawlensky's individual, unique style, which was to reach its peak in the years up to 1912.
The depicted girl confronts the viewer with the sheer intensity of her gaze and the beauty of her face, which unfolds a fascinating and haunting effect. Jawlensky's strongest portraits have a pyramidal structure as a half-figure that we also find here: the upper body takes up almost half of the paintings surface and virtually forms the base for the expressive head, which he cut above at the edge. Jawlensky delimits the strong colours of the composition, the green-blue background, the burgundy dress and the petrol-coloured pinafore with black contours and gives the composition an incredible clarity.