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''Medusa'' (French - ''La Méduse'') or ''Head of a Woman "Medusa", Light and Shadow'' (''Tête de femme « Méduse », Lumière et Ombre'') is a 1923
''Medusa'' (French - ''La Méduse'') or ''Head of a Woman "Medusa", Light and Shadow'' (''Tête de femme « Méduse », Lumière et Ombre'') is a 1923 Expressionist
Expressionism is a modernist movement, initially in poetry and painting, originating in Northern Europe around the beginning of the 20th century. Its typical trait is to present the world solely from a subjective perspective, distorting it rad ...
painting by Russian painter Alexej von Jawlensky
Alexej Georgewitsch von Jawlensky (russian: Алексе́й Гео́ргиевич Явле́нский, translit=Alekséy Geórgiyevich Yavlénskiy) (13 March 1864 – 15 March 1941), surname also spelt as Yavlensky, was a Russian expressioni ...
. It is held in the Musée des Beaux-Arts de Lyon, which acquired it in 1936. It is an work by the artist from the time when he began to focus on painting the human figure, in 1917.
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