LOT DETAILS

Materials:

oil and graphite on canvas

Measurements:

34.13 in. (86.70 cm.) (height) by 46.14 in. (117.20 cm.) (width)

Markings:

signed and dated ‘A Gorky 45’ (lower left)

Exhibited:

New York, Julien Levy Gallery, Arshile Gorky: Paintings, April-May 1946, no. 7.New York, Museum of Modern Art, Fourteen Americans, September-December 1946, no. 38. New York, Samuel Kootz Gallery, Selected Paintings by the Late Arshile Gorky, March-April 1950.New York, Museum of Modern Art, Arshile Gorky: 1904-1948, December 1962-February 1963, no. 77.New Haven, Yale University Art Gallery, Max Ernst and Arshile Gorky from the Collection of Julien Levy, March-May 1964, no. 21 (illustrated).Los Angeles County Museum of Art, New York School, June-August 1965, no. 21 (illustrated).New York, M. Knoedler & Co., Inc., Gorky, de Kooning, Newman, June-September 1969, no. 5.Pasadena Art Museum, Painting in New York: 1944 to 1969, November 1969-January 1970, p. 70, no. 2. Hannover, Galerie Brusberg, Arshile Gorky, June-August 31, 1971, n.p. (illustrated in color).Turin, Galleria Galatea, Arshile Gorky, February-March 1972, n.p. (illustrated in color). Paris, Centre Georges Pompidou and Centre culturel Calouste Gulbenkian, Arshile Gorky: Hommage, April-June 2007, p.65 (illustrated in color).

Literature:

E. Schwabacher, Arshile Gorky, New York, 1957, p. 102.J. Levy, Arshile Gorky, New York, 1966, pl. 132.J.M. Jordan and R. Goldwater, The Paintings of Arshile Gorky: A Critical Catalogue, New York and London, 1982, pp. 462-463, no. 301 (illustrated). H. Herrera, Arshile Gorky: His Life and Work, New York, 2003, pp. 488, 507, 518 and 705.Arshile Gorky: A Retrospective, exh. cat., Philadelphia Museum of Art, 2009, p. 68, fig. 46 (illustrated in color).

Provenance:

Julien Levy, Bridgewater, acquired directly from the artistGalleria Galatea, TurinAcquired from the above by the present owner, circa 1972