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Materials:

oil on canvas

Size Notes:

91.8 x 122.2 cm

Description:

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Markings:

signed for sale. This will usually be where it has guaranteed to the Seller that whatever the outcome of the auction

Exhibited:

San Francisco Museum of Art, Loan Exhibition of Arshile Gorky, August 1941., New York, Museum of Modern Art; Dallas Museum of Fine Arts; St. Paul Gallery and School of Art; Manitoba, Winnipeg Art Gallery; Toledo Museum of Art; Louisville, J.B. Speed Art Museum and Carbondale, Southern Illinois University, Abstract Painting and Sculpture in America, January 1951-April 1952, p. 126 (illustrated)., Hartford, The Wadsworth Atheneum, Continuity and Change: Forty-Five American Abstract Painters and Sculptors, April-May 1962, p. 14, no. 28., New York, Museum of Modern Art and The Washington Gallery of Modern Art, Arshile Gorky: Paintings, Drawings, Studies, December 1962-April 1963, p. 25, no. 37 (illustrated)., University of Texas at Austin, University Art Museum; San Francisco Museum of Art; Purchase, Neuberger Museum at the State University of New York and Utica, Munson-Williams-Proctor Institute, Arshile Gorky: Drawings to Paintings, October 1975-May 1976.

Literature:

J. Levy, Arshile Gorky, New York, 1966, pl. 71 (illustrated)., I. Sandler, The Triumph of American Painting: A History of Abstract Expressionism, New York, 1970, p. 82 (illustrated)., J.M. Jordan and R. Goldwater, The Paintings of Arshile Gorky: A Critical Catalogue, New York, 1982, pp. 319-320, no. 174 (illustrated)., H. Herrera, Arshile Gorky: His Life and Work, New York, 2003, fig. 21 (illustrated).

Provenance:

Mr. and Mrs. I. Donald Grossman, New York, acquired directly from the artist, circa 1937, Luhring Augustine Gallery, New York, Private collection, 1996, L&M Arts, New York, Acquired from the above by the present owner, 2007