LOT DETAILS

Materials:

oil on canvas

Measurements:

10.08 in. (25.60 cm.) (height) by 8.11 in. (20.60 cm.) (width)

Markings:

signed and dated XXII

Exhibited:

New York, Museum of Modern Art; Washington D.C., Gallery of Modern Art, Arshile Gorky: Paintings, Drawings, Studies, December 1962 - April 1963, no. 9 (as ca. 1931). London, Tate Gallery; Brussels, Palais des Beaux-Arts; Rotterdam, Museum Boymans-van Beuningen, Arshile Gorky: Paintings and Drawings, April - August 1965, no. 15 (as 1940). Washington, D.C., Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Arshile Gorky, October - November 1979, no. 5, p. 21, illustrated. Jerusalem, Israel Museum; Humlebaek, Louisiana Museum; Düsseldorf, Kunsthalle; London, Whitechapel Gallery, Arshile Gorky, October 1987 - June 1988. New York, Gagosian Gallery, Arshile Gorky: Portraits, March - April 2002, p. 65, illustrated

Literature:

Julien Levy, Arshile Gorky, New York, 1966, pl. 27, illustrated (as ca. 1931). Jim M. Jordan and Robert Goldwater, The Paintings of Arshile Gorky: A Critical Catalogue, New York, 1982, no. 177, p. 323, illustrated

Provenance:

Joseph H. Hirschhorn, New York (acquired directly from the artist). Acquired by the present owner from the above in 1966