LOT DETAILS

Materials:

oil on cardboard

Measurements:

11.50 in. (29.20 cm.) (height) by 7.87 in. (20.00 cm.) (width)

Markings:

signed and dated 'A. Gorky 27' (lower right)

Exhibited:

University Art Museum, The University of Texas at Austin; San Francisco Museum of Art; Purchase, Neuberger Museum; Utica, Museum of Art, Munson-Williams Proctor Institute, Arshile Gorky: Drawings to Paintings, October 1975-May 1976 (illustrated). Washington, D.C., The Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Smithsonian Institution, Arshile Gorky: The Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden Collection, October-November 1979, no. 2, p. 19 (illustrated). New York, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum; Dallas Museum of Fine Arts, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Arshile Gorky: A Retrospective, April 1981-February 1982, no. 62 (illustrated).

Literature:

J.M. Jordan & R. Goldwater, The Paintings of Arshile Gorky: A Critical Catalogue, New York, 1982, pp. 33, 195, no. 70 (illustrated). J. Levy, Arshile Gorky, New York, 1966, p. 43 (illustrated).

Provenance:

Acquired from the artist. Joseph H. Hirshhorn, 1942. Gifted to the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden from the above, 1966.