LOT DETAILS

Materials:

oil on canvas

Measurements:

27.99 in. (71.10 cm.) (height) by 35.98 in. (91.40 cm.) (width)

Exhibited:

New York, Whitney Museum of American Art; Minneapolis, Walker Art Center and San Francisco Museum of Art, Arshile Gorky Memorial Exhibition, January-July 1951, no. 9. New York, Avant-Garde Gallery, Gorky, Lanskoy, Gen Paul: Early Paintings, April-May 1958, n.p. (illustrated). New York, Owen Gallery, American Paintings, April-June 2002, n.p. (illustrated on the back cover).

Literature:

E. Schwabacher, Arshile Gorky, New York, 1957, p. 40, no. 9 (illustrated). M. Fitzgerald, "Arshile Gorky's The Limit," ARTS Magazine, vol. 54, March 1980, p. 112, fig. 5 (illustrated). Arshile Gorky 1904-1948: A Retrospective, exh. cat., New York, The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, 1981, p. 206, no. 79 (illustrated). J. M. Jordan and R. Goldwater, The Paintings of Arshile Gorky: A Critical Catalogue, New York and London, 1982, p. 206, no. 79 (illustrated). W.C. Seitz, Abstract Expressionist Painting in America, Cambridge and London, 1983, no. 49 (illustrated). H. Herrera, Arshile Gorky: His Life and Work, New York, 2003, fig. 12 (illustrated). A. Beredjiklian, Arshile Gorky: Sept Thèmes Majeurs, Suresnes, 2007, pp. 24 and 33-35.

Provenance:

Bernard Davis, Philadelphia, acquired directly from the artist His sale; Parke-Bernet Galleries Inc., New York, 6 May 1959, lot 100 Eugene Bernald, New York Owen Gallery, New York Acquired from the above by the present owner, 2002