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Untitled (Study for Mural)
Details
Arshile Gorky (1904-1948)
Untitled (Study for Mural)
ink on paper
9½ x 29 in. (24.1 x 73.7 cm.)
Executed circa 1933-1934.
Untitled (Study for Mural)
ink on paper
9½ x 29 in. (24.1 x 73.7 cm.)
Executed circa 1933-1934.
Provenance
The Estate of Arshile Gorky, New York
Gagosian Gallery, New York
Acquired from the above by the present owner
Gagosian Gallery, New York
Acquired from the above by the present owner
Exhibited
New York, Museum of Modern Art, Drawings by Arshile Gorky, December 1962-February 1963, no. 8 (illustrated).
New York, Knoedler & Co., Inc., Gorky Drawings, 1969, no. 20, p. 23 (illustrated).
Newark Museum; University of Rochester, Memorial Art Gallery and Washington, D.C., Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Murals without Walls: Arshile Gorky's Aviation Murals Rediscovered, November 1978-March 1979, no. 8, p. 21 (illustrated).
New York, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum; Dallas, Museum of Fine Arts and Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Arshile Gorky 1904-1948: A Retrospective, 1981, no. 50 (illustrated).
Lausanne, Musée Cantonal des Beaux-Arts; Vienna, Graphische Sammlung Albertina; Marseille, Musée Cantini; St. Etienne, Musee d'art Moderne; Frankfurter Kunstverein and Bremen, Kunsthalle, Arshile Gorky: Oeuvres sur papier, 1929-1947, 1990, p. 60, no. 15 (illustrated).
Venice, Peggy Guggenheim Collection; Lisbon Fundacion Calouste Gulbenkian, Arshile Gorky: Works on Paper, 1992, p. 53, no. 8 (illustrated).
Princeton University, The Art Museum; Milwaukee Art Museum; Baltimore Museum of Art and New York, Stephen Mazoh & Co., Arshile Gorky and the Genesis of Abstraction: Drawings from the Early 1930's, October 1994-January 1996, p. 79, no. 30 (illustrated; also illustrated on the cover).
New York, Gagosian Gallery, Arshile Gorky: Paintings and Drawings, 1929-1942, October 1998-January 1999, p. 65, no. 14 (illustrated).
New York, Whitney Museum of American Art and Houston, Menil Collection, Arshile Gorky: A Drawing Retrospective, November 2003-May 2004 (illustrated in color).
New York, Knoedler & Co., Inc., Gorky Drawings, 1969, no. 20, p. 23 (illustrated).
Newark Museum; University of Rochester, Memorial Art Gallery and Washington, D.C., Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Murals without Walls: Arshile Gorky's Aviation Murals Rediscovered, November 1978-March 1979, no. 8, p. 21 (illustrated).
New York, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum; Dallas, Museum of Fine Arts and Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Arshile Gorky 1904-1948: A Retrospective, 1981, no. 50 (illustrated).
Lausanne, Musée Cantonal des Beaux-Arts; Vienna, Graphische Sammlung Albertina; Marseille, Musée Cantini; St. Etienne, Musee d'art Moderne; Frankfurter Kunstverein and Bremen, Kunsthalle, Arshile Gorky: Oeuvres sur papier, 1929-1947, 1990, p. 60, no. 15 (illustrated).
Venice, Peggy Guggenheim Collection; Lisbon Fundacion Calouste Gulbenkian, Arshile Gorky: Works on Paper, 1992, p. 53, no. 8 (illustrated).
Princeton University, The Art Museum; Milwaukee Art Museum; Baltimore Museum of Art and New York, Stephen Mazoh & Co., Arshile Gorky and the Genesis of Abstraction: Drawings from the Early 1930's, October 1994-January 1996, p. 79, no. 30 (illustrated; also illustrated on the cover).
New York, Gagosian Gallery, Arshile Gorky: Paintings and Drawings, 1929-1942, October 1998-January 1999, p. 65, no. 14 (illustrated).
New York, Whitney Museum of American Art and Houston, Menil Collection, Arshile Gorky: A Drawing Retrospective, November 2003-May 2004 (illustrated in color).
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