Untitled (Study for Betrothal)

Details

Arshile Gorky (1904-1948)
Untitled (Study for Betrothal)
signed and dated 'a. Gorky 46' (lower right)
watercolor, pastel and crayon on paper
8 1/8 x 10 7/8 in. (21.6 x 27.6 cm.)
Executed in 1946.

Provenance

Julien Levy, New York
Margarita Vidal Socas, New York
C & M Arts, New York
Acquired from the above by the present owner

Exhibited

New York, Whitney Museum of American Art; New Haven, Yale University Art Gallery and Los Angeles Museum of Contemporary Art, Collections in Context: Gorky's Betrothals, October 1993-June 1994 (illustrated in color).

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Lot Essay

This work has been requested to be included in the forthcoming retrospective of the work of Arshile Gorky, organized by the Philadelphia Museum of Art in 2009. The exhibition will travel to the Tate Modern, London and the Los Angeles County Museum of Art in 2010.

Untitled (Study for Betrothal)

Lot Essay

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