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Details

Arshile Gorky (1904-1948)
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signed 'A. Gorky' (lower right)
graphite and colored pencil on paper
20 x 26 in. (50.8 x 66 cm.)
Executed circa 1944.

Provenance

Julien Levy, New York
Richard Feigan Gallery, Chicago
Private collection, Chicago, 1969
Washburn Gallery, New York
Private collection, New York
David Tunkl Fine Art, Los Angeles
Private collection, Medina, Washington
By descent from the above to the present owner

Literature

J. Levy, Arshile Gorky, New York, 1966, pl. 149 (illustrated as Drawing).
W. Seitz, Abstract Expressionist Painting in America: An Interpretation Based on the Works and Thought of Six Key Figures, Washington D.C., 1955.

Exhibited

Chicago, Richard Feigan Gallery, Arshile Gorky: Drawings from the Julien Levy Collection, March-April 1969, no. 14.
New York, M. Knoedler & Co., Gorky: Drawings, November-December 1969, p. 36, no. 72 (illustrated as Drawing).
New York, Washburn Gallery, Arshile Gorky, In Memory, November 1978.
Seattle, Meyerson & Nowinski Art Associates, Arshile Gorky: Two Decades, February–April 1997.

Further Details

This work is recorded in the Arshile Gorky Foundation Archives under number D1070.

Lot Essay

“The swelling, rounded forms found in these late drawings, which abruptly collapse into curving and folded planes suggestive of leaves, petals, or grass, have convinced many commentators that Gorky’s imagery must have a basis in natural forms” (J. Lee, Arshile Gorky: The Power of Drawing, New York, 2003, p. 63).

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