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Provenance
The artist
Julien Levy Gallery, New York (December 21, 1944)
Julien Levy, Bridgewater, Connecticut (1949)
Estate of Julien Levy (1981)
[Sotheby Parke Bernet Inc., New York, Paintings, Drawings, and Sculpture from the Julien Levy Collection, November 4, 1981, lot 25]
Denise and Andrew Saul, New York (November 4, 1981)
[Ben Heller Inc., New York (January 1989)]
Private collection, Boston (January 1989)
[Christie's, New York, Post-War and Contemporary Art: Evening Sale, May 13, 2015, lot 29B; bought in]
[Christie's, New York, Post-War & Contemporary Art Day Sale, July 10, 2020, lot 196; bought in]
[Christie's, New York, Private Sale]
Private collection, New York (July 14, 2020)
Exhibitions
1945a New York possibly
Julien Levy Gallery, New York, Arshile Gorky, March 6–31, 1945. (Exhibition brochure: Breton 1945b).1951a New York
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, Arshile Gorky Memorial Exhibition, January 5–February 18, 1951, no. 81, p. 48, as "Study for Good Afternoon, Mrs. Lincoln". Traveled to: Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, March 4–April 22, 1951; San Francisco Museum of Art, California, May 9–July 9, 1951.1961–62 IC–MoMA
Museum of Modern Art, New York, International Council (organizer), Mostra di Disegni Americani Moderni, 1961–62, as "Good Afternoon, Mrs. Lincoln," [Spoleto: no. 20; Jerusalem: no. 20; Paris: no. 20; London: no. 19; Bonn: no. 21]. Traveled to: Palazzo Ancaiani, Spoleto, Italy, June 16–July 16, 1961 (as Mostra di Disegni Americani Moderni); Bezalel National Museum, Jerusalem, August 21–October 3, 1961 (as Modern American Drawings); Centre Culturel Américain, Paris, June 6–July 10, 1962 (as Dessins Américains Contemporains); USIS Gallery, American Embassy, London, July 16–August 11, 1962 (as Contemporary American Drawings); Städtische Kunstsammlungen, Bonn, Germany, August 28–September 30, 1962 (as Amerikanische Zeichnungen: 1942–1961).1962–63b New York
Museum of Modern Art, New York, Arshile Gorky, 1904–1948, December 19, 1962–February 12, 1963. (Exhibition catalogue: Seitz 1962), no. 65, ill. in b/w, p. 33; p. 54, as "Study for Good Afternoon, Mrs. Lincoln". Traveled to: Washington Gallery of Modern Art, D.C., March 12–April 14, 1963.1964 New Haven
Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, Connecticut, Max Ernst and Arshile Gorky from the Collection of Julien Levy, March 19–May 3, 1964, no. 24, ill. in b/w, as "Study for Good Afternoon, Mrs. Lincoln".1975 Cambridge
Hayden Gallery, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Drawings by Five Abstract Expressionist Painters: Arshile Gorky, Willem de Kooning, Jackson Pollock, Franz Kline, Philip Guston, February 21–March 26, 1975, no. 12, as "Study for Good Afternoon, Mrs. Lincoln".1981 Roslyn Harbor
Nassau County Museum of Fine Art, Roslyn Harbor, New York, The Abstract Expressionists and their Precursors, January 17–March 22, 1981, no. 26, ill. in b/w, as "Study for Good Afternoon, Mrs. Lincoln".1981–82 New York
Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, Arshile Gorky 1904–1948: A Retrospective, April 24–July 19, 1981, no. 149a, as "Study for Good Afternoon, Mrs. Lincoln," [not in catalogue; exhibited in New York only]. Traveled to: Dallas Museum of Fine Arts, September 12–November 6, 1981; Los Angeles County Museum of Art, December 3, 1981–February 28, 1982.2003–04b New York
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, Arshile Gorky: A Retrospective of Drawings, November 20, 2003–February 15, 2004, no. 76, ill. in color, p. 143; p. 244, as "Good Afternoon, Mrs. Lincoln". Traveled to: Menil Collection, Houston, March 5–May 9, 2004.Literature
Schwabacher 1957
Schwabacher, Ethel. Arshile Gorky. Introduction by Meyer Schapiro. New York: The Macmillan Company for the Whitney Museum of American Art, 1957. Monograph, fig. 42, ill. in b/w, p. 93, as "Good Afternoon Mrs. Lincoln".Levy 1966
Levy, Julien. Arshile Gorky. New York: Harry N. Abrams, Inc., 1966. Monograph, no. 116, ill. in color, p. 140, as "Study for Good Afternoon, Mrs. Lincoln".Rand 1981
Rand, Harry. Arshile Gorky: The Implication of Symbols. Montclair, NJ: Allanheld, Osmun & Co. Publishers Inc., and London: George Prior Associated Publishers Ltd., 1981. Monograph, fig. 6–10, ill. in b/w, p. 98, as "Good Afternoon, Mrs. Lincoln".Jordan 1982b
Jordan, Jim M. "Catalogue Raisonné of Paintings." In The Paintings of Arshile Gorky: A Critical Catalogue, by Jim M. Jordan and Robert Goldwater. New York and London: New York University Press, 1982, discussed p. 442, fn. 1, as "Good Afternoon, Mrs. Lincoln," as a "drawing of the same name [Good Afternoon Mrs. Lincoln] which was done directly from the landscape".Seitz 1983
Seitz, William C. Abstract Expressionist Painting in America. Cambridge, MA and London: Harvard University Press for the National Gallery of Art, 1983, fig. 72, ill. in b/w, as "Study for Good Afternoon, Mrs. Lincoln".Rand 1991
Rand, Harry. Arshile Gorky: The Implication of Symbols. Rev. ed. Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 1991. Monograph, fig. 6–10, ill. in b/w, p. 110, as "Good Afternoon, Mrs. Lincoln".Beredjiklian 2007
Beredjiklian, Alexandre. Arshile Gorky: sept thèmes majeurs. Suresnes, France: Alphamédian & Johanet; Lisbon: Fondation Calouste Gulbenkian, 2007. Monograph, discussed pp. 52, 65, as "Bon après-midi, Mme Lincoln".Notes
Watermark / Stamp: Strathmore
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