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D1281
(Untitled)
1946
Graphite pencil, ink, and crayon on paper
19 1/8 x 24 13/16 in. (48.6 x 63 cm)
Recto, in pencil, lower left: A Gorky / 46
Verso not seen
Verso not seen
Provenance
Exhibitions
1947a New York possibly
Julien Levy Gallery, New York, Arshile Gorky: Colored Drawings, February 18–25, 1947.Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, Arshile Gorky Memorial Exhibition, January 5–February 18, 1951, no. 87, ill. in b/w, p. 29; p. 48, as "Drawing". Traveled to: Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, March 4–April 22, 1951; San Francisco Museum of Art, California, May 9–July 9, 1951.
Museum of Modern Art, New York, International Council (organizer), Mostra di Disegni Americani Moderni, 1961–62, as "Drawing," [Spoleto: no. 21; Paris: no. 21; London: no. 20; Bonn: no. 22]. Traveled to: Palazzo Ancaiani, Spoleto, Italy, June 16–July 16, 1961 (as Mostra di Disegni Americani Moderni); 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); [Unknown venue], Israel, [dates unknown].
Museum of Modern Art, New York, Arshile Gorky, 1904–1948, December 19, 1962–February 12, 1963. (Exhibition catalogue: Seitz 1962), no. 88, p. 55, as "Drawing". Traveled to: Washington Gallery of Modern Art, D.C., March 12–April 14, 1963.
Marisa del Re Gallery, New York, Selected Works on Paper, March 2–April 3, 1982, as "Untitled".
Museum of Fine Arts, Houston (organizer), Pinacothèque Nationale, Athens, Greece, Modern American Paintings, September 20–November 7, 1982, no. 28, as "Untitled".
Janie C. Lee Gallery, Houston, Master Drawings: 1928–1984, March–April 1984, no. 3, ill. in color, as "Untitled".
Newport Harbor Art Museum, Newport Beach, California, The Interpretive Link: Abstract Surrealism into Abstract Expressionism: Works on Paper, 1938–1948, July 16–September 14, 1986, no. 15, ill. in b/w, p. 72, as "Untitled". Traveled to: Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, November 13, 1986–January 21, 1987; Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, February 21–April 19, 1987.
Sala de Exposiciones de la Fundación Caja de Pensiones, Madrid, Arshile Gorky, 1904–1948, October 17–December 23, 1989, no. 85, ill. in color, p. 150, as "Untitled". Traveled to: Whitechapel Art Gallery, London, January 19–March 25, 1990.
Literature
Loftus, John. "Arshile Gorky: A Monograph." M.A. Thesis, Columbia University, New York, 1952, pl. XXIX, ill. in b/w, as "Drawing".
Reiff, Robert F. "A Stylistic Analysis of Arshile Gorky's Art from 1943–1948." Ph.D. diss., Columbia University, New York, 1961, fig. 35, ill. in b/w, p. 313, as "Drawing".
Levy, Julien. Arshile Gorky. New York: Harry N. Abrams, Inc., 1966. Monograph, pl. 153, ill. in b/w, p. 177, as "Drawing".
Seitz, William C. Abstract Expressionist Painting in America. Cambridge, MA and London: Harvard University Press for the National Gallery of Art, 1983, fig. 77, ill. in b/w, as "Untitled".
Barbara Mathes Gallery. Selections: Fall 1989. New York: Barbara Mathes Gallery, 1989, no. 22, ill. in color, as "Untitled".
Notes
Commentary
Based on the fact that this drawing was known to have been in the inventory of the Julien Levy Gallery, it is probable, though unconfirmed, that it was included in the gallery's exhibition Arshile Gorky: Colored Drawings which opened in mid-February 1947.
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