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Provenance
The artist
Stergis M. Stergis, New York, gift of the artist (1928)
Maudie Pauline Stergis, Brentwood, California, by descent (c.1987)
Stephani [Stergis] and Stuart Denker, Los Osos / San Luis Obispo, California, by descent (c. 2001)
Literature
Grand Central 1926
Grand Central School of Art Catalogue (1926–1927 season). New York: Marguerite Tuttle, Inc, 1926, ill. in b/w, p. 19, as "Painted by Arshele Gorky".Jordan 1982a
Jordan, Jim M. "The Paintings of Arshile Gorky: New Discoveries, New Sources, and Chronology." 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 pp. 19–20, as "Nudes".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, no. 8, ill. in b/w, p. 133, as "Nude (After Rodin?)".Herrera 2003
Herrera, Hayden. Arshile Gorky: His Life and Work. New York: Farrar, Straus, and Giroux, 2003, fig. 66, ill. in b/w, as "Nude (After Rodin)".Taylor 2009b
Taylor, Michael R. "Rethinking Arshile Gorky." In Arshile Gorky: A Retrospective, edited by Michael R. Taylor. Philadelphia: Philadelphia Museum of Art, 2009. Exhibition catalogue, fig. 3, ill. in color, p. 21, as "After Rodin".Notes
Auguste Rodin, Pygmalion and Galatea, modeled 1889, carved c. 1908–09, marble, overall: 38 1/4 × 35 × 30 in. Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York; Gift of Thomas F. Ryan, in memory of William M. Laffan, 1910 (10.31).
William McKillop photograph of Gorky's painting with the artist's inscription. AGF Archives.
After works by other artists: Auguste Rodin
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