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Provenance
Exhibitions
Pasadena Art Museum, California, Paintings and Drawings by Arshile Gorky, January 5–February 2, 1958.
Laguna Beach Art Association, California, Hans Burkhardt, Arshile Gorky, Young Printmakers, April 2–May 1, 1966, ill. in b/w, as "Self-Portrait," dated 1928.
University Art Museum, University of Texas at Austin, Arshile Gorky: Drawings to Paintings, October 12–November 23, 1975. (Exhibition catalogue: University of Texas at Austin 1975), p. 103, as "Self Portrait," dated 1927–28. Traveled to: San Francisco Museum of Art, December 4, 1975–January 12, 1976; Neuberger Museum, Purchase College, State University of New York, February 10–March 14, 1976; Munson-Williams-Proctor Arts Institute, Utica, New York, April 4–May 9, 1976.
Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, Arshile Gorky 1904–1948: A Retrospective, April 24–July 19, 1981, no. 9, ill. in b/w, p. 69, as "Self-Portrait," dated c. 1928–31. Traveled to: Dallas Museum of Fine Arts, September 12–November 6, 1981; Los Angeles County Museum of Art, December 3, 1981–February 28, 1982.
Literature
Barlow, Jarvis. "Paintings by Arshile Gorky at Art Museum." Independent, Star-News (Pasadena, CA), January 12, 1958, ill. in b/w, p. 10, as "Self-Portrait".
Langsner, Jules. "Gorky: Myth vs. Reality." Artnews (New York) 56 (February 1958), ill. in b/w, p. 47, as "Self-Portrait".
J.R. [Jon Reuschel]. "Arshile Gorky, Art Center in La Jolla." Artforum (San Francisco) 1, no. 11 (May 1963), discussed p. 47, as "Self-portrait 1927-28".
C.S.S. [Cathy S. Silver]. "Gorky, When the Going Was Rough." Artnews (New York) 62, no. 2 (April 1963), discussed p. 61, as "a penetratingly Cézannesque self-portrait in oil, 1926–27".
Herrera, Hayden. "The Artist's Self Image: Self Portraits by Arshile Gorky." In Arshile Gorky: Drawings to Paintings. Austin: University of Texas at Austin, 1975. Exhibition catalogue, fig. 3, ill. in b/w, p. 45, as "Self-Portrait," dated c. 1928–31.
Herrera, Hayden. "Gorky's Self Portraits: The Artist by Himself." Art in America (New York) 64 (March–April 1976), fig. 4, ill. in b/w, p. 58, as "Self-Portrait".
Waldman, Diane. "Arshile Gorky: Poet in Paint." In Arshile Gorky 1904–1948: A Retrospective. New York: Harry N. Abrams, Inc. in collaboration with The Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation, 1981. Exhibition catalogue, discussed p. 20, as "Self-Portrait".
Karp, Diane. "Arshile Gorky: The Language of Art." Ph.D. diss., University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, 1982, fig. 5, ill. in b/w, p. 173, as "Self Portrait".
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. 20–22, as "Self Portrait".
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. 10, ill. in b/w, pp. 135–36, as "Self Portrait".
Corrin, Lisa. "Toward Armenia: Notes of a Journey." In Arshile Gorky: 1904–1948. London: Whitechapel Art Gallery, 1990. Exhibition catalogue, ill. in b/w, p. 167, as "Self Portrait".
Ades, Dawn. Surrealist Art: The Lindy and Edwin Bergman Collection at the Art Institute of Chicago. Margherita Andreotti, ed. Chicago and New York: Art Institute of Chicago and Thames and Hudson, 1997, fig. 72, ill. in color, p. 140, as "Self-Portrait".
Venn, Beth and Adam D. Weinberg. Frames of Reference: Looking at American Art, 1900–1950: Works from the Whitney Museum of American Art. New York and Berkeley: Whitney Museum of American Art and University of California Press, 1999, ill. in color, p. 77, as "Self-Portrait".
Herrera, Hayden. Arshile Gorky: His Life and Work. New York: Farrar, Straus, and Giroux, 2003, fig. 68, ill. in b/w, as "Self-Portrait".
Dervaux, Isabelle. "Arshile Gorky (1904–1948)." In Cézanne and American Modernism. New Haven: Yale University Press in association with the Montclair Art Museum and The Baltimore Museum of Art, 2009. Exhibition catalogue, fig. 1, ill. in color, p. 208, as "Self-Portrait".
Notes
After works by other artists: Paul Cezanne
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