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Provenance
The artist
Hans Burkhardt, New York, gift of the artist (by 1937)
[Parke-Bernet Galleries Inc., New York / Los Angeles (1972)]
[Sotheby Parke Bernet Inc., New York, Modern and Contemporary Paintings, Drawings and Sculpture, May 22, 1975, lot 602A; bought in]
Hans and Thordis Burkhardt, Los Angeles
[Sotheby Parke Bernet Inc., New York, Modern Paintings, Drawings & Sculpture, June 8, 1977, lot 47]
Allan Stone Gallery, New York (June 8, 1977)
Lindy and Edwin A. Bergman, Chicago (October 5, 1977)
Art Institute of Chicago, by gift (September 12, 2018)
Exhibitions
1958 Pasadena
Pasadena Art Museum, California, Paintings and Drawings by Arshile Gorky, January 5–February 2, 1958.1966 Laguna Beach
Laguna Beach Art Association, California, Hans Burkhardt, Arshile Gorky, Young Printmakers, April 2–May 1, 1966, ill. in b/w, as "Self-Portrait," dated 1928.1975–76 Austin
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, 1976.1981–82 New York
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 1958
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 1958b
Langsner, Jules. "Gorky: Myth vs. Reality." Artnews (New York) 56 (February 1958), ill. in b/w, p. 47, as "Self-Portrait".Herrera 1975b
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 1976a
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," dated c. 1928–31.Waldman 1981
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 1982
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 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. 20–22, as "Self Portrait".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. 10, ill. in b/w, pp. 135–36, as "Self Portrait".Corrin 1990
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 1997
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 and Weinberg 1999
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 2003
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 2009
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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