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Provenance
Private collection, New York, by descent (1992)
Private collection (likely 1992)
Private collection (by 1998)
Private collection, New York (January 27, 1999)
Private collection (September 2024)
Exhibitions
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, Abstract Painting in America, February 12–March 22, 1935, no. 46, ill. in b/w, as "Composition No. 1," lent by J. B. Neumann, New York.
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, Arshile Gorky Memorial Exhibition, January 5–February 18, 1951, no. 5, p. 46, as "Composition," dated 1927. 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, Arshile Gorky, 1904–1948, December 19, 1962–February 12, 1963. (Exhibition catalogue: Seitz 1962), no. 6, ill. in b/w, p. 12; p. 53, as "Composition," dated c. 1928. Traveled to: Washington Gallery of Modern Art, D.C., March 12–April 14, 1963.
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 "Composition," dated 1929. 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.
Literature
Coates, Robert M. "The Art Galleries: Moderns—Past and Present." The New Yorker 26, no. 48 (January 20, 1951), discussed p. 60, as "Composition".
Loftus, John. "Arshile Gorky: A Monograph." M.A. Thesis, Columbia University, New York, 1952, pl. III, ill. in b/w, as "Composition".
Sawyer, Kenneth B. "The Grossman Collection: U.S. Collectors of Modern Art." Studio International (London) 169 (February 1965), ill. in b/w, p. 84, as "Composition".
Levy, Julien. Arshile Gorky. New York: Harry N. Abrams, Inc., 1966. Monograph, pl. 45, ill. in b/w, p. 69, as "Composition," dated c. 1928.
Weegar, Sally. "Another view of Arshile Gorky." The Austin American-Statesman (TX), November 2, 1975, discussed p. 9, as "Composition".
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. 26, 30–31, as "Composition".
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. 67, ill. in b/w, pp. 190–91, as "Composition".
Lader, Melvin P. Arshile Gorky. New York: Abbeville Press, 1985. Monograph, fig. 20, ill. in b/w, p. 27, as "Composition".
Notes
After works by other artists: Pablo Picasso
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