Arshile Gorky Catalogue Raisonné

Catalogue Entry

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Provenance

The artist

Jeanne Reynal, San Francisco (likely June 1941)

Estate of Arshile Gorky, by gift (c. 1965)

[M. Knoedler & Co. Inc., New York (January 4, 1968)]

Estate of Arshile Gorky (by 1975)

Private collection (1975)

Exhibitions

1941 San Francisco

San Francisco Museum of Art, Arshile Gorky, August 9–24, 1941, as "Still Life".

1951a New York

Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, Arshile Gorky Memorial Exhibition, January 5–February 18, 1951, no. 6, p. 46, as "Still Life" (exhibited in New York only). Traveled to: Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, March 4–April 22, 1951; San Francisco Museum of Art, California, May 9–July 9, 1951.

1962–63b New York

Museum of Modern Art, New York, Arshile Gorky, 1904–1948, December 19, 1962–February 12, 1963. (Exhibition catalogue: Seitz 1962), no. 7, ill. in b/w, p. 13; p. 53, as "Still Life". Traveled to: Washington Gallery of Modern Art, D.C., March 12–April 14, 1963.

1965 AC–Brussels and Rotterdam

Arts Council of Great Britain, London (organizer), Arshile Gorky, Paintings and Drawings / Arshile Gorky: Schilderijen en Tekeningen, 1965, no. 5, ill. in b/w, as "Stilleven / Still life". Traveled to: Palais des Beaux-Arts, Brussels, May 22–June 27, 1965; Museum Boymans van Beuningen, Rotterdam, the Netherlands, July 24–September 5, 1965 (Museum Boymans van Beuingen 1965).

1965 AC–London

Arts Council of Great Britain, London (organizer), Tate Gallery, Arshile Gorky: Paintings and Drawings, April 2–May 2, 1965, no. 8, ill. in b/w, as "Still Life".

1989–90 Madrid

Sala de Exposiciones de la Fundación Caja de Pensiones, Madrid, Arshile Gorky, 1904–1948, October 17–December 23, 1989, no. 6, ill. in color, p. 65, as "Still Life". Traveled to: Whitechapel Art Gallery, London, January 19–March 25, 1990.

1998–99b New York

Gagosian Gallery, New York, Arshile Gorky: Paintings and Drawings, 1929–1942, October 27, 1998–January 9, 1999, ill. in color, pp. 20–21; p. 94, as "Still Life".

2019 Venice

Ca'Pesaro International Gallery of Modern Art, Venice, Italy, Arshile Gorky: 1904–1948, May 8–September 22, 2019, ill. in color, p. 83, as "Still Life".

Literature

Coates 1951

Coates, Robert M. "The Art Galleries: Moderns—Past and Present." The New Yorker 26, no. 48 (January 20, 1951), discussed p. 60, as "Still Life".

Loftus 1952

Loftus, John. "Arshile Gorky: A Monograph." M.A. Thesis, Columbia University, New York, 1952, pl. IV, ill. in b/w, as "Still Life".

Levy 1966

Levy, Julien. Arshile Gorky. New York: Harry N. Abrams, Inc., 1966. Monograph, pl. 49, ill. in b/w, p. 73, as "Still Life".

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. 34–36, 39–40, 47, as "Still Life".

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. 73, ill. in b/w, pp. 198–200, as "Still Life".

Herrera 2003

Herrera, Hayden. Arshile Gorky: His Life and Work. New York: Farrar, Straus, and Giroux, 2003, fig. 11, ill. in color, as "Still Life".

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