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Provenance
Private collection (1966) . . .
Exhibitions
Buffalo Fine Arts Academy, Albright Art Gallery, New York, Mr. and Mrs. M. Martin Janis Collection, February 2–March 2, 1935, as "Composition".
Buffalo Fine Arts Academy, Albright Art Gallery, New York, Two Collections from Western New York, January 12–February 10, 1952, no. 54, as "Composition".
Philadelphia Museum of Art, Arshile Gorky: A Retrospective, October 15, 2009–January 10, 2010. (Exhibition catalogue: Taylor 2009a), pl. 15, ill. in color, p. 173; p. 386, as "Enigma (Composition of Forms on Table)". Traveled to: Tate Modern, London, February 10–May 3, 2010 (Gale 2010); Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, June 6–September 20, 2010 (Gale 2010).
Addison Gallery of American Art, Phillips Academy, Andover, Massachusetts, American Vanguards: Graham, Davis, Gorky, de Kooning, and Their Circle, 1927–1942, September 21–December 31, 2012, p. 168; pl. 19, ill. in color, p. 26, as "Enigma (Composition of Forms on Table)". Traveled to: Neuberger Museum, Purchase College, State University of New York, January 29–April 28, 2012; Amon Carter Museum of American Art, Fort Worth, Texas, June 9–August 19, 2012.
Forum Gallery, New York, Landmarks of 20th Century American Art, November 8, 2018–January 5, 2019, ill. in color, pp. 38–39, as "Enigma (Composition of Forms on Table)".
Shin Gallery, New York, The Modernist Vanguards: John Graham, Willem de Kooning & Arshile Gorky, April 14–May 23, 2021, as "Enigma (Composition of Forms on Table)".
Rosenberg & Co, New York, John Graham: A Mentor of Modernism, October 3–December 3, 2024. (Exhibition catalogue: Rosenberg and Russo 2024), ill. in color, pp. 36–37, as "Enigma (Composition of Forms on Table)".
Literature
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 p. 35, as "Composition of Forms on Table".
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. 74, ill. in b/w, pp. 200–201, as "Composition of Forms on Table".
Notes
After works by other artists: Pablo Picasso
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