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Catalogue Entry
Provenance
The artist
Etta and M. Martin Janis, Buffalo, New York (1934) . . .
Private collection (1966) . . .
Possibly James Goodman Gallery, New York (by 1984) . . .
Allan Stone Gallery, New York (January 1984)
Estate of Allan B. Stone (2006)
[Christie's, New York, Selections From The Allan Stone Collection, November 12, 2007, lot 614]
Joseph P. and Roberta Carroll, New York (November 12, 2007)
[Forum Gallery, New York (December 14, 2010)]
[Collisart LLC, New York (November 2021)]
Joseph P. and Roberta Carroll, New York
Exhibitions
1935 Buffalo
Buffalo Fine Arts Academy, Albright Art Gallery, New York, Mr. and Mrs. M. Martin Janis Collection, February 2–March 2, 1935, as "Composition".1952 Buffalo
Buffalo Fine Arts Academy, Albright Art Gallery, New York, Two Collections from Western New York, January 12–February 10, 1952, no. 54, as "Composition".2002c New York
Allan Stone Gallery, New York, Abstraction, March 14–April 25, 2002, as "Enigma".2009–10 Philadelphia
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).2012 Andover
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, 2012.2018–19 New York
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)".2021a New York
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)".2024d New York
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 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 p. 35, as "Composition of Forms on Table".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. 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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