Arshile Gorky Catalogue Raisonné

Catalogue Entry

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Verso: Inscription on the upper stretcher bar

Provenance

The artist

[J.B. Neumann / New Art Circle, New York (1930)]

The artist (after March 1935)

Estate of Arshile Gorky (1948)

Private collection (1975)

[Hauser & Wirth (2020)]

Private collection (September 2021)

Exhibitions

1935a New York

Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, Abstract Painting in America, February 12–March 22, 1935, no. 48, as "Composition No. 3," lent by J. B. Neumann, New York.

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 pp. 35, 39, 43, as "Composition".

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. 78, ill. in b/w, pp. 205–206, as "Composition".

Beredjiklian 2007

Beredjiklian, Alexandre. Arshile Gorky: sept thèmes majeurs. Suresnes, France: Alphamédian & Johanet; Lisbon: Fondation Calouste Gulbenkian, 2007. Monograph, discussed p. 24, as "Composition," dated 1929–31.

Notes

After works by other artists: Pablo Picasso

Related Work

(Untitled)

c. 1929–30

Ink and ink wash on paper

D0116

Ink and ink wash on paper