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Provenance
Exhibitions
Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian, Centro de Arte Moderna José Azeredo Perdigão, Lisbon, Arshile Gorky: Collection Mooradian, October 24–November 25, 1984, no. 4, ill. in color, p. 92, as "Portrait of Vartoosh," dated 1933. Traveled to: Centre Culturel Portugais, Paris, January 17–March 9, 1985.
Gagosian Gallery, New York, Arshile Gorky: Portraits, March 20–April 27, 2002. (Exhibition catalogue: Gagosian Gallery 2002), ill. in color, p. 62, as "Portrait of Vartoosh," dated c. 1933–34.
Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian, Centro de Arte Moderna José Azeredo Perdigão, Lisbon, Arshile Gorky e a Coleção, June 4, 2014–May 31, 2015, ill. in color, p. 3, as "Portrait of Vartoosh / Retrato de Vartoosh," dated 1933.
Ca'Pesaro International Gallery of Modern Art, Venice, Italy, Arshile Gorky: 1904–1948, May 8–September 22, 2019, ill. in color, p. 85, as "Portrait of Vartoosh," dated 1933.
Literature
Mooradian, Karlen. Arshile Gorky Adoian. Chicago: Gilgamesh Press, 1978. Monograph, fig. 44, ill. in color, p. 63, as "Portrait of Vartoosh," dated 1933.
Mooradian, Karlen. The Many Worlds of Arshile Gorky. Chicago: Gilgamesh Press, 1980. Monograph, fig. 21, ill. in b/w (detail), p. 76, as "Portrait of Vartoosh," dated 1933.
Mooradian, Karlen, and Takahiko Okada. アーシル・ゴーキー: ある異邦人との対話 (The Life of Arshile Gorky). Tokyo: PARCO Co. Ltd., 1982. Monograph, no. 4, ill. in color, pp. 16–17, as "Portrait of Vartoosh," dated 1933.
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. 51, as "Portrait of Vartoosh".
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. 112, ill. in b/w, pp. 240–41, as "Portrait of Vartoosh".
Herrera, Hayden. "Gorky's Distant Likenesses." Art in America (New York) 90 (November 2002), ill. in color, p. 150, as "Portrait of Vartoosh," dated 1933.
Thil, Marie-Anne. "Arshile Gorky: entre le surrélisme et l'art abstrait." France Arménie (October 2014), ill. in color, p. 68, as "Portrait of Vartoosh," dated 1933.
Spender, Matthew, ed. Arshile Gorky: The Plow and the Song: A Life in Letters and Documents. Zurich: Hauser & Wirth Publishers, 2018, ill. in color, p. 155, as "Portrait of Vartoosh," dated 1933–34.
Notes
Portraits (sitter identified): Vartoosh Adoian Mooradian (artist's sister)
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