Catalogue Entry

The artist

Raphael and Rebecca Soyer, New York, gift of the artist (1943)

Private collection, by descent (1987)

Andrew Dickson White Museum of Art, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York, The Rebecca and Raphael Soyer Collection, Summer 1962, no. 9, as "Moguch," dated c. 1930.

Soyer, Raphael. Diary of an Artist. Washington, D.C.: New Republic Books, 1977, discussed p. 244, as "Vartoosh".

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. 113, ill. in b/w, p. 241, as "Portrait of Vartoosh".