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Provenance
The artist
Raphael and Rebecca Soyer, New York, gift of the artist (1943)
Private collection, by descent (1987)
Exhibitions
1962 Ithaca likely
Andrew Dickson White Museum of Art, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York, The Rebecca and Raphael Soyer Collection, Summer 1962.Literature
Soyer 1977
Soyer, Raphael. Diary of an Artist. Washington, D.C.: New Republic Books, 1977, discussed p. 244, as "Vartoosh".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. 51, as "Portrait of Vartoosh".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. 113, ill. in b/w, p. 241, as "Portrait of Vartoosh".Notes
Watermark / Stamp: E.H. & A.C. Friedrichs Co.
Portraits (sitter identified): Vartoosh Adoian Mooradian (artist's sister)
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