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Provenance
Exhibitions
Guild Art Gallery, New York, Abstract Drawings by Arshile Gorky, December 16, 1935–January 5, 1936, as "Abstraction".
George Walter Vincent Smith Art Gallery, Springfield, Massachusetts, Some New Forms of Beauty, 1909–1936. A Selection of the Collection of the Société Anonyme — Museum of Modern Art: 1920, November 9–December 17, 1939, no. 17, p. 9, as "Forms in Pen and Ink".
Wadsworth Atheneum, Hartford, Connecticut, Some New Forms of Beauty, 1909–1936. A Selection of the Collection of the Société Anonyme — Museum of Modern Art: 1920, January 4–February 4, 1940, no. 17, as "Forms in Pen and Ink".
Davison Art Rooms of Olin Library, Wesleyan University, Middletown, Connecticut, Oil Paintings, Watercolors and Prints lent by the Yale University Art Gallery from the Collection of the Société Anonyme–Museum of Modern Art, February 28–March 31, 1942.
J. Millard Tawes Fine Arts Center, University of Maryland Art Department and Art Gallery, College Park, The Drawings of Arshile Gorky, March 20–April 27, 1969. (Exhibition catalogue: Joyner 1969), no. 3 (Drawings, Sketches, Gouaches), p. 53; fig. 19, ill. in color, p. 36, as "Forms".
M. Knoedler & Co. Inc, New York, Gorky: Drawings, November 25–December 27, 1969. (Exhibition catalogue: Jordan 1969), no. 15, ill. in b/w, p. 22; p. 55, as "Forms".
Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, Arshile Gorky 1904–1948: A Retrospective, April 24–July 19, 1981, no. 40, ill. in b/w, p. 94, as "Forms". Traveled to: Dallas Museum of Fine Arts, September 12–November 6, 1981; Los Angeles County Museum of Art, December 3, 1981–February 28, 1982.
Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, Connecticut, [Bob Herbert's Teaching Exhibition], January–May 1983.
Sala de Exposiciones de la Fundación Caja de Pensiones, Madrid, Arshile Gorky, 1904–1948, October 17–December 23, 1989, no. 52, ill. in color, p. 134, as "Nighttime, Enigma and Nostalgia," dated 1931–32. Traveled to: Whitechapel Art Gallery, London, January 19–March 25, 1990.
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, Arshile Gorky: A Retrospective of Drawings, November 20, 2003–February 15, 2004, no. 42, ill. in color, p. 97; p. 243, as "Nighttime, Enigma and Nostalgia," dated 1931–32. Traveled to: Menil Collection, Houston, March 5–May 9, 2004.
Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven (organizer), The Société Anonyme: Modernism for America, 2006–13, ill. in color, p. 174, as "Nighttime, Enigma and Nostalgia". Traveled to: Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, April 23–August 20, 2006; Phillips Collection, Washington, D.C., October 14, 2006–January 21, 2007; Dallas Museum of Fine Arts, June 10–September 16, 2007; Frist Center for the Visual Arts, Nashville, October 26, 2007–February 3, 2008; Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, Connecticut, December 4, 2012–June 23, 2013.
Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, Connecticut, Artists in Exile: Expressions of Loss and Hope, September 1–December 31, 2017, no. 14, p. 245; fig. 1, ill. in color, p. 118, as "Nighttime, Enigma and Nostalgia".
Literature
Hamilton, George Heard. "Arshile Gorky." In Collection of the Société Anonyme: Museum of Modern Art 1920. New Haven: Yale University Art Gallery, 1950, ill. in b/w, p. 34, as "Forms".
Waldman, Diane. "Arshile Gorky: Poet in Paint." In Arshile Gorky 1904–1948: A Retrospective. New York: Harry N. Abrams, Inc. in collaboration with The Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation, 1981. Exhibition catalogue, discussed p. 28, as "Forms".
Karp, Diane. "Arshile Gorky: The Language of Art." Ph.D. diss., University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, 1982, fig. 49, ill. in b/w, p. 217, as "Forms".
Herbert, Robert L., Eleanor S. Apter, and Elise K. Kenney, eds. The Société Anonyme and the Dreier Bequest at Yale University: A Catalogue Raisonné. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1984, no. 308, ill. in b/w, p. 307, as "Nighttime, Enigma and Nostalgia".
Lader, Melvin P., Joseph P. Ruzicka, Martin Kline, and Sarah E. Lawrence. "Catalogue [of Plates]." In Arshile Gorky and the Genesis of Abstraction: Drawings from the Early 1930s. New York: Stephen Mazoh & Co., Inc., Distributed by the University of Washington Press, Seattle and London, 1994. Exhibition catalogue, fig. 21, ill. in b/w, p. 64, as "Nighttime, Enigma and Nostalgia".
Kerr, Melissa. "Chronology." In Arshile Gorky: A Retrospective, edited by Michael Taylor. Philadelphia: Philadelphia Museum of Art, 2009. Exhibition catalogue, fig. 140, ill. in b/w (in situ), as "Nighttime, Enigma, and Nostalgia," in Guild Art Gallery, New York, December 1935.
Matttison, Robert S. Arshile Gorky: Works and Writings. Barcelona: Ediciones Polígrafica, 2009. Monograph, ill. in color, p. 37, as "Nighttime, Enigma and Nostalgia".
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. 83, as "Untitled".
Notes
Watermark / Stamp: Strathmore
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