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Provenance
The artist
Julien Levy Gallery, New York (1945)
Julien Levy, Bridgewater, Connecticut (1949)
[Samuel Kootz Gallery, New York (March 21, 1950)]
Estate of Arshile Gorky (April 26, 1950)
[Sidney Janis Gallery, New York (c. January 17, 1957)]
Estate of Arshile Gorky (by 1963)
[M. Knoedler & Co. Inc., New York (c. November 1967)]
Merrill C. Berman, New York (June 17, 1971)
Allan Stone Gallery, New York (February 1974)
Pamela and Barney A. Ebsworth, Saint Louis (May 1997)
[Christie's, New York, An American Place: The Barney A. Ebsworth Collection Evening Sale, November 13, 2018, lot 4B]
Robert Kotick, Santa Monica, California (November 13, 2018)
Exhibitions
1950a New York
Kootz Gallery, New York, Selected Paintings by the Late Arshile Gorky, March 28–April 24, 1950. (Exhibition brochure: Gottlieb 1950), as "Good Day, Mrs. Lincoln".1951a New York
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, Arshile Gorky Memorial Exhibition, January 5–February 18, 1951, no. 30, p. 47, as "Good Afternoon, Mrs. Lincoln". Traveled to: Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, March 4–April 22, 1951; San Francisco Museum of Art, California, May 9–July 9, 1951.1957f New York
Sidney Janis Gallery, New York, 33 Paintings by Arshile Gorky, December 2–28, 1957. (Exhibition catalogue: Sidney Janis Gallery 1957), no. 20, ill. in b/w, as "Good Afternoon Mrs. Lincoln".1962 Venice
XXXI Biennale di Venezia: Internazionale d'Arte, U.S. Pavilion, Venice, Italy, Arshile Gorky, June 16–October 7, 1962, no. 15, p. 114, as "Buona sera Mrs. Lincoln".1962–63b New York
Museum of Modern Art, New York, Arshile Gorky, 1904–1948, December 19, 1962–February 12, 1963. (Exhibition catalogue: Seitz 1962), no. 66, ill. in b/w, p. 33; p. 54, as "Good Afternoon, Mrs. Lincoln". Traveled to: Washington Gallery of Modern Art, D.C., March 12–April 14, 1963.1965 AC–Brussels and Rotterdam
Arts Council of Great Britain, London (organizer), Arshile Gorky, Paintings and Drawings / Arshile Gorky: Schilderijen en Tekeningen, 1965, no. 66, ill. in b/w, as "Goedenmiddag mevrouw Lincoln / Good afternoon, Mrs. Lincoln". Traveled to: Palais des Beaux-Arts, Brussels, May 22–June 27, 1965; Museum Boymans van Beuningen, Rotterdam, the Netherlands, July 24–September 5, 1965 (Museum Boymans van Beuingen 1965).1965 AC–London
Arts Council of Great Britain, London (organizer), Tate Gallery, Arshile Gorky: Paintings and Drawings, April 2–May 2, 1965, no. 59, ill. in b/w, as "Good Afternoon, Mrs. Lincoln".1965 Paris
Galerie de L'Oeil, Paris, L'Ecart absolu, December 1965, no. 44, as "Good Afternoon, Mrs. Lincoln".1967–68 Turin
Galleria Civica d'Arte Moderna, Turin, Italy, Le Muse Inquietanti: Maestri del Surrealismo, November 1967–January 1968, no. 260, ill. in b/w, p. 190, as "Buon pomeriggio, signora Lyncoln".1972c New York
Allan Stone Gallery, New York, Arshile Gorky: Paintings and Drawings, November 14–December 22, 1972.1978 Ithaca
Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York (organized in collaboration with the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York), Abstract Expressionism: The Formative Years, March 30–May 14, 1978. (Exhibition catalogue: Hobbs and Levin 1978); (Exhibition catalogue: Levin 1978a); (Exhibition catalogue: Levin 1978b), as "Good Afternoon, Mrs. Lincoln". Traveled to: Seibu Museum of Art, Tokyo, June 17–July 12, 1978; Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, October 5–December 3, 1978.1981–82 New York
Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, Arshile Gorky 1904–1948: A Retrospective, April 24–July 19, 1981, no. 149, ill. in color, p. 180, as "Good Afternoon, Mrs. Lincoln," [exhibited in New York only]. Traveled to: Dallas Museum of Fine Arts, September 12–November 6, 1981; Los Angeles County Museum of Art, December 3, 1981–February 28, 1982.1995–96 Fort Worth / Buffalo
Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth and Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo (organizers), Arshile Gorky: The Breakthrough Years, 1995–96, no. 4, ill. in color, p. 97, as "Good Afternoon, Mrs. Lincoln". Traveled to: National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., May 7–September 17, 1995; Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, New York, October 13–December 31, 1995; Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, Texas, January 13–March 17, 1996.2000 Washington, D.C.
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., Twentieth-Century American Art: The Ebsworth Collection, March 5–June 11, 2000, no. 23, ill. in color, p. 111; detail ill. in color, p. 113, as "Good Afternoon, Mrs. Lincoln". Traveled to: Seattle Art Museum, Washington, August 10–November 12, 2000.2009–10 Philadelphia
Philadelphia Museum of Art, Arshile Gorky: A Retrospective, October 15, 2009–January 10, 2010. (Exhibition catalogue: Taylor 2009a), pl. 119, ill. in color, p. 280; p. 390, as "Good Afternoon, Mrs. Lincoln". Traveled to: Tate Modern, London, February 10–May 3, 2010 (Gale 2010); Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, June 6–September 20, 2010 (Gale 2010).Literature
Artnews 1945a
"Julien Levy Gallery (advertisement)." Artnews (New York) 44, no. 2 (March 1–14, 1945), ill. in b/w, p. 7.Breton 1945a
Breton, André. Le surréalisme et la peinture. New York: Brentano's, 1945, ill. in b/w (repr. 90 degrees counterclockwise), as "Good Afternoon Mrs. Lincoln".Polley 1951
Polley, E.M. "Art and Artists: Memorial Exhibition." Vallejo Times-Herald (Vallejo, CA), May 27, 1951, discussed, p. 22, as "Good Afternoon Mrs. Lincoln".Schwabacher 1957
Schwabacher, Ethel. Arshile Gorky. Introduction by Meyer Schapiro. New York: The Macmillan Company for the Whitney Museum of American Art, 1957. Monograph, discussed pp. 98–99, as "Good Afternoon Mrs. Lincoln".Jouffroy 1959
Jouffroy, Alain. "Arshile Gorky et les secrets de la nuit." Cahiers du musée de poche (Paris) 2 (June 1959), ill. in b/w, p. 79, as "Bonsoir, Madame Lincoln".Breton 1965
Breton, André. Le Surréalisme et la peinture. Paris: Editions Gallimard, 1965, ill. in b/w, p. 191, as "Good Afternoon, Mrs. Lincoln".Roberts 1965
Roberts, Keith. "Major Retrospective at the Tate." The Burlington Magazine (London) 107, no. 746 (May 1965), discussed p. 271, as "Good Afternoon, Mrs. Lincoln".Levy 1966
Levy, Julien. Arshile Gorky. New York: Harry N. Abrams, Inc., 1966. Monograph, pl. 115, ill. in color, p. 139, as "Good Afternoon, Mrs. Lincoln".Wasserman 1970
Wasserman, Emily. The American Scene—Early Twentieth Century Art. Rev. ed. Milan: Fratelli Fabbri Editori and New York: McCall Publishing Company, 1970, pl. 50, ill. in color, p. 68; ill. in color, front cover, as "Good Morning, Mrs. Lincoln".Kingsley 1973a
Kingsley, April. "Reviews & Previews." Artnews (New York) 72 (January 1973), discussed p. 18, as "Good Afternoon, Mrs. Lincoln".Kingsley 1973b
Kingsley, April. "New York Letter." Art International (Paris) 27 (February 1973), discussed p. 42, as "Good Afternoon, Mrs. Lincoln".Kagitani 1976
Kagitani, Y. "Arshile Gorky: A Man Who Lived in the Middle of Solitude." Mizue (みづゑ) (Tokyo) 9, no. 858 (September 1976), ill. in b/w, p. 32.Jordan 1981
Jordan, Jim M. "Gorky at the Guggenheim." Art Journal (New York) 41, no. 3 (Fall 1981), discussed pp. 263, 265, as "Good Afternoon Mrs. Lincoln".Rand 1981
Rand, Harry. Arshile Gorky: The Implication of Symbols. Montclair, NJ: Allanheld, Osmun & Co. Publishers Inc., and London: George Prior Associated Publishers Ltd., 1981. Monograph, fig. 6–11, ill. in b/w, p. 98, as "Good Afternoon, Mrs. Lincoln".Millard 1982
Millard, Charles W. "Arshile Gorky." The Hudson Review (New York) 35, no. 1 (Spring 1982), discussed, p. 109, as "Good Afternoon, Mrs. Lincoln".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. 86–87, as "Good Afternoon, Mrs. Lincoln".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. 286, pl. 7, ill. in color, p. 111; ill. in b/w, pp. 441–42, as "Good Afternoon, Mrs. Lincoln".Lader 1985
Lader, Melvin P. Arshile Gorky. New York: Abbeville Press, 1985. Monograph, fig. 75, ill. in b/w, p. 80, as "Good Afternoon, Mrs. Lincoln".Rand 1991
Rand, Harry. Arshile Gorky: The Implication of Symbols. Rev. ed. Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 1991. Monograph, pl. VI, ill. in color, n.p.; fig. 6–11, ill. in b/w, p. 111, as "Good Afternoon, Mrs. Lincoln".Dervaux 1998
Dervaux, Isabelle. "Détail, analogie et mimétisme: De l'inspiration de la nature dans les abstractions de Arshile Gorky." Les Cahiers du Musée National d'Art Moderne (Paris) 65 (Autumn 1998), ill. in b/w, p. 58, as "Good Afternoon, Mrs. Lincoln".Spender 1999
Spender, Matthew. From a High Place: A Life of Arshile Gorky. New York: A.A. Knopf, 1999, discussed pp. 274–75, 283, as "Good Afternoon, Mrs. Lincoln".Herrera 2003
Herrera, Hayden. Arshile Gorky: His Life and Work. New York: Farrar, Straus, and Giroux, 2003, fig. 161, ill. in color, as "Good Afternoon, Mrs. Lincoln".Kelly 2006
Kelly, Franklin. Art & Architecture: the Ebsworth Collection and Residence. Edited by Dung Ngo. San Francisco: William Stout Publishers, 2006, ill. in color, n.p.; ill. in color (detail), n.p., as "Good Afternoon, Mrs. Lincoln".Beredjiklian 2007
Beredjiklian, Alexandre. Arshile Gorky: sept thèmes majeurs. Suresnes, France: Alphamédian & Johanet; Lisbon: Fondation Calouste Gulbenkian, 2007. Monograph, discussed pp. 52, 65, as "Bon après-midi, Mme Lincoln".Cooksey 2009
Cooksey, Chelsea L. "Arshile Gorky: The Abstraction of Symbol, Figure, and Form." M.A. Thesis, Purchase College, State University of New York, 2009, fig. 57, ill. in color, p. 83; fig. 58, ill. in color (detail), p. 84, as "Good Afternoon, Mrs. Lincoln".![[Drawing, Good Afternoon, Mrs. Lincoln]1944 D1056](https://cdn.panopticoncr.com/arshgor001/catalogue_images/main_sm/zddaokti/D1056_High-res_via%20Christie%27s-1.jpg "[Drawing, Good Afternoon, Mrs. Lincoln]1944 D1056")