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Commentary
According to the artist's wife, Agnes "Mougouch" Gorky (1921–2013), To Project, To Conjure was a lifetime title, which was decided upon by Gorky and André Breton (1896–1966) through a collaborative process of free association that the two artists jointly devised in the months preceding Gorky's debut solo show at the Julien Levy Gallery in March 1945 (see commentary for P287).1 However, given there is no known extant lifetime documentation confirming its origin, we have designated the title as posthumous, with its spelling in accordance with Jim M. Jordan's catalogue raisonné.2
1. Julien Levy Gallery, New York, Arshile Gorky, March 6–31, 1945.
2. Jim M. Jordan, "Catalogue Raisonné of Paintings," in Jim M. Jordan and Robert Goldwater, The Paintings of Arshile Gorky: A Critical Catalogue (New York and London: New York University Press, 1982), 445–446.