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Provenance
Estate of Arshile Gorky (1948)
[Sidney Janis Gallery, New York (by February 1962)]
[Sidney Janis Gallery, New York; Ferus Gallery, Los Angeles (March 1962)]
Marcia S. and Frederick R. Weisman, Los Angeles (April 1962)
[Parke-Bernet Galleries Inc., New York, Twenty Contemporary American Paintings, October 13, 1965, lot 4; bought in]
[M. Knoedler & Co. Inc., New York (December 6, 1967)]
Marcia S. and Frederick R. Weisman, Los Angeles (June 6, 1968)
Richard L. Weisman, New York, by gift (by 1975)
[Gagosian Gallery, New York (May 1990)]
Richard L. Weisman, New York (December 1990)
Present whereabouts unknown
Exhibitions
1958 Iowa City
School of Fine Arts, State University of Iowa, Iowa City, Twentieth Annual Festival of Fine Arts: Exhibition of Contemporary Paintings, June 18–August 13, 1958, no. 11, as "Terra Cotta".1960a New York
Sidney Janis Gallery, New York, 9 American Painters: Albers, Baziotes, Gorky, Guston, Kline, de Kooning, Motherwell, Pollock, Rothko, April 4–23, 1960, no. 9, ill. in b/w, as "Terra-Cotta".1961 Sarasota
John and Mable Ringling Museum of Art, Sarasota, Florida, The Sidney Janis Painters, April 8–May 7, 1961, no. 6, as "Terra-Cotta".1962b New York
Sidney Janis Gallery, New York, Paintings by Arshile Gorky from 1929 to 1948, February 5–March 3, 1962. (Exhibition catalogue: Sidney Janis Gallery 1962), no. 25, ill. in b/w, as "Terra Cotta".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. 115, p. 56, as "Terra Cotta". Traveled to: Washington Gallery of Modern Art, D.C., March 12–April 14, 1963.1965 AC–London
Arts Council of Great Britain, London (organizer), Tate Gallery, Arshile Gorky: Paintings and Drawings, April 2–May 2, 1965, no. 96, ill. in b/w, as "Terra Cotta".1965b Los Angeles
Los Angeles County Museum of Art, New York School: the First Generation, Paintings of the 1940s and 1950s, June 16–August 1, 1965, no. 27, ill. in color, p. 88, as "Terra Cotta".1981–82 New York
Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, Arshile Gorky 1904–1948: A Retrospective, April 24–July 19, 1981, no. 229, ill. in color, p. 241, as "Terra Cotta". Traveled to: Dallas Museum of Fine Arts, September 12–November 6, 1981; Los Angeles County Museum of Art, December 3, 1981–February 28, 1982.Literature
O'Hara 1962
O'Hara, Frank. "Art Chronicle." Kulchur (New York) 2, no. 6 (Summer 1962), discussed p. 56, as "Terra Cotta".Tillim 1962
Tillim, Sydney. "Arshile Gorky." Arts Magazine (New York) 36, no. 7 (April 1962), discussed, p. 50, as "Terra Cotta".Museum Boymans van Beuingen 1965
Arshile Gorky: Schilderijen en Tekeningen. Rotterdam: Museum Boymans van Beuingen, 1965. Exhibition catalogue (1965 AC–Brussels and Rotterdam), ill. in b/w, as "Terracotta".Levy 1966
Levy, Julien. Arshile Gorky. New York: Harry N. Abrams, Inc., 1966. Monograph, pl. 202, ill. in b/w, p. 226, as "Terra Cotta".Jordan 1969
Jordan, Jim M. Gorky: Drawings. New York: M. Knoedler & Co., Inc., 1969. Exhibition catalogue (1969e New York), fig. 8, ill. in b/w, p. 15, as "Terra Cotta".LACMA 1971
Los Angeles County Museum of Art. New York School: the First Generation, Paintings of the 1940s and 1950s. Foreword by Maurice Tuchman. Rev. ed. Greenwich, CT: New York Graphic Society Ltd., 1971, fig. 24, ill. in color, p. 59, as "Terra Cotta".Rand 1975
Rand, Harry. "Arshile Gorky Iconography." In Arshile Gorky: Drawings to Paintings. Austin: University of Texas at Austin, 1975. Exhibition catalogue, discussed, p. 65, as "Terra Cotta".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. 12–15, ill. in b/w, p. 194, as "Terra Cotta".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. 91, as "Terra Cotta".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. 348, ill. in b/w, pp. 527–28, as "Terra Cotta".Rand 1991
Rand, Harry. Arshile Gorky: The Implication of Symbols. Rev. ed. Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 1991. Monograph, pl. XIII, ill. in color, n.p.; fig. 12–15, ill. in b/w, p. 217, as "Terra Cotta".Shea 2002
Shea, Patricia, ed. Picasso to Pop: The Richard Weisman Collection. New York and Los Angeles: Atelier Press, 2002, fig. 36, ill. in color, p. 51, as "Terra Cotta".Related Work
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