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Photo: Christopher Burke
P370
(Pastoral)
c. 1947
Oil and graphite pencil on canvas
44 x 56 in. (111.8 x 142.2 cm)
Not inscribed
Private collection
Provenance
Private collection (2010)
[Christie's, New York, Post-War and Contemporary Art: Evening Sale, May 13, 2015, lot 50B; withdrawn]
[Hauser & Wirth (2018)]
Exhibitions
2010 Beverly Hills
Gagosian Gallery, Beverly Hills, California, Masters of the Gesture, October 2–November 6, 2010, [not in catalogue].2011b New York
Gagosian Gallery, New York, Arshile Gorky: 1947, May 6–July 1, 2011, as "Untitled (Pastoral)".2013–14 Philadelphia
Philadelphia Museum of Art, Joan Miró and Arshile Gorky: In Dialogue, October 16, 2013–May 19, 2014, as "Untitled (Pastoral)".2017 New York
Hauser & Wirth, New York, Ardent Nature: Arshile Gorky Landscapes, 1943–47, November 2–December 23, 2017. (Exhibition catalogue: Spender and Devaney 2017), ill. in color, pp. 48–49; p. 139, as "Pastoral".2019 Venice
Ca'Pesaro International Gallery of Modern Art, Venice, Italy, Arshile Gorky: 1904–1948, May 8–September 22, 2019, ill. in color, p. 133; details ill. in color, pp. 144-45, as "Pastoral".2021 Marseilles
Centre de la Vieille Charité, Marseilles, France, Le Surréalisme dans l'art américain, May 11–September 26, 2021, no. 59, ill. in color, p. 77, as "Sans titre (Pastorale) [Untitled (Pastoral)]".Literature
Cotter 2017
Cotter, Holland. "The Art of Bliss Remembered." New York Times, December 8, 2017, ill. in color, p. 21, as "Pastoral".Field 2021
Field, Parker. "Beyond The Limit." In Arshile Gorky: Beyond The Limit, edited by Jennifer Magee. Zurich: Hauser & Wirth Publishers, 2021. Exhibition catalogue, discussed p. 11; ill. in color, p. 49, as "Untitled (Pastoral)".Notes
The reverse inscription information is known from the records of the Arshile Gorky Foundation.
Commentary
The painting was discovered in 2010 beneath another canvas, Pastoral (P347), titled and dated to 1947 by Gorky. The artist had mounted both canvases onto the same stretcher, which they shared for over sixty years until their separation in 2010. The title is catalogued here in accordance with the historical appellation by which it is best known, namely, Pastoral.
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