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Arshile Gorky Catalogue Raisonné

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Provenance
The artist
Frederick Kiesler, New York, gift of the artist . . .
Margit Chanin Ltd., New York (by 1965)
Joan and Lester Avnet, New York (by October 1967)
[Sotheby Parke Bernet Inc., New York, Important 19th and 20th Century Drawings and Watercolors, Collected by the Late Lester Avnet, March 18, 1976, lot 34]
Allan Stone Gallery, New York (March 18, 1976)
Private collection, San Francisco (2014)
Exhibitions
1948c New York possibly
Julien Levy Gallery, New York, Arshile Gorky, 1905–1948, November 16–December 4, 1948.
1981–82 New York
Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, Arshile Gorky 1904–1948: A Retrospective, April 24–July 19, 1981, no. 51, ill. in b/w, p. 103, as "Untitled (Study for a Mural)," dated c. 1931–32. Traveled to: Dallas Museum of Fine Arts, September 12–November 6, 1981; Los Angeles County Museum of Art, December 3, 1981–February 28, 1982.
1983 San Francisco
Jeremy Stone Gallery, San Francisco, Willem de Kooning and Arshile Gorky: A Selection of Drawings and Paintings, February 1–26, 1983, no. 2, as "Untitled (Study for a Mural)".
Literature
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. 4–17, ill. in b/w, p. 68, as "Nighttime, Enigma and Nostalgia (study for a mural)," dated 1929–32.
Waldman 1981
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. 32, as "Study for a Mural".
Karp 1982
Karp, Diane. "Arshile Gorky: The Language of Art." Ph.D. diss., University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, 1982, fig. 45, ill. in b/w (repr. 90 degrees counterclockwise), p. 213, as "Untitled (Study for Mural)".
Rand 1991
Rand, Harry. Arshile Gorky: The Implication of Symbols. Rev. ed. Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 1991. Monograph, fig. 4–17, ill. in b/w, pp. 74–75, as "Nighttime, Enigma and Nostalgia (study for a mural)," dated 1929–32.
Lader et al 1994
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. 25, ill. in b/w, p. 81, as "Untitled (Study for a mural)".
Notes
[Nighttime, Enigma, and Nostalgia: 1934], c. 1933–34, D1531. Gorky's personal copy of a reproduction of panels 3 and 4 from Miracle of the Desecrated Host (1467–1468) by Paolo Uccello.
Gorky's personal copy of a reproduction of panels 3 and 4 from Miracle of the Desecrated Host (1467–1468) by Paolo Uccello.
[Nighttime, Enigma, and Nostalgia: 1934], c. 1933–34, D1531. Panel 2. Paolo Uccello, Miracle of the Desecrated Host, c. 1467–69, oil on panel, 138 x 17 in. (350.3 x 43.2 cm). Galleria Nazionale della Marche, Urbino.
Panel 2. Paolo Uccello, Miracle of the Desecrated Host, c. 1467–69, oil on panel, 138 x 17 in. (350.3 x 43.2 cm). Galleria Nazionale della Marche, Urbino.

After works by other artists: Mario Tozzi; Paolo Uccello

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