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![[Untitled], c. 1936, D1640. Verso](https://cdn.panopticoncr.com/arshgor001/catalogue_images/verso_sm/ruadtsxp/Arshile%20Gorky%20poetic%20text%20front%203.jpg)
Creases in the sheet indicate that the drawing had been folded in thirds. The torn left edge indicates that it was removed from a hole-punched, wire-bound sketchbook, which is unidentified. The sketchbook also included D1639.
Commentary
The drawing is dated to c. 1936 in accordance with a letter that Gorky sent to his then-girlfriend, the American painter Corinne Michelle "Michael" West (1908–1991), in August 1936, in which he cites "The Period of Sleeping-Fits" by René Crevel (1900–1935) (see D1639; see also Gorky c. 1936a).1
1. Gorky presumably encountered Crevel's text in the following periodical: René Crevel, "The Period of Sleeping-Fits," in This Quarter 5, no. 1 (September 1932): 181–188. Letter from Arshile Gorky to Corrine "Michael" West, August 24, 1936, in Matthew Spender, ed., Arshile Gorky The Plow and the Song: A Life in Letters and Documents (Zurich: Hauser & Wirth Publishers, 2018), 122–23.
![[Head, Three-quarter View]c. 1936 D1639](https://cdn.panopticoncr.com/arshgor001/catalogue_images/main_sm/wjerfgqt/Arshile%20Gorky%20poetic%20text%20back%204.jpg "[Head, Three-quarter View]c. 1936 D1639")