Untitled, c. 1944

Inscription

across top: (numbers 1-8); vertical along left edge: (numbers 1-7); in later hand, upper right verso in blue ink: 45 / Agnes Phillips collection

Marks and Labels

None.

Provenance

Estate of Arshile Gorky (1948);to M. Knoedler & Co. Inc., New York, March 14,1969;to Estate of Arshile Gorky, after December 1969; to Fourcade Droll Inc., New York, after February 1972; to Xavier Fourcade Inch., New York, 1976; to National Gallery of Art, Washington D.C., February 7, 1979.

Exhibition History

1962

Arshile Gorky Drawings, 1962–68, Museum of Modern Art, New York, International Council (organizer), MoMA no. 62.1055, as "Untitled Drawing," dated 1944–45, [Tokyo: no. 23, ill. in b/w; Germany: no. 22; UK: no. 24; Rotterdam: likely no. 82; Vienna: no. 22; Lisbon: no. 22; Oslo: no. 22; Lund: no. 22; Basel: no. 24; Zagreb: no. 24; Rome: no. 24, ill. in b/w; Buenos Aires: no. 25; Caracas: no. 25; Bogotá: no. 25; Mexico City: no. 25].

1969

Gorky: Drawings, M. Knoedler & Co. Inc, New York, November 25–December 27, 1969. (Exhibition catalogue: Jordan 1969), no. 90, ill. in b/w, p. 41; p. 59, as "Drawing," dated 1944–45.

1978

American Art at Mid-Century: The Subjects of the Artist, National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1978-1979.

1981

Contemporary American Prints and Drawings, National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, 1981, unnumbered brochure.

2006

Arshile Gorky, Fresno Art Museum, 2006.

Bibliography

1978

Carmean, E.A., Jr. and Eliza E. Rathbone. American Art at Mid-Century: The Subjects of the Artist. Exh. cat. National Gallery of Art, 1978: fig.27.

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