ID 1064401
Lot 6 | ARSHILE GORKY (1904-1948)
Charred Beloved I
inscribed by Agnes Gorky Phillips, the artist's widow, 'a. gorky' (upper left)
oil on canvas
53 ½ x 39 ¾ in. (135.9 x 101 cm.)
Painted in 1946.
Provenance
Estate of the artist
Sidney Janis Gallery, New York, 1952
Marie and Walter M. Zivi, Chicago, 1956
Richard Gray Gallery, Chicago, 1976
Gerald S. Elliott, Chicago, 1976
Victoria and S. I. Newhouse, Jr., New York, circa 1989
Adriana and Robert Mnuchin, New York, circa 1993
Acquired from the above by the present owner, 1993
Literature
R. Rosenblum, "Gorky, Matta, de Kooning, Pollock," Arts Digest, New York, vol. 29, no. 17, 1 June 1955, p. 24.
"Special issue on Gorky in Italian and English with text by Toti Scialoja and excerpts from Schwabacher 1957," Arti Visive, Summer 1957, n.p., no. 2 (illustrated).
E. Schwabacher, Arshile Gorky, New York, 1957, pp. 115 and 126.
33 Paintings by Arshile Gorky, exh. cat., New York, Sidney Janis Gallery, 1957, n.p., fig. 38 (illustrated).
H. Rosenberg, Arshile Gorky: The Man, The Time, The Idea, New York, 1962, p. 104 (titled Charred Beloved).
J. Levy, Arshile Gorky, New York, 1966, p. 161, pl. 137 (illustrated).
B. Rose, "Arshile Gorky and John Graham: Eastern Exiles in a Western World," Arts Magazine, vol. 50, no. 7, March 1976, p. 67 (illustrated).
H. Herrera, "The Sculptures of Arshile Gorky," Arts Magazine, vol. 50, no. 7, March 1976, p. 89.
H. Rand, Arshile Gorky: The Implication of Symbols, London and Montclair, 1980, p. 238, fig.14-1 (illustrated).
M. Fitzgerald, "Arshile Gorky," Arts Magazine, vol. 55, no. 10, June 1981, p. 23 (illustrated).
J. M. Jordan, "Gorky at the Guggenheim," Art Journal, vol. 41, no. 3, Fall 1981, p. 263.
J. M. Jordan and R. Goldwater, The Paintings of Arshile Gorky: A Critical Catalogue, New York, 1982, pp. 88 and 468-470, no. 305 (illustrated).
M. P. Lader, Arshile Gorky, New York, 1985, pp. 90-91, fig. 89 (illustrated).
C. Frankel, "Gorky: Tragic Lyricism," International Herald Tribune, 10-11 March 1990, p. 7.
Arshile Gorky: Oeuvres sur Papier, 1929–1947, exh. cat., Lausanne, Musée cantonal des Beaux-Arts, 1990, p. 36, fig. 19 (illustrated).
H. Rand, Arshile Gorky: The Implication of Symbols, Berkeley, 1991, p. 238, pl. XIV, fig. 14-1 (illustrated).
Arshile Gorky: Works on Paper, exh. cat., Rome, Palazzo delle Esposizioni, 1992, p. 108 (titled Charred Beloved).
P. Balakian, "Arshile Gorky and the Armenian Genocide," Art in America, vol. 84, February 1996, p. 109 (titled Charred Beloved).
D. Ades, Surrealist Art: The Lindy and Edwin Bergman Collection at the Institute of Chicago, Chicago and New York, 1997, p. 212.
N. Matossian, Black Angel: The Life of Arshile Gorky, London, 1998, n.p., pl. 12 (illustrated).
M. Spender, From A High Place: A Life of Arshile Gorky, New York, 1999, pp. 304, 308 and 309.
H. Herrera, Arshile Gorky: His Life and Work, New York, 2003, pp. 482, 507-508, 518, 520, 557 and 566, fig. 166 (illustrated).
P. Schjeldahl, "Self-Made Man," The New Yorker, Issue 79, 8 September 2003, p. 95 (illustrated).
New York, New York: Fifty Years of Art, Architecture, Cinema, Performance, Photography and Video, Monaco, Grimaldi Forum, 2006, pp. 79 and 521, no. 13 (illustrated).
A. Beredjiklian, Arshile Gorky: sept thèmes majeurs, Suresnes, 2007, pp. 55 and 62.
R. S. Mattison, Arshile Gorky: Works and Writings, Barcelona, 2009, p. 109 (illustrated).
I. Sandler, "Arshile Gorky: 'An Artist of the Earth,'" Brooklyn Rail, July-August 2013, p. 34.
Arshile Gorky: 1904-1948, exh. cat., Venice, Ca' Pesaro Galleria Internazionale d'Arte Moderna, 2019, pp. 226-227 (illustrated; titled Charred Beloved).
E. Costello, ed., Arshile Gorky Catalogue Raisonné, New York, digital, 2022-ongoing, no. P305 (illustrated).
Exhibited
New York, Sidney Janis Gallery, Arshile Gorky In The Final Years, February-March 1953, n.p., no. 11.
New York, Museum of Modern Art and Washington, D.C., Washington Gallery of Modern Art, Arshile Gorky, 1904-1948, December 1962-April 1963, p. 38.
Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago Collectors, September-October 1963, p. 5.
Chicago, Museum of Contemporary Art, Modern Masters from Chicago Collections, September-October 1972, n.p.
New York, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, Acquisition Priorities: Aspects of Postwar Painting in America; Including Arshile Gorky: Works 1944-1948, October 1976-January 1977, p. 35, no. 2 (illustrated).
University of Chicago, David and Alfred Smart Gallery, Abstract Expressionism: A Tribute to Harold Rosenberg: Paintings and Drawings from Chicago Collections, October-November 1979, pp. 24 and 47, no. 12.
New York, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum; Dallas Museum of Fine Arts and Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Arshile Gorky 1904-1948: A Retrospective, April 1981-February 1982, pp. 57-59 and 178, no. 195 (illustrated).
New York, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, The New York School: Four Decades, Guggenheim Museum Collection and Major Loans, July-August 1982, n.p., no. 16.
Madrid, Sala de Exposiciones de la Fundación Caja de Pensiones and London, Whitechapel Art Gallery, Arshile Gorky 1904-1948, October 1989-March 1990, pp. 115 and 179, no. 40 (illustrated).
Berlin, Martin-Gropius-Bau; London, Royal Academy of Arts and London, Saatchi Gallery, American Art in the 20th Century: Painting and Sculpture 1913-1993, May-December 1993, n.p., no. 83 (illustrated).
New York, Gagosian Gallery, Arshile Gorky: Late Paintings, January-March 1994, pp. 34-35 and 43 (illustrated).
Washington, D.C., The National Gallery of Art; Buffalo, Albright-Knox Art Gallery and Fort Worth, Museum of Modern Art, Arshile Gorky: The Breakthrough Years, May 1995-March 1996, pp. 22, 75 and 114-115, no. 13 (illustrated).
Philadelphia Museum of Art; London, Tate Modern and Los Angeles, Museum of Contemporary Art, Arshile Gorky: A Retrospective, October 2009-September 2010, pp. 329 and 391, pl. 166 (illustrated).
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