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ARSHILE GORKY (1904-1948)

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Lot 4 | ARSHILE GORKY (1904-1948)
ARSHILE GORKY (1904-1948)

Untitled (The Horns of the Landscape)

graphite and wax crayon on paper laid down on canvas

19 x 24 in. (48.3 x 61 cm.)

Executed in 1944





Provenance

Estate of the artist.

Galleria dell'Obelisco, Rome.

World House Galleries, New York.

Marilyn and Bernard Brodsky, New York (1958).

Stephen Mazoh & Co., New York.

Mitchell-Innes & Nash, New York.

Acquired from the above by the late owner, 2002.



Literature

P. Johnson, "Exhibit Reveals Gorky's Genius: Menil Collection Shows 140 of Artist's Works," Houston Chronicle, 6 March 2004, p. 10D.

E. Costello, ed., Arshile Gorky Catalogue Raisonné, New York, 2022-ongoing, no. D1139 (illustrated in color).



Exhibited

Rome, Galleria dell'Obelisco, Arshile Gorky, February 1957.

Cambridge, Hayden Gallery, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Drawings by Five Abstract Expressionist Painters: Arshile Gorky, Willem de Kooning, Jackson Pollock, Franz Kline, Philip Guston, February–March 1975, no. 15.

New York, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, Arshile Gorky 1904–1948: A Retrospective, April-July 1981, p. 165, no. 132 (illustrated).

New York, Whitney Museum of American Art, Arshile Gorky: A Retrospective of Drawings, November 2003-February 2004, pp. 62 and 242 (illustrated in color, pl. 24).



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Artist:Arshile Gorky (1904 - 1948)
Art style:Post War Art
Place of origin:Armenia, Asia
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