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ARSHILE GORKY (1904-1948)

Lot 193
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ID 949557
Lot 193 | ARSHILE GORKY (1904-1948)
Estimate value
$ 400 000 – 600 000
ARSHILE GORKY (1904-1948)

Untitled

wax crayon and graphite on paper

18 5/8 x 23 1/2 in. (47.3 x 59.8 cm.)

Executed circa 1944.





Provenance

Estate of Arshile Gorky, 1948

Galleria dell'Obelisco, Rome

Luigi Carluccio, Turin

Isabella del Frate Inc., New York

Allan Stone Gallery, New York, 1985

Private Collection, New York, 1985

By descent from the above to the present owner



Literature

A. Basaldella, Arshile Gorky, exh. cat., Rome, Galleria dell'Obelisco, 1957.

I. Brin, "Crónica de Roma", Goya, April–May 1957, p. 317 (illustrated).

"Paragone: Inghilterra–Stati Uni", Notiziario: La Medusa Studio d'Arte Contemporanea, Rome, 28 July 1961, n.p., no. 2.

G. Marchiori and F. Russoli, La pittura moderna straniera nelle collezioni private italiane, 1961, n.p., no. 186 (illustrated).

L. Mallé and L. Carluccio, Le Muse Inquietanti: Maestri del Surrealismo, 1967, n.p., no. 259 (illustrated).

E. Costello, ed., Arshile Gorky Catalogue Raisonné, online, 2021–ongoing, no. D1588 (illustrated).



Exhibited

Rome, Galleria dell'Obelisco; Bologna, Galleria La Loggia, and Milano, Galleria Montenapoleone, Arshile Gorky, February-April 1957.

Turin, Galleria Civica d'Arte Moderna, La pittura moderna straniera nelle collezioni private italiane, March–April 1961.

Rome, Galleria La Medusa, Paragone: Inghilterra–Stati Uniti, June 1961.

Turin, Galleria Civica d'Arte Moderna, Le Muse Inquietanti: Maestri del Surrealismo, November 1967–January 1968.



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This work is included in the Arshile Gorky Catalogue Raisonné as number D1588.
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