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| Image | Sale date | Auction house | Location | Sale name | Lot No. | Estimate | Price Sold | Condition | Title |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Nov 17, 2018 | Christie's | New York | Post-War and Contemporary Art Morning Session | 613 | $****** - ****** | Untitled |
Works on Paper
48.6 x 63.2 cm (19.13 x 24.88 in)
wax crayon and graphite on paper
signed and dated 'A Gorky 46' (lower right)
Julien Levy, Bridgewater, Connecticut, 1958
William Copley, New York, circa 1966
His sale; Sotheby's, New York, 5 November 1979, lot 13
Harold Diamond, New York
Acquired from the above by the present owner, 1981
New Haven, Yale University Art Gallery, Max Ernst and Arshile Gorky: From the Collection of Julien Levy, March-May 1964, no. 26.
College Park, University of Maryland, J. Millard Tawes Fine Arts Center, The Drawings of Arshile Gorky, March-April 1969, p. 54, no. 34.
New York, Washburn Gallery, Arshile Gorky, In Memory, November 1978, no. 11.
New York, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum; Dallas Museum of Art and Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Arshile Gorky 1904-1948: A Retrospective, April-July 1981, p. 242, no. 230 (illustrated).
Stanford University Museum of Art, Twentieth-Century Drawings from the Anderson Collection: Auguste Rodin to Elizabeth Murray, November 1988-February 1989, no. 19 (illustrated on the back cover).
Madrid, Sala de Exposiciones de la Fundación Caja de Pensiones and London, Whitechapel Art Gallery, Arshile Gorky, 1904-1948, October 1989-March 1990, pp. 150 and 193, no. 84 (illustrated).
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, Celebrating Modern Art: The Anderson Collection, October 2000-January 2001, pp. 313 and 366, no. 101, pl. 177 (illustrated).
New York, Whitney Museum of American Art and Houston, The Menil Collection, Arshile Gorky: A Retrospective of Drawings, November 2003-February 2004, pp. 171 and 244, no. 94 (illustrated).
Philadelphia Museum of Art; London, Tate Modern and Los Angeles, Museum of Contemporary Art, Arshile Gorky: A Retrospective, October 2009-September 2010, p. 312, no. 151 (illustrated).
Anderson Collection at Stanford University, Salon Style: Collected Marks on Paper, March-August 2018.
R. Reiff, "The Late Works of Arshile Gorky: A Critical Estimate," Art Journal 22, Spring 1963, pp. 148-152, fig. 4 (illustrated).
J. Levy, Arshile Gorky, New York, 1966, pl. 165 (illustrated).
R. Reiff, "Arshile Gorky's Object Matter," ARTS Magazine 50, March 1976, pp. 91-93 (illustrated).
W.C. Seitz, Abstract Expressionist Paining in America, Cambridge, 1983, p. 32, no. 77.
K. Baker, "Borrowed Glory," San Francisco Chronicle, 5 October 2000, p. E3.
signed and dated 'A Gorky 46' (lower right)
wax crayon and graphite on paper
19 1/8 x 24 7/8 in. (48.6 x 63.2 cm.)
Executed in 1946.
