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| Image | Sale date | Auction house | Location | Sale name | Lot No. | Estimate | Price Sold | Condition | Title |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Jul 11, 2020 | Christie's | New York | Post-War & Contemporary Art Day Sale | 196 | $****** - ****** | Study for Good Afternoon, Mrs. Lincoln | |||
May 13, 2015 | Christie's | New York | Post-War & Contemporary Evening Sale | 29 | $****** - ****** | Study for Good Afternoon, Mrs. Lincoln |
Works on Paper
50.8 x 66 cm (20 x 26 in)
graphite and wax crayon on paper
Julien Levy, Bridgewater, Connecticut, acquired directly from the artist
His sale; Sotheby's, New York, 4 November 1981, lot 25
Mr. and Mrs. Andrew Saul, New York
Ben Heller, New York
Private collection, Boston, 1989
Anon. sale; Christie's, New York, 13 May 2015, lot 29B
Acquired at the above sale by the present owner
New York, Whitney Museum of American Art; Minneapolis, Walker Art Center; San Francisco Museum of Art, Arshile Gorky Memorial Exhibition, January-July 1951, p, 48, no. 81.
Spoleto, Palazzo Ancaiani, Mostra di disegni americani moderni, June-July 1961, no. 20.
Paris, Centre Culturel Américain; Bonn, Städtische Kunstsammlungen; London, American Embassy, USIS Gallery, Amerikanische Zeichnungen: 1942–1961, June-September 1962, no. 21.
New York, Museum of Modern Art; Washington, D.C., Washington Gallery of Modern Art, Arshile Gorky 1904-1948: Paintings, Drawings, Studies, March 1962-February 1963, p. 33, no. 65 (illustrated).
New Haven, Yale University Art Gallery, Max Ernst and Arshile Gorky from the Collection of Julien Levy, March–May 1964, no. 24 (illustrated).
Cambridge, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Hayden Gallery, Drawings by Five Abstract Expressionist Painters: Arshile Gorky, Willem de Kooning, Jackson Pollock, Franz Kline, Philip Guston, February-March 1975, p. 13, no. 12.
New York, Nassau County Museum of Fine Art, The Abstract Expressionists and Their Precursors, January-March 1981, p. 37, no. 26 (illustrated).
New York, The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum; Dallas Museum of Art; Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Arshile Gorky 1904-1948: A Retrospective, April 1981-February 1982, no, 149A.
New York, Whitney Museum of American Art and Houston, The Menil Collection, Arshile Gorky: A Retrospective of Drawings, November 2003-May 2004, pp. 143 and 244, no. 76 (illustrated).
E. Schwabacher, Arshile Gorky, New York, Whitney Museum of American Art, 1957, p. 93, no. 42 (illustrated).
J. Levy, Arshile Gorky, New York, 1966, no. 116 (illustrated).
H. Rand, Arshile Gorky, The Implications of Symbols, Berkeley, California, 1980, p. 110, no. 6-10 (illustrated).
J. Jordan and R. Goldwater, The Paintings of Arshile Gorky: A Critical Catalogue, New York and London, 1982, p. 559.
W. C. Seitz, Abstract Expressionist Painting in America, Cambridge and London, 1983, no. 72 (illustrated).
Twentieth-Century American Art: The Ebsworth Collection, exh. cat., Washington, D.C., National Gallery of Art, 2000, p. 110, no. 2 (illustrated).
H. Herrera, Arshile Gorky: His Life and Work, New York, 2003, pp. 455–456.
