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Drawing for Ben Marden"s Riviera Murals by Arshile Gorky

Arshile Gorky

Drawing for Ben Marden"s Riviera Murals, 1940

Gouache on paperboard and paperboard collage laid on panel
33 x 48.3 cm (13 x 19 in)
Works on Paper
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Last recorded sale at Sotheby's, New York (21 Nov 2024)
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Nov 21, 2024
Sotheby'sNew YorkContemporary Day Auction137
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Drawing for Ben Marden"s Riviera Murals
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Artwork Description
Category

Works on Paper

Dimensions

33 x 48.3 cm (13 x 19 in)

Materials

gouache on paperboard and paperboard collage laid on panel

Provenance

Louis Allen Abramson, New York (acquired directly from the artist circa 1940)

Sotheby"s New York, 1 October 1985, lot 21 (consigned by the above)

Solomon & Co. Fine Art Inc., New York (acquired from the above)

Acquired from the above in 1999 by the present owner

Exhibited

Newark Museum; New York, University of Rochester Memorial Art Gallery; Washington, D.C., Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden; Chicago, Museum of Contemporary Art; Houston, Museum of Fine Arts; Newport Beach, Newport Harbor Art Museum and New York, Queens Museum, Murals without Walls: Arshile Gorky"s Aviation Murals Rediscovered , November 1978 - November 1980, no. 15, p. 77, illustrated in color (titled as Mural Study, Ben Marden"s Riviera )

Literature

Jim Jordan, The Paintings of Arshile Gorky: A Critical Catalogue, New York, 1982, no. 245b, p. 391, illustrated

William Seitz, Abstract Expressionist Painting in America , Cambridge, 1983, no. 66, n.p., illustrated

Matthew Spender, From a High Place: A Life of Arshile Gorky , New York, 1999, p. 199, illustrated

Hayden Herrera, Arshile Gorky: His Life and Work, New York, 2003, no. 109, illustrated

Costello, Eileen, ed. Arshile Gorky Catalogue Raisonné . New York, ongoing, no. D0814ii , illustrated in color (online)

Description

Arshile Gorky

1904 - 1948

Drawing for Ben Marden"s Riviera Murals

gouache on paperboard and paperboard collage laid on panel

image: 8 ⅞ by 16 ¼ in. (22.5 by 41.3 cm.)

sheet: 13 by 19 in. (33 by 48.3 cm.)

Executed circa 1940.

This work is included in the Arshile Gorky Catalogue Raisonné as number D0814ii .