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| Image | Sale date | Auction house | Location | Sale name | Lot No. | Estimate | Price Sold | Condition | Title |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Nov 21, 2024 | Sotheby's | New York | Contemporary Day Auction | 136 | $****** - ****** | Drawing for Ben Marden"s Riviera Murals |
Works on Paper
33 x 48.3 cm (13 x 19 in)
gouache on paperboard laid on panel
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
New York, Whitney Museum of American Art; Minneapolis, Walker Art Center and San Francisco Museum of Art, Arshile Gorky Memorial Exhibition, January - July 1951, no. 57, p. 47 (titled as Study for Ben Marden"s Riviera Murals)
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. 14, p. 76, illustrated in color (titled as Mural Study, Ben Marden"s Riviera )
Jim Jordan, The Paintings of Arshile Gorky: A Critical Catalogue, New York, 1982, no. 245a, p. 391, illustrated (titled as Sketch for Left-Side Panel, Ben Marden"s Riviera Murals )
William Seitz, Abstract Expressionist Painting in America , Cambridge, 1983, no. 65, n.p., illustrated (titled as Sketch for Ben Marden"s Riviera Murals )
Exh. Cat., Philadelphia Museum of Art (and travelling), Arshile Gorky: A Retrospective , October 2009 - September 2010, p. 360, illustrated
Kim Theriault, Rethinking Arshile Gorky, University Park, 2009, no. 35, p. 99, illustrated (titled as Mural Study, Riviera Nightclub )
Costello, Eileen, ed. Arshile Gorky Catalogue Raisonné . New York, ongoing, no. D0814i , illustrated in color (online)
Arshile Gorky
1904 - 1948
Drawing for Ben Marden"s Riviera Murals
gouache on paperboard laid on panel
image: 9 by 16 in. (22.9 by 40.6 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 D0814i .