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| Image | Sale date | Auction house | Location | Sale name | Lot No. | Estimate | Price Sold | Condition | Title |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Nov 17, 2025 | Christie's | New York | The Collection of Robert F. and Patricia G. Ross Weis | 9A | $****** - ****** | Untitled | |||
Nov 13, 1991 | Sotheby's | New York | Contemporary Art Part I | 15 | Estimates not disclosed | Untitled |
Works on Paper
48.6 x 62.9 cm (19.13 x 24.75 in)
graphite and crayon on paper
signed and dated "A Gorky 46" (lower left)
Julien Levy Gallery, New York, circa 1948
Julien Levy, Bridgewater, Connecticut, 1949
Estate of Julien Levy, Bridgewater, Connecticut, 1981
Their sale; Sotheby Parke Bernet Inc., New York, 4 November 1981, lot 56
Janie C. Lee Gallery, Houston
Marisa del Re Gallery, Inc., New York, circa 1982
David McKee Gallery, New York, 1987
Katherine Komaroff Fine Arts Inc., New York, 1989
Barbara Matthes Gallery Inc., New York, 1989
Anon. sale; Sotheby"s, New York, 13 November 1991, lot 15
Acquired at the above sale by the late owners
New York, Julien Levy Gallery, Arshile Gorky: Colored Drawings , February 1947 (possibly).
Art Institute of Chicago, Fifty-Ninth Annual American Exhibition of Water Colors and Drawings , November 1948-January 1949, n.p., no. 113 (possibly; titled Abstraction ).
New York, Whitney Museum of American Art; Minneapolis, Walker Art Center and San Francisco Museum of Art, Arshile Gorky Memorial Exhibition , January-July 1951, pp. 29 and 48, no. 87 (illustrated; titled Drawing ).
Spoleto, Palazzo Ancaiani; Jerusalem, Bezalel National Museum; Paris, Centre Culturel Américain; London, American Embassy, USIS Gallery and Bonn, Städtische Kunstsammlungen, Mostra di Disegni Americani Moderni , June 1961-September 1962 (Spoleto, p. 23, no. 21; Jerusalem and Paris, n.p., no. 21; London, p. 4, no. 20; Bonn, n.p., no. 22; titled Drawing ).
New York, Museum of Modern Art and Washington, D.C., Washington Gallery of Modern Art, Arshile Gorky, 1904-1948 , December 1962-April 1963, p. 55, no. 88 (titled Drawing ).
New York, Marisa del Re Gallery, Selected Works on Paper , March-April 1982.
Athens, Pinacothèque Nationale, Modern American Paintings , September-November 1982, no. 82 (titled Untitled) .
Houston, Janie C. Lee Gallery, Master Drawings: 1928-1984 , March-April 1984, n.p., no. 3 (illustrated).
Newport Beach, Newport Harbor Art Museum; New York, Whitney Museum of American Art and Minneapolis, Walker Art Center, The Interpretive Link: Abstract Surrealism into Abstract Expressionism, Works on Paper, 1938-1948 , July 1986-April 1987, p. 72, no. 15 (illustrated).
Madrid, Sala de Exposiciones de la Fundación Caja de Pensiones and London, Whitechapel Art Gallery, Arshile Gorky, 1904-1948 , October 1989-March 1990, p. 150, no. 85 (illustrated).
J. Loftus, "Arshile Gorky: A Monograph," M.A. Thesis, Columbia University, New York, 1952, p. 45, pl. XXIX (illustrated; titled Drawing ).
R. F. Reiff, "A Stylistic Analysis of Arshile Gorky"s Art from 1943-1948," Ph.D. dissertation, Columbia University, New York, 1961, pp. 42 and 313, pl. 35 (illustrated; titled Drawing ).
J. Levy, Arshile Gorky , New York, 1966, p. 7, pl. 153 (illustrated; titled Drawing ).
W. C. Seitz, Abstract Expressionist Painting in America , Cambridge and London, 1983, pp. 16 and 32, fig. 77 (illustrated; dated circa 1946).
Barbara Matthes Gallery, Selections: Fall 1989 , New York, 1989, n.p., no. 22 (illustrated).
E. Costello, ed., Arshile Gorky Catalogue Raisonné , New York, digital, 2022-ongoing, no. D1281 (illustrated).
ARSHILE GORKY (1904-1948)
Untitled
signed and dated "A Gorky 46" (lower left)
graphite and crayon on paper
19 1/8 x 24 ¾ in. (48.6 x 62.9 cm.)
Executed in 1946.
