The Mo Ostin Collection Evening Auction
The Mo Ostin Collection Evening Auction
Arshile Gorky
Portrait of Y.D.
Auction Closed
May 16, 10:59 PM GMT
Estimate
3,000,000 - 5,000,000 USD
Lot Details
Description
Arshile Gorky
1904 - 1948
Portrait of Y.D.
signed and dated 45 (upper right); signed again and inscribed Black Bells and Silent Lights (on the stretcher)
oil on canvas
32 by 25 in. 81.3 by 63.5 cm.
Executed in 1945.
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阿希爾・戈爾基
1904–1948年
《Y.D.的肖像》
款識︰藝術家簽名並紀年 45（右上）；再次簽名並題款 Black Bells and Silent Lights（内框）
油彩畫布
32 x 25 英寸；81.3 x 63.5 公分
1945年作
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Julien Levy Gallery, New York
Estate of the artist
Sidney Janis Gallery, New York
Instituto Torcuato Di Tella, Buenos Aires (acquired in March 1960)
Sotheby’s New York, 4 May 1987, lot 29
Ulla and Heiner Pietzsch, Berlin (acquired at the above sale)
David Tunkl Fine Art, Los Angeles
Acquired from the above in June 2006 by the present owner
Estate of the artist
Sidney Janis Gallery, New York
Instituto Torcuato Di Tella, Buenos Aires (acquired in March 1960)
Sotheby’s New York, 4 May 1987, lot 29
Ulla and Heiner Pietzsch, Berlin (acquired at the above sale)
David Tunkl Fine Art, Los Angeles
Acquired from the above in June 2006 by the present owner
Howard Devree, “By Contemporaries,” The New York Times, 2 April 1950, p. 104
Julien Levy, Arshile Gorky, New York, 1966, pl. 131, p. 155, illustrated
Jim M. Jordan and Robert Goldwater, The Paintings of Arshile Gorky: A Critical Catalogue, New York 1982, no. 304, pp. 467-68, illustrated
Ulla and Heiner Pietzsch, Leben mit Kunst: Sammlung Ulla und Heiner Pietzsch, Berlin, 2000, p. 277, illustrated in color
Eileen Costello, ed., Arshile Gorky Catalogue Raisonné, New York, ongoing, digital, no. P304, illustrated in color
Julien Levy, Arshile Gorky, New York, 1966, pl. 131, p. 155, illustrated
Jim M. Jordan and Robert Goldwater, The Paintings of Arshile Gorky: A Critical Catalogue, New York 1982, no. 304, pp. 467-68, illustrated
Ulla and Heiner Pietzsch, Leben mit Kunst: Sammlung Ulla und Heiner Pietzsch, Berlin, 2000, p. 277, illustrated in color
Eileen Costello, ed., Arshile Gorky Catalogue Raisonné, New York, ongoing, digital, no. P304, illustrated in color
New York, Julien Levy Gallery, Arshile Gorky: Paintings 1946, 1946, no. 5
New York, Kootz Gallery, Selected Paintings by the Late Arshile Gorky, 1950
New York, Whitney Museum of American Art; Minneapolis, Walker Art Center; and San Francisco Museum of Art, Arshile Gorky Memorial Exhibition, 1951, no. 40, p. 47
New York, Sidney Janis Gallery, 33 Paintings by Arshile Gorky, 1957, no. 23, illustrated
Buenos Aires, Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes, Colección Torcuato Di Tella, Premio Pintores Argentinos, Muestra Individual de Alberto Burri, 1960, no. 50
Buenos Aires, Instituto Argentino de Cultura Italiana; Córdoba, Museo Provincial de Bellas Artes Emilio A. Caraffa; Montevideo, Centro de Artes y Letras El País; Mar del Plata, Salones de Arte del Hotel Provincial; Santa Fe, Argentina, Museo Provincial de Bellas Artes Rosa Galisteo de Rodriguez; Rosario, Museo Municipal de Bellas Artes Juan B. Castagnino; and La Plata, Residencia de los Gobernadores, De Daumier a Nuestros Dias. De la Colección Torcuato Di Tella, 1960-64, no. 31
Buenos Aires, Centro de Artes Visuales del Instituto Torcuato Di Tella, Colección Torcuato Di Tella, 1965, no. 56, pp. 15 and 57, illustrated
Vienna, BA-CA Kunstforum, Verrückte Liebe: Von Dalí bis Francis Bacon, Surreale Kunst aus der Sammlung Ulla und Heiner Pietzsch, 2006, no. 95, p. 173, illustrated in color
Los Angeles, Gagosian Gallery, Masters of the Gesture, 2010, p. 37, illustrated in color
New York, Kootz Gallery, Selected Paintings by the Late Arshile Gorky, 1950
New York, Whitney Museum of American Art; Minneapolis, Walker Art Center; and San Francisco Museum of Art, Arshile Gorky Memorial Exhibition, 1951, no. 40, p. 47
New York, Sidney Janis Gallery, 33 Paintings by Arshile Gorky, 1957, no. 23, illustrated
Buenos Aires, Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes, Colección Torcuato Di Tella, Premio Pintores Argentinos, Muestra Individual de Alberto Burri, 1960, no. 50
Buenos Aires, Instituto Argentino de Cultura Italiana; Córdoba, Museo Provincial de Bellas Artes Emilio A. Caraffa; Montevideo, Centro de Artes y Letras El País; Mar del Plata, Salones de Arte del Hotel Provincial; Santa Fe, Argentina, Museo Provincial de Bellas Artes Rosa Galisteo de Rodriguez; Rosario, Museo Municipal de Bellas Artes Juan B. Castagnino; and La Plata, Residencia de los Gobernadores, De Daumier a Nuestros Dias. De la Colección Torcuato Di Tella, 1960-64, no. 31
Buenos Aires, Centro de Artes Visuales del Instituto Torcuato Di Tella, Colección Torcuato Di Tella, 1965, no. 56, pp. 15 and 57, illustrated
Vienna, BA-CA Kunstforum, Verrückte Liebe: Von Dalí bis Francis Bacon, Surreale Kunst aus der Sammlung Ulla und Heiner Pietzsch, 2006, no. 95, p. 173, illustrated in color
Los Angeles, Gagosian Gallery, Masters of the Gesture, 2010, p. 37, illustrated in color