Contemporary Art

ARSHILE GORKY | STUDY FOR NIGHTTIME, ENIGMA AND NOSTALGIA

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October 6, 04:23 PM GMT

Estimate

60,000 - 80,000 USD

Lot Details

Description

ARSHILE GORKY

1904 - 1948

STUDY FOR NIGHTTIME, ENIGMA AND NOSTALGIA

ink on paper

Sheet: 19 by 24 in. (48.3 by 61 cm.)

Framed: 29½ by 34⅝ in. (74.9 by 87.9 cm.)

Executed circa 1930-34.

This work is recorded in the Arshile Gorky Foundation Archives under registration number D0162.

Estate of the artist

Private Collection, New York (acquired from the above)

Greenberg Van Doren Gallery, Saint Louis

Sotheby's New York, 11 May 2006, Lot 127

Private Collection, New York

Sotheby's, New York, 16 May 2007, Lot 125

Acquired at the above sale by the present owner

Santa Fe, Gerald Peters Gallery; Dallas, Gerald Peters Gallery; New York, Gerald Peters Gallery; Youngstown, The Butler Institute of American Art, Arshile Gorky: Three Decades of Drawings, September 1990 - May 1991, cat. no. 12, p. 33, illustrated in color

Los Angeles, Louis Newman Galleries, Arshile Gorky: Drawings, February - March 1991, no. 3

Greenville, NC, Greenville County Museum of Art, Arshile Gorky, July - August 1993, no. 6

Los Angeles, Manny Silverman Gallery, Arshile Gorky: Drawings, January - March 1997, no. 8