Arshile Gorky

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

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)

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)