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. 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)

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)