About This Artwork

Arshile Gorky
American, born Armenia, 1904-1948

Untitled, 1947

Charcoal, with stumping, smudging, and erasing, and touches of red-orange and green crayon, on ivory laid paper
482 x 635 mm
Gift of Dorothy Braude Edinburg to the Harry B. and Bessie K. Braude Memorial Collection, 1991.699

© 2008 Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York

Exhibition, Publication and Ownership Histories

Exhibition History

Cambridge, Mass., Fogg Art Museum, Harvard University, September 1971, no. 19252.1.

The Art Institute of Chicago, "Drawings in Dialogue: Old Master Through Modern, The Harry B. and Bessie K. Braude Memorial Collection," June 3–July 30, 2006, p. 213, cat. 160 (ill.).

The Art Institute of Chicago, "Modern and Contemporary Works on Paper," March 24-September 13, 2009, no cat.

Ownership History

Sold by Bodley Gallery, New York [inv. no. 3442250], to Dorothy Braude Edinburg, November 9, 1962; given to the Art Institute, 1991.