Untitled

1945–46

Arshile Gorky
American, born Ottoman Empire (Present Day Turkey), c. 1904–1948

Status: On View, Gallery 397
Department: Prints and Drawings

Artist: Arshile Gorky
Title: Untitled
Place: United States (Artist's nationality:)
Date Dates are not always precisely known, but the Art Institute strives to present this information as consistently and legibly as possible. Dates may be represented as a range that spans decades, centuries, dynasties, or periods and may include qualifiers such as c. (circa) or BCE.: 1945–1946
Medium: Pen and brush and black ink with touches of crayon and graphite on brown wrapping paper
Inscriptions: Inscribed verso, lower center: "This is an original Gorky drawing--ink and crayon on wrapping paper. Agnes Gorky Phillips 2-10-75"
Dimensions: 70.8 × 35.4 cm (27 7/8 × 13 15/16 in.)
Credit Line: Lindy and Edwin Bergman Collection
Reference Number: 2018.322
Copyright: © 2018 The Arshile Gorky Foundation / The Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York

Julien Levy, Arshile Gorky (New York, 1966), pl. 139.
William S. Rubin, Dada and Surrealist Art (New York, 1968), p. 404 (ill.).
José Pierre, L’aventure surréaliste autour d’André Breton, exh. cat. (Paris, 1986), p. 98 (ill.).
Dawn Ades, Surrealist Art: The Lindy and Edwin Bergman Collection at The Art Institute of Chicago, (Chicago, New York and London, 1997), pp. 144-145, no. 74 (ill.).

New York, Museum of Modern Art (organizer), “Drawings by Arshile Gorky,” 1963-1968; shown in New Orleans, Tulane University, Newcomb College, Sept. 23-Oct.14, 1962.; Chatham College, Pittsburgh, Oct. 29-Nov. 19, 1962; Watkins Institute, Nashville, Jan. 9-30, 1963; Spiva Art Center, Joplin, Mo., Feb. 7-28, 1963; Smith College Museum of Art, Northampton, Mass. Mar. 15-Apr. 15, 1963; Tokyo, Seibu Department Store, July 26-Aug. 11, 1963, cat. 35; Marshall College, Huntington, W. Va., Apr. 22-May 13, 1963; Westmar College, LeMars, Iowa, Sept. 2-23, 1963; Washington University, St. Louis, Mo., Oct. 4-23, 1963; Chicago, Arts Club, Nov. 10-Dec. 15, 1963; Indiana University, Bloomington, Ind., Jan. 2-23, 1964; Wells College, Aurora, N.Y., Feb. 7-28, 1964; Northern Illinois University, DeKalb, Ill., Mar. 16-Apr. 6, 1964; the Jewish Museum, New York, Apr. 21-June 22, 1964; Karlsruhe, Badischer Kunstverein, July 8-Aug. 2, 1964, cat. 35 (ill.); Hamburg, Hamburger Kunstverein, Aug. 7-Sept. 4, 1964, cat. 35 (ill.); Berlin, Amerika Haus, Sept.11-Oct. 6, 1964, cat. 35 (ill.); Essen, Folkwang Museum, Oct. 15-Nov. 15, 1964, cat. 35 (ill.); York, England, City Art Gallery, Dec. 5-30, 1964, cat. 36 (ill.); London, Institute of Contemporary Arts, Jan. 6-Feb. 13, 1965, cat. 36 (ill.); Nottingham, Midland Group Gallery, Feb. 20-Mar. 6, 1965, cat. 36 (ill.) Bristol City Art Gallery, Mar. 13-Apr. 3, 1965, cat. 36 (ill.); Edinburgh, National Gallery of Modern Art, Apr. 10-May 1, 1965, cat. 36 (ill.); Brussels, Palais des beaux arts, May 21-June 27, 1965; Rotterdam, Museum Boymans-Van-Beuningen, July 24-Sept. 5, 1965, cat. 97; Vienna, Museum des 20. Jahrhunderts, Sept. 18-Oct. 17, 1965, cat. 35; Lisbon, Sociedad nacional de belas artes, Galeria de arte moderna, Nov. 23-Dec. 23, 1965, cat. 35; Oslo, Kunstnernes Hus, Jan. 22-Feb. 13, 1966, cat. 35; Lund, Sweden, Lunds Konsthall, Mar. 5-28, 1966, cat. 35; Basel, Kupferstichkabinett der öffentlichen Kunstsammlung, Apr. 30-June 5, 1966, cat. 38; Zagreb, Galerija Suvremene Umjetnosti, June 21-July 10, 1966, cat. 38; Belgrade, Galerija Doma Omladine, Oct. 6-16, 1966; Rome, Galleria nazionale d’arte moderna, Apr. 2-May 15, 1967, cat. 39 (ill. upside down); Buenos Aires, Centro de artes visuales del instituto Torcuato Di Tella, Nov. 29-Dec. 23, 1967, cat. 38; Caracas, Museo de bellas artes, Jan. 21-Feb.14, 1968, cat. 38; Bogotá, Biblioteca Luis-Angel Arango del banco de la república, Mar. 26-Apr. 14, 1968, cat. 38; and Mexico City, Universidad nacional autónoma de México, Museo universitario de ciencias y arte, May-June 1968, cat. 38.
New York, M. Knoedler and Company, “Gorky: Drawings,” Nov. 25-Dec. 27, 1969, pp. 52 and 61, cat. 143 (ill.), cat. by Jim M. Jordan.
Chicago, Museum of Contemporary Art, “Drawings by Five Abstract Expressionist Painters,” Jan. 10-Feb. 29, 1976.
New York, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, “Arshile Gorky, 1904-1948: A Retrospective,” Apr. 24-July 19, 1981, cat. 192 (ill.), cat. by Diane Waldman; also the Dallas Museum of Fine Arts, Sept. 11-Nov. 8, 1981, and the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Dec. 3, 1981-Feb. 28, 1982.
Chicago, Museum of Contemporary Art, “Dada and Surrealism in Chicago Collections,” Dec 1, 1984-Jan. 27, 1985, p. 152 (ill.), as “Study for the Betrothal.”
Art Institute of Chicago, “A Tribute to Edwin A. Bergman (1917–1986): Selections from the Lindy and Edwin Bergman Collection,” 1986, pamphlet no. 24, as “Untitled (Study for the Betrothal).”

Estate of the artist, to at least 1966 [Levy 1966]. Harold Diamond, New York, probably after 1966 [fax of April 26, 1995, from Jeanne Havemeyer of B. C. Holland, Inc., to Adam Jolles]; sold to B. C. Holland, Chicago, 1976; sold to Lindy and Edwin Bergman, Chicago, 1976; given to the Art Institute of Chicago, 2018.

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