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Lot 41
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Arshile Gorky

Estimate
15,000 - 20,000 USD
bidding is closed

Description

  • Arshile Gorky
  • Sans Titre
  • ink on paper
  • 8 1/4 by 9 5/8 in.
  • 21 by 24.5 cm.
  • Executed in 1945.

Provenance

Collection Julien and Jean Levy

Catalogue Note

Pioneering art dealer Julien Levy recalled that in the mid 1940s "I showed the later work of... Arshile Gorky, the painter now generally conceded to be the "eye-spring" of Abstract Expressionism.  André Breton was the first to write of the quality of Gorky in a preface to my first exhibition of this extraordinary painter in 1945, "The Eye-Spring".
(Julien Levy, Memoir of an Art Gallery, New York, 1977, pp. 281-282)