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Arshile Gorky

Untitled

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May 15, 02:00 PM GMT

Estimate

300,000 - 400,000 USD

Bid

250,000 USD

Lot Details

Description

Arshile Gorky

1904 - 1948


Untitled

signed and dated 1930 (on the reverse)

oil on linen

30 by 23 ⅜ in.

76.2 by 59.4 cm.

Executed in 1930.

Estate of the artist

Thomas Sills, New York (acquired from the above as a gift circa 1960

Tougaloo College, Jackson (acquired from the above as a gift in 1964)

Sotheby's New York, 5 October 1989, lot 15 (consigned by the above)

Acquired at the above sale by the present owner

Jackson, Mississippi, Clinton Public Library, Tougaloo College, Works of Art loaned by Tougaloo College, April 1975

Jackson, Mississippi, Clinton Public Library, Tougaloo College, New York: The Influence, April 1983

Patrick J. Kelleher, "College Museum Notes," Art Journal, New York, Summer 1965, issue 24, p. 360

"Tougaloo Loans Arts to Clinton Library," Clarion-Ledger, 13 April 1975, p. D26

Donald la Badie, "Jackson, Miss., Gets a New Gallery," Commercial Appeal, 6 March 1983, p. 18

Nell Luter, "Tougaloo's Noted Art Collection Has No Home But the Basement," Clarion-Ledger, 17 February 1985, p. G1, illustrated