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Property from the Collection of David and Marussia Burliuk

Arshile Gorky

Untitled (Écorché Studies)

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Property from the Collection of David and Marussia Burliuk

Arshile Gorky

1904 - 1948


Untitled (Écorché Studies)

signed and dated 1932 (upper left)

ink on paper

8 ½ by 5 ¼ in.

21.6 by 13.3 cm.

Executed in 1932.

David and Marussia Burliuk, New York (acquired directly from the artist)

Nicholas Burliuk, Hampton Bays, New York (acquired by descent from the above in 1968)

Thence by descent to the present owners

Stony Brook, New York, Long Island Museum, Bohemian Paradise: David Burliuk, Nicolai Cikovsky and the Hampton Bays Art Group, February – July 2008

Eileen Costello, ed., Arshile Gorky Catalogue Raisonné, New York 2019–ongoing, no. D0477 (online)


The drawing is on the verso of a pamphlet for the exhibition Art and Handicraft of Ukrainian School Children held at the American Russian Institute of New York in November - December 1932.