Composition, c. 1936-1939

Not on View

Medium

pen and black ink on wove paper

Dimensions

sheet: 21.3 x 29.8 cm (8 3/8 x 11 3/4 in.)

Credit Line

Gift of Ruth Cole Kainen

Catalogue Raisonné

Costello,No.D0456

Accession Number

2007.141.19

Artists / Makers

Arshile Gorky (artist) American, born Van Province, Ottoman Empire (now Turkey), c. 1904 - 1948

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Inscription

upper right in pen and black ink: Arshile

Marks and Labels

None.

Provenance

The artist; Leonore Gallet (Leonora Portnoff?), New York, purchased 1938-1940; (New Art Center, January 23, 1964). (Weintraub Gallery, New York); Ruth Cole Kainen, Washington, D.C., purchased June 5, 1969; gift to NGA, 2007.

Associated Names

Gallet, Leonore
Kainen, Jacob, Mrs.
New Art Center
Weintraub Gallery

Exhibition History

1981: Arshile Gorky 1904–1948: A Retrospective, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, April 24–July 19, 1981, no. 97, ill. in b/w, p. 139, as "Abstract Composition," dated c. 1931.

2014: Modern American Prints and Drawings from the Kainen Collection, National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, 2014-2015