Arshile Gorky (1904-1948)

Study for Agony I

细节

Arshile Gorky (1904-1948)
Study for Agony I
signed 'A. Gorky' lower right
graphite, colored crayons and wash on paper
22 x 30in. (55.9 x 76.2cm.)
Drawn in 1946-1947.

来源

The Estate of Arshile Gorky.
M. Knoedler & Co., Inc., New York.
Private collection, Texas.
Sarah Campbell Blaffer Foundation, Houston.
The Pace Gallery, New York.

展览

New York, Sidney Janis Gallery, Late Drawings by Gorky, Oct. 1959, no. 30 (illustrated).
New York, The Museum of Modern Art, and The Washington Gallery of Modern Art, Arshile Gorky, Dec. 1962-Mar. 1963, p. 40, no. 99 (illustrated).
Tokyo, Seibu Department Store, Drawings by Arshile Gorky, July-Aug. 1963, organized under the auspices of The International Council of The Museum of Modern Art (illustrated).
York, City Art Gallery; London, Institute of Contemporary Arts; Nottingham, Midland Group Gallery; Bristol, City Art Gallery, and Edinburgh, National Gallery of Modern Art, Arshile Gorky: Drawings, Dec. 1964-May 1965, organized under the auspices of The International Council of The Museum of Modern Art (illustrated on cover).
London, The Tate Gallery; Brussels, Palais des Beaux Arts, and Rotterdam, Museum Boymans van Beuningen, Arshile Gorky, Apr.-Aug. 1965, no. 82 (illustrated).
Vienna, Museum des 20 Jahrhunderts, Arshile Gorky, Sept.-Oct. 1965, p. 23, no. 50 (illustrated).
Zagreb, Galerie Grada Zagreba, Arshile Gorky, June-July 1966.
New York, M. Knoedler & Co., Inc., Arshile Gorky Works on Paper, Jan.-Feb. 1975.
Amarillo Art Center, Abstract Expressionists, 1977, no. 5.
New York, The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, Arshile Gorky: A Retrospective, Apr.-July 1981, no. 218 (illustrated).
Newport Beach, Newport Harbor Art Museum; New York, Whitney Museum of American Art, and Minneapolis, Walker Art Center, The Interpretive Link: Abstract Surrealism into Abstract Expressionism, Works on Paper 1938-1948, July 1986-Apr. 1987, p. 79, no. 22. (illustrated).
Madrid, Sala de Exposiciones de la Fundación Caja de Pensiones, and London, Whitechapel Art Gallery, Arshile Gorky 1904-1948, Oct. 1989-Mar. 1990, p. 153, no. 89 (illustrated).
New York, Gagosian Gallery, Arshile Gorky: Late Paintings, Jan.-Mar. 1994, pp. 40-41 (illustrated).

拍品专文

Study for Agony I is one of approximately six preparatory drawings which relate to one of Gorky's most important paintings, Agony I, 1947 (Collection of The Museum of Modern Art, New York). According to Harry Rand, 'Between 1946 and 1047 Gorky produced a series of works on the theme he called Agony, which Ethel Schwabacher described as dealing with the "battle of the sexes"' (H. Rand, Arshile Gorky: The Implications of Symbols, Montclair 1981, p. 203).