Mannikin

For a number of years this print was thought to be Gorky's only lithograph, pulled in only one impression However, as Jo Miller discovered, the edition of Mannikin was twenty-five. Gorky created two other lithographs as well as a serigraph in the course of his career. The lithographs were all probably produced around 1931 during a period when Picasso's influence was dominant in Gorky's work. In the late 1920s Stuart Davis and Gorky were close friends; the striped, curvilinear forms in this print are reminiscent of Davis's graphic style.

Master Prints of Five Centuries: The Alan and Marianne Schwartz Collection, Detroit Institute of Arts, 1990, n. 36, p. 64.