Catalogue Number
JJ15

Pears, Peaches, and Pitcher

c.1926-1927

Oil on canvas

17 3/8 in. x 23 3/8 in. (44 cm x 59.5 cm)

Unsigned and undated

Private Collection

Pears, Peaches, and Pitcher
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© The Arshile Gorky Foundation / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York. Photo: Peter Schälchli

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Estate of Arshile Gorky

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Tate Gallery, London, Arts Council 1965.  Arshile Gorky, Paintings and Drawings.  2 April - 2 May 1965.  Traveled to Palais des Beaux-Arts, Brussels, 22 May - 27 June 1965; Museum Boymans van Beuningen, Rotterdam, Netherlands, 24 July - 5 September 1965.  Catalogue, no. 1, b/w ill. Rotterdam venue catalogue, no. 1, b/w ill.

Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York. Arshile Gorky 1904 - 1948: A Retrospective.  24 April - 19 July 1981.  Traveled to Dallas Museum of Fine Arts, TX, 11 September - 8 November, 1981; Los Angeles County Museum of Art, CA, 3 December 1981 - 28 February 1982.  Catalogue, no. 15, color ill.

Philadelphia Museum of Art, PA.  Arshile Gorky: A Retrospective.  15 October 2009 - 10 January 2010.  Traveled to Tate Modern, London, 10 February - 3 May 2010; Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, CA, 6 June - 20 September 2010.  Catalogue, no. 7, color ill.  London venue catalogue, no. 8, color ill.

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Jim M. Jordan and Robert Goldwater.  The Paintings of Arshile Gorky: A Critical Catalogue.  New York and London: New York University Press, 1982, no. 15, b/w ill.

Melvin P. Lader.  Arshile Gorky.  New York: Abbeville Press, 1985, no. 13, color ill.

Matthew Spender.  From a High Place: A Life of Arshile Gorky.  New York: A.A. Knopf, 1999; Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 2000, b/w ill. p. 70.

Hayden Herrera. Arshile Gorky: His Life and Work.  New York: Farrar, Straus, and Giroux, 2003, fig. 2, color ill. 

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The title of this painting, which is simply descriptive in nature, has appeared as both Peaches, Pears, Pitcher and Peaches, Pears, and Pitcher in the existing literature.