Catalogue Number
JJ253

Garden in Sochi Motif

1942

Oil on canvas

16 in. x 20 in. (40.6 cm x 50.8 cm)

Lower left: “A. Gorky / 17-4-42

Private Collection

Garden in Sochi Motif
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© The Arshile Gorky Foundation / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York. Photo: Peter Schälchli

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The Estate of Arshile Gorky

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Sidney Janis Gallery, New York. 33 Paintings by Arshile Gorky.  2 - 28 December 1957.  Catalogue, no. 8, b/w ill.

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. Rotterdam venue catalogue, no. 49 [as Garden in Sochi]. *This work did not appear in the London venue catalogue.

Sala de Exposiciones de la Fundación Caja de Pensiones, Madrid.  Arshile Gorky, 1904-1948.  17 October - 23 December 1989.  Traveled to Whitechapel Art Gallery, London, 19 January - 25 March 1990.  Catalogue, no. 30, color ill.

Gagosian Gallery, New York.  Arshile Gorky: Paintings and Drawings, 1929 - 1942.  27 October 1998 - 9 January 1999.  Catalogue, color ill. p.51.

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. 96, color ill.  London venue catalogue, no. 23, 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. 253, b/w ill.

Julien Levy.  Arshile Gorky.  New York: Harry N. Abrams, Inc., 1966, p. 13, plate 83, b/w ill.

Harold Rosenberg.  Arshile Gorky: The Man, the Time, the Idea.  New York: Horizon Press, 1962; New York: Grove Press, Inc., 1962, pp. 82-83.

Ethel Schwabacher.  Arshile Gorky.  New York: The Macmillan Company for the Whitney Museum of American Art, 1957, fig. 29, b/w ill.

William C. Seitz.  Arshile Gorky; Paintings, Drawings, Studies.  Exhibition Catalogue.  New York: The Museum of Modern Art, 1962, p. 28.