Catalogue Number
JJ347

Pastoral (Pastorale)

1947

Oil on canvas

44 in. x 56 3/4 in. (111.8 cm x 144.2 cm)

Signed and dated right side at center: A. Gorky / 47

Private Collection

Pastoral (Pastorale)
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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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Julien Levy Gallery, New York.  Arshile Gorky. 29 February - 20 March 1948. (1)

The Museum of Modern Art, New York.  Arshile Gorky, 1904-1948.  19 December 1962 - 12 February 1963.  Traveled to the Washington Gallery of Modern Art, Washington, DC, 12 March - 14 April 1963.  Catalogue, no. 116.  

M. Knoedler & Co., Inc., New York.  Gorky, de Kooning, Newman.  26 June - 20 September 1969.  Checklist, no. 7.

Xavier Fourcade, Inc., New York.  Arshile Gorky: Important Paintings and Drawings.  3 - 28 April 1979.  Catalogue, color 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. 227, color ill.

Gagosian Gallery, London.  Arshile Gorky.  10 February - 1 April 2010.  Catalogue, color ill. p. 43.

Gagosian Gallery, New York.  Arshile Gorky: 1947.  6 May - 1 July 2011. 

 

(1) Pastoral is listed as no. 4 on the price list for this exhibition.  Julien Levy papers, Philadelphia Museum of Art, Archives. 

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Lisa Corrin. “Toward Armenia: Notes on a Journey” in Arshile Gorky, 1904-1948.  Exhibition Catalogue.  London: Whitechapel Art Gallery, 1990, b/w ill. p. 178.  

Clement Greenberg.  “Art.” The Nation 166 (20 March 1948), p. 332, discussed.

Jim M. Jordan and Robert Goldwater.  The Paintings of Arshile Gorky: A Critical Catalogue.  New York and London: New York University Press, 1982, no. 347, b/w ill.

M. Knoedler & Co., Inc., New York.  Gorky: Drawings.  25 November - 27 December 1969.  Catalogue, fig. 7, b/w ill. 

Julien Levy.  Arshile Gorky.  New York: Harry N. Abrams, Inc., 1966, no. 200, b/w ill.

Harry Rand.  Arshile Gorky: The Implication of Symbols.  Montclair, NJ: Allanheld & Schram; London: George Prior, 1980, Fig. 12-14, b/w ill. 

Matthew Spender. “Origines et Développement de L’oeuvre Dessiné de Arshile Gorky / Quellen und Entwicklung von Arshile Gorky’s Zeichnerischem Werk,” in Arshile Gorky: Œuvres sur Papier, 1929-1947 / Arbeiten auf Papier, 1929-1947. Exhibition catalogue. Lausanne: Musée cantonal des Beaux-Arts, 1990, fig. 20, b/w ill.