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Catalogue Number
ML1

Untitled (Self-Portrait)

c.1928-1929

Pastel and graphite on paper

14 1/4 in. x 11 1/4 in. (36.2 cm x 28.58 cm)

Unsigned and undated

Collection of Harry W. and Mary Margaret Anderson

Untitled (Self-Portrait)
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© The Arshile Gorky Foundation / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York. Photo: Lee Fatherree

expandProvenance

The artist
Helen J. Ranyi Austin (Mrs. Nat Austin), New York
[James Corcoran, New York, and Nick Wilder, Los Angeles]
[James Corcoran Gallery, Los Angeles]
Mr. and Mrs. Anderson, 1977

expandExhibition History

Achenbach Foundation for Graphic Arts, California Palace of the Legion of Honor, San Francisco, CA.  Graphic Arts Council Members Exhibition. 19 January - 5 March 1978.  Checklist, no. 31, not 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, 11 September - 8 November, 1981; Los Angeles County Museum of Art, 3 December 1981 - 28 February 1982.  Catalogue, no. 11, b/w ill.

Stanford University Museum of Art, Stanford, CA.  Twentieth-Century Drawings from the Anderson Collection. 15 November 1988 - 19 February 1989.  Catalogue, no. 18, color ill. on cover.

Sala de Exposiciones de la Fundación Caja de Pensiones, Madrid.  Arshile Gorky. 17 October - 15 December 1989. Traveled to Whitechapel Art Gallery, London, 19 January 1990 - 25 March 1990.  Catalogue, no. 51, color ill.

San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, CA.  Celebrating Modern Art: The Anderson Collection.  7 October 2000 - 15 January 2001.  Catalogue, no. 100, color plate no. 185.

Gagosian Gallery, New York.  Arshile Gorky: Portraits.  20 March - 27 April 2002.  Catalogue, color ill. p. 39.

Whitney Museum of American Art, New York.  Arshile Gorky: A Retrospective of Drawings.  20 November 2003 - 15 February 2004.  Traveled to the Menil Collection, Houston, 5 March - 9 May 2004.  Catalogue, no. 60, color ill.; also reproduced on back cover of dust jacket.

expandBibliography

David Bonetti. “Journey to the New.” San Francisco Examiner Magazine, 10 September 2000, b/w ill., p. 12.

Patricia C. Johnson. “Exhibit Reveals Gorky’s Genius: Menil Collection Shows 140 of Artist’s Works,” Houston Chronicle, 6 March 2004, color ill., p. 9D.

Nouritza Matossian. Black Angel: The Life of Arshile Gorky.  London: Chatto & Windus, 1998; Woodstock & New York: The Overlook Press, 2000, b/w ill, p.111.