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Catalogue Number
ML944

Untitled (Portrait of Mougouch)

After January 1940

Pencil on buff paper (creased down left side)

9 7/16 in. x 12 3/8 in. (24 cm x 31.5 cm)

Unsigned and undated

Private Collection

Untitled (Portrait of Mougouch)
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© The Arshile Gorky Foundation / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York. Photo: Colin Mills

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Estate of Arshile Gorky

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Although undated, this drawing was completed after January 1940, when Gorky met the subject of the portrait, his second wife Agnes “Mougouch” Magruder.  The drawing is very faint, suggesting that the graphite may have been washed off or erased.