Arshile Gorky (1904-1948), Study for Agony

Arshile Gorky (1904-1948)
Study for Agony
signed by the artist's widow Agnes Gorky Fielding 'A. Gorky' (lower right)
graphite and wax crayon on paper
12 ½ x 19 in. (31.7 x 48.2 cm.)
Drawn circa 1946-1947.

Provenance
Allan Stone Gallery, New York
Donald Morris Gallery, Detroit
Steingrim Laursen, Copenhagen, by 1981
Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Humlebaek
Private collection
By descent from the above to the present owner

Exhibited
Los Angeles, Everett Ellin Gallery, Arshile Gorky: Forty Drawings from the Period 1929 through 1947, April-May 1962, no. 31 (illustrated).
New York, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum; Dallas Museum of Fine Arts and Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Arshile Gorky, 1904-1948: A Retrospective, April 1981-February 1982, n.p., no. 216 (illustrated).
Marseille, Centre de la Vieille Charité, La Planète Affolée: Surréalisme: Dispersion et Influences: 1938 – 1947, April-June 1986, n.p., no. 106 (illustrated).
Gran Canaria, Centro Atlántico de Arte Moderno, El Surrealismo entre Viejo y Nuevo Mundo, December 1989–February 1990, p. 229 (illustrated).

Post Lot Text
This work is recorded in the Arshile Gorky Foundation Archives under number D1477.