
Art Institute of Chicago
Untitled
Arshile Gorky · 1945–46
Provenance
Ownership history
- Estate of the artist, to at least 1966 [Levy 1966]. Harold Diamond, New York, probably after 1966 [fax of April 26, 1995, from Jeanne Havemeyer of B. C. Holland, Inc., to Adam Jolles]; sold to B. C. Holland, Chicago, 1976; sold to Lindy and Edwin Bergman, Chicago, 1976; given to the Art Institute of Chicago, 2018.
Recorded by Art Institute of Chicago.
Exhibitions
Exhibition history
- New York, Museum of Modern Art (organizer), "Drawings by Arshile Gorky," 1963-1968; shown in New Orleans, Tulane University, Newcomb College, Sept. 23-Oct.14, 1962.; Chatham College, Pittsburgh, Oct. 29-Nov. 19, 1962; Watkins Institute, Nashville, Jan. 9-30, 1963; Spiva Art Center, Joplin, Mo., Feb. 7-28, 1963; Smith College Museum of Art, Northampton, Mass. Mar. 15-Apr. 15, 1963; Tokyo, Seibu Department Store, July 26-Aug. 11, 1963, cat. 35; Marshall College, Huntington, W. Va., Apr. 22-May 13, 1963; Westmar College, LeMars, Iowa, Sept. 2-23, 1963; Washington University, St. Louis, Mo., Oct. 4-23, 1963; Chicago, Arts Club, Nov. 10-Dec. 15, 1963; Indiana University, Bloomington, Ind., Jan. 2-23, 1964; Wells College, Aurora, N.Y., Feb. 7-28, 1964; Northern Illinois University, DeKalb, Ill., Mar. 16-Apr. 6, 1964; the Jewish Museum, New York, Apr. 21-June 22, 1964; Karlsruhe, Badischer Kunstverein, July 8-Aug. 2, 1964, cat. 35 (ill.); Hamburg, Hamburger Kunstverein, Aug. 7-Sept. 4, 1964, cat. 35 (ill.); Berlin, Amerika Haus, Sept.11-Oct. 6, 1964, cat. 35 (ill.); Essen, Folkwang Museum, Oct. 15-Nov. 15, 1964, cat. 35 (ill.); York, England, City Art Gallery, Dec. 5-30, 1964, cat. 36 (ill.); London, Institute of Contemporary Arts, Jan. 6-Feb. 13, 1965, cat. 36 (ill.); Nottingham, Midland Group Gallery, Feb. 20-Mar. 6, 1965, cat. 36 (ill.) Bristol City Art Gallery, Mar. 13-Apr. 3, 1965, cat. 36 (ill.); Edinburgh, National Gallery of Modern Art, Apr. 10-May 1, 1965, cat. 36 (ill.); Brussels, Palais des beaux arts, May 21-June 27, 1965; Rotterdam, Museum Boymans-Van-Beuningen, July 24-Sept. 5, 1965, cat. 97; Vienna, Museum des 20. Jahrhunderts, Sept. 18-Oct. 17, 1965, cat. 35; Lisbon, Sociedad nacional de belas artes, Galeria de arte moderna, Nov. 23-Dec. 23, 1965, cat. 35; Oslo, Kunstnernes Hus, Jan. 22-Feb. 13, 1966, cat. 35; Lund, Sweden, Lunds Konsthall, Mar. 5-28, 1966, cat. 35; Basel, Kupferstichkabinett der öffentlichen Kunstsammlung, Apr. 30-June 5, 1966, cat. 38; Zagreb, Galerija Suvremene Umjetnosti, June 21-July 10, 1966, cat. 38; Belgrade, Galerija Doma Omladine, Oct. 6-16, 1966; Rome, Galleria nazionale d'arte moderna, Apr. 2-May 15, 1967, cat. 39 (ill. upside down); Buenos Aires, Centro de artes visuales del instituto Torcuato Di Tella, Nov. 29-Dec. 23, 1967, cat. 38; Caracas, Museo de bellas artes, Jan. 21-Feb.14, 1968, cat. 38; Bogotá, Biblioteca Luis-Angel Arango del banco de la república, Mar. 26-Apr. 14, 1968, cat. 38; and Mexico City, Universidad nacional autónoma de México, Museo universitario de ciencias y arte, May-June 1968, cat. 38.
- New York, M. Knoedler and Company, "Gorky: Drawings," Nov. 25-Dec. 27, 1969, pp. 52 and 61, cat. 143 (ill.), cat. by Jim M. Jordan.
- Chicago, Museum of Contemporary Art, "Drawings by Five Abstract Expressionist Painters," Jan. 10-Feb. 29, 1976.
- New York, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, "Arshile Gorky, 1904-1948: A Retrospective," Apr. 24-July 19, 1981, cat. 192 (ill.), cat. by Diane Waldman; also the Dallas Museum of Fine Arts, Sept. 11-Nov. 8, 1981, and the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Dec. 3, 1981-Feb. 28, 1982.
- Chicago, Museum of Contemporary Art, "Dada and Surrealism in Chicago Collections," Dec 1, 1984-Jan. 27, 1985, p. 152 (ill.), as "Study for the Betrothal."
- Art Institute of Chicago, "A Tribute to Edwin A. Bergman (1917–1986): Selections from the Lindy and Edwin Bergman Collection," 1986, pamphlet no. 24, as "Untitled (Study for the Betrothal)."
Literature
Published references
- Julien Levy, Arshile Gorky (New York, 1966), pl. 139.
- William S. Rubin, Dada and Surrealist Art (New York, 1968), p. 404 (ill.).
- José Pierre, L'aventure surréaliste autour d'André Breton, exh. cat. (Paris, 1986), p. 98 (ill.).
- Dawn Ades, Surrealist Art: The Lindy and Edwin Bergman Collection at The Art Institute of Chicago, (Chicago, New York and London, 1997), pp. 144-145, no. 74 (ill.).
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