Study for Nighttime, Enigma and Nostalgia

1934

Arshile Gorky

Artist, American, born Van Province, Ottoman Empire (now Turkey), c. 1904 - 1948

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    pen and black ink on wove paper

  • Credit Line

    Gift of Ruth Cole Kainen

  • Dimensions

    sheet: 40.01 × 57.15 cm (15 3/4 × 22 1/2 in.)

  • Accession

    2012.92.502

  • Catalogue Raisonné

    Costello,No.D0146

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

Gift of the artist to Jacob Kainen, Washington, D.C., 1934. Joseph Solman, New York, c. 1960. (Allan Stone Gallery, New York). (Richard Gray Gallery, Chicago); Dorothy Rautbord, Chicago; (Christie's, New York, May 13, 1998, lot 115); (via Jem Hom Fine Art, Washington, D.C.); Ruth Cole Kainen, Washington, D.C.; bequest to NGA, 2012.

Associated Names

Exhibition History

1973

  • Twentieth-Century Drawings from Chicago Collections, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, September 15–November 11, 1973, as "Nighttime and Nostalgia".

2014

  • Modern American Prints and Drawings from the Kainen Collection, National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, 2014-2015

Bibliography

1976

  • Kainen, Jacob. "Memories of Arshile Gorky." Arts Magazine 50, (1976): 96.

Inscriptions

upper right verso in pen and brown ink by unknown hand: Arshile Gorky 1934 / Collection: Jacob Kainen / received from the artist, 1934

Markings

None.

Watermarks

None.

Wikidata ID

Q64536493

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