Arshile Gorky Paintings & Artwork for Sale | Arshile Gorky Art Value Price Guide

Jul. 18, 2024
Arshile Gorky - The Liver is the Cock's Comb - 1991 Serigraph 16" x 20"
Est: $625 - $775
"The Liver is the Cock's Comb" by Arshile Gorky, 1991 Unsigned Serigraph. Paper size is 16 x 20 inches, with an image size of 11.75 x 15.75 inches. The Serigraph is from an edition size of 500 and is not framed. The condition was rated A: Mint. Additional details: Museum Reproduction Edition Serigraph printed by Editions Limited in 1991 and Published by Gallery A.P. J. Graphic Station. Copyrighted Buffalo Fine Arts Academy, 1991 and from the Albright-Knox Art Gallery Collection.
DUMBO Auctions
Jun. 29, 2024
ATTRIBUTED TO ARSHILE GORKY (ARMENIAN-AMERICAN 1904-1948)
Est: $15,000 - $20,000
ATTRIBUTED TO ARSHILE GORKY (ARMENIAN-AMERICAN 1904-1948) Allegory Series, 1936 color pencil on paper 16.7 x 24.8 cm (6 1/2 x 9 3/4 in.) unframed signed and dated lower middle EXPERTISE National Academy of Sciences, Republic of Armenia, dated June 7, 2011, experts Avenasov, Stepanyan, Sarukhanyan, Karapetyan, Harutunyan, and Bagdassarian (contact us for a copy of the expertise)
Shapiro Auctions LLC
May. 22, 2024
Arshile Gorky, Untitled (Standing Female Figure)
Est: $12,000 - $18,000
Arshile Gorky Untitled (Standing Female Figure) c. 1931 ink on paper 13.5 h x 11.75 w in (34 x 30 cm) Signed to verso 'Gorky'. Provenance: The Artist | Acquired from the previous in 1932, Julien Levy Gallery, New York | Bernard and Rebecca "Becky" Reis, New York | Thence by descent to Barbara (Reis) Poe Levee, Los Angeles | Thence by descent Literature: Costello D1510 This work will ship from Los Angeles, California.
Rago Arts and Auction Center
May. 15, 2024
ARSHILE GORKY 1904-1948 Agony, Motif 1946 - ARSHILE GORKY 1904-1948 Agony, Motif 1946
Est: €8,000 - €15,000
Inchiostro, penna e pastello a cera su carta. 25,60 x 23,00 cm Opera archiviata presso The Arshile Gorky Foundation, New York. Opera accompagnata da autentica su fotografia della Galleria Blu, Milano. - Ink, pen and wax crayon on paper. 10.08 x 9.06 in. Work archived at The Arshile Gorky Foundation, New York. Work accompanied by certificate of authenticity on photograph issued by the Galleria Blu, Milan.
Aste Bolaffi
May. 08, 2024
Arshile (Vosdanig Manoog Adoian) Gorky
Est: $5,000 - $7,000
Armenian/American, 1904-1948 Untitled, circa 1938-43 Inscribed Merry Christmas / Agnes + Arshile / Gorky on the reverse crayon on paper 5 3/8 x 7 1/8 inches (13.7 x 18.1 cm) Provenance: The artist William Muschenheim, New York, gift from the above circa 1945 Thence by descent in the family This work is recorded in the Arshile Gorky Catalogue Raisonné as number D0820 (Framed 9 1/2 x 11 1/2 inches) Two small tears, one along the left edge, the other along the bottom edge toward the right corner, each approximately 1/2 inch; tape and adhesive remnants on the reverse; minor staining.
DOYLE Auctioneers & Appraisers
May. 07, 2024
1981 Arshile Gorky Retrospective Poster
Est: $50 - $100
1981 poster for a retrospective exhibition of the work of Arshile Gorky (American, 1904-1948), 31 1/4" x 21 1/2" sight size, 32 1/2" x 23 1/4" framed.
Old Kinderhook Auction Company
Apr. 27, 2024
ARSHILLE GORKY (ATTR) ARMENIAN/AMERICAN 1904-1948
Est: $3,500 - $5,000
Untitled (Abstract Forms), crayon and pencil, 10 3/4 x 7 3/4 in (27.3 x 19.7 cm), framed 18 x 22 in (45.7 x 55.9 cm), signed lower right, dated 1943 PROVENANCE: Private collector Mamaroneck, NY
Trinity International Auctions & Appraisals, LLC
Apr. 13, 2024
Attributed : Arshile Gorky (AMERICAN, 1904–1948)
Est: $200 - $400
Attributed : Arshile Gorky (AMERICAN, 1904–1948). Size: 24"h x 18"w. Attributed watercolor, ink, and gouache painting on paper. Signed lower right.
Joshua Kodner
Mar. 30, 2024
Collection of 3 art posters: Robert Indiana, Jasper Johns, Arshile Gorky 25 1/2"H x 19 1/2"W (jasper johns) 24"H x 19 1/2"W (Robert IN), 27"H x 21"W (Arshile)
Est: $160 - $300
Collection of 3 art posters: Robert Indiana, Jasper Johns, Arshile Gorky Robert E. Indiana (American, 1928-2018) The American Gasworks Jasper Johns (American, b. 1930) Flag on Orange Field Arshile (Vosdanig Manoog Adoian) Gorky (Armenian-American, 1904 - 1948) After Xhorkum, The Art Institute of Chicago
Ripley Auctions
Mar. 07, 2024
Arshile Gorky (Armenian/American, 1904-1948) Untitled (Study for Pirate), 1942
Est: $30,000 - $50,000
Arshile Gorky (Armenian/American, 1904-1948) Untitled (Study for Pirate), 1942 ink on paper signed A. Gorky and dated (upper right) 10 1/2 x 13 1/2 inches. Property from a Private Collection Provenance: The Artist Serge and Barbara Chermayeff, New York, 1942-1946 Marlborough-Gerson Gallery, New York Richard L. Feigen & Co., New York The Collection of the Stare Family, purchased from the above, 1970 Hirschl & Adler Galleries, New York Nancy Singer, Clayton, Missouri Exhibited: Chicago, Illinois, Museum of Contemporary Art, Twentieth-Century Drawings from Chicago Collections, September 15 -November 11, 1973 (as Untitled) This work is recorded in the Arshile Gorky catalogue raisonné under entry no. D0921, as Untitled. Lot Essay: Abstraction allows man to see with his mind what he cannot see physically with his eyes....Abstract art enables the artist to perceive beyond the tangible, to extract the infinite out of the finite. It is the emancipation of the mind. It is an exploration into unknown areas. -- Arshile Gorky, (Armenian/American, 1904-1948) The Old Pirate, as described by Arshile Gorky to his gallerist, Julien Levy, was a mongrel dog who frequently traipsed into his yard. His crossings (and likely haggard looks) earned him his nickname. The problem with this, Levy would later note, was that at the time Gorky had no yard, nor any neighbors with dogs. The Pirate in question was then most likely a visitor of the farm belonging to Saul Schary in New Milford, Connecticut, where Gorky would spend several weeks at the end of 1942 and experience a major stylistic redirection evident throughout the remainder of his career. Indeed, there is a dog. Untitled (Study for the Pirate), 1942, features a wide-headed creature, all snarls and quizzical eyebrows, that would appear slightly camouflaged in the ensuing finished painting, The Pirate, and then appear again later in its companion work, an even more colorfully lucid The Pirate II. Gorky, born Vosdanik Adoian in the village of Khorkom, Armenia, suffered ethnic persecution following the Turkish invasion and fled to Russian-occupied territory. His mother died in front of him from starvation on a march in 1919. A year later, at sixteen, Gorky emigrated to the United States, though the loss and trauma he experienced in his formative years would critically influence him as an artist and human. In reinventing his identity, Gorky changed his name, claiming to be a Georgian noble and becoming increasingly vague about his year of birth. He was heavily influenced by the likes of Picasso, Cézanne, Matta, Léger, and Miró -- enough to be teased about the similarities in his work -- before finally arriving at his own signature style, a true master of reinvention in all senses. He gained the approval of André Breton, the self-appointed Father of Surrealism, and began spending time in rural Connecticut where he explored childhood memories and organic themes of camouflage and concealment. These new works contained mythical motifs, free-floating, loose biomorphic forms both anatomical and floral – and a frequent visitor, a certain old mongrel Pirate. The connection to Breton gave him the opportunity to obtain a contract with Julien Levy, who would remain his gallerist until Gorky’s untimely death. His work would come to be collected by notable institutions such as the Whitney Museum of American Art, the Museum of Modern Art, Joseph H. Hirshhorn and Peggy Guggenheim, among others. After a brutal series of personal tragedies, Gorky died by suicide in 1948. His contributions to the art world and visual communication are difficult to overestimate. Though Gorky has been called the last Surrealist and first Abstract Expressionist, the sketches he prepared for his paintings were evidence of careful planning and a lack of spontaneous automatism that would have barred his true entry into either group. Instead, Gorky’s works sit somewhere in between, narrative and sensitive, careful in their honesty and evolving from an entirely new language of his own invention.
Hindman
Feb. 27, 2024
Arshile Gorky (Armenian/American, 1904-1948) - Self Portrait
Est: $8,000 - $12,000
Arshile Gorky (Armenian/American, 1904-1948) - Self Portrait Inscribed verso ‘Self Portrait/from a photo of 1911/painting 1926-29/Whitney Museum (artist and his mother)', pencil on paper 11 7/8 x 9 in. (30.2 x 22.9cm) Executed circa 1926. Provenance The Artist. Mr. and Mrs. Hans Burkhardt. Parke-Bernet, New York, sale of April 20, 1977, lot 264. (Presumably) acquired directly from the above sale. The Collection of Sidney Rothberg, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Exhibition “Arshile Gorky: Paintings & Drawings, 1927-1937, the Collection of Mr. & Mrs. Hans Burkhardt,” La Jolla Museum of Art, La Jolla, California and traveling, 1963, no. 23. Literature “Arshile Gorky: Paintings & Drawings, 1927-1937, the Collection of Mr. & Mrs. Hans Burkhardt,” an exhibition catalogue, La Jolla Museum of Art, La Jolla, California, 1963, n.p., no. 23 (illustrated). Lot Essay The drawing will be reviewed at the next meeting of the Arshile Gorky Catalogue Raisonné examination committee for inclusion in the catalogue.
Freeman's | Hindman
Dec. 14, 2023
ARSHILE GORKY (1904-1948) Untitled [Study, after Picasso’s “Carnet Dinard”]
Est: $25,000 - $35,000
ARSHILE GORKY (1904-1948) Untitled [Study, after Picasso’s “Carnet Dinard”] and... double-sided—India ink on paper 10 x 13 in. (25.4 x 33 cm.)
Christie's
Nov. 16, 2023
ARSHILE GORKY (1904-1948) Nighttime, Enigma, and Nostalgia; Head of a Woman in Profile circa 1932-1934
Est: $60,000 - $80,000
ARSHILE GORKY (1904-1948) Nighttime, Enigma, and Nostalgia; Head of a Woman in Profile circa 1932-1934 graphite on paper 22 by 30 7/8 in. 58.1 by 78.4 cm. This work was executed circa 1932-1934.
Bonhams
Nov. 09, 2023
ARSHILE GORKY (1904-1948) Charred Beloved I oil on canvas 53 ½ x 39 ¾ in. (
Est: -
ARSHILE GORKY (1904-1948) Charred Beloved I oil on canvas 53 ½ x 39 ¾ in. (135.9 x 101 cm.) Estimate on request
Christie's
Nov. 07, 2023
ARSHILE GORKY 1904-1948 Untitled 1954
Est: €8,000 - €15,000
Ink, pen and wax crayon on paper. 10.08 x 9.06 in.
Aste Bolaffi
Oct. 30, 2023
Attr. To Arshile Gorky (1904â1948) Wax On Paper
Est: $200 - $2,000
DESCRIPTION: Wax on paper attributed to Arshile Gorky depicting abstract shapes, forms, and line work. Signed at lower right and mounted in a wooden frame. CIRCA: Early 20th Century ORIGIN: Turkey DIMENSIONS: WIth frame - H: 17.25" W: 1.5" L: 16.25" Without frame - H: 12.25" L: 11" CONDITION: Minor discoloration of paper consistent with age and use
Akiba Galleries
Oct. 29, 2023
Arshile Gorky - Untitled
Est: $100 - $120
Arshile Gorky - Untitled, 27.5 x 39, some creases along the edges of the print (can be trim), good condition
Bruce Teleky Inc.
Oct. 15, 2023
Arshile Gorky - Untitled
Est: $100 - $120
Arshile Gorky - Untitled, 27.5 x 39, some creases along the edges of the print (can be trim), good condition
Bruce Teleky Inc.
Sep. 28, 2023
Arshile Gorky (Armenian/American, 1904-1948) Untitled (Study for Pirate), 1942
Est: $80,000 - $120,000
Arshile Gorky (Armenian/American, 1904-1948) Untitled (Study for Pirate), 1942 ink on paper signed A. Gorky and dated (upper right) 10 1/2 x 13 1/2 inches. Property from a Private Collection Provenance: The Artist Serge and Barbara Chermayeff, New York, 1942-1946 Marlborough-Gerson Gallery, New York Richard L. Feigen & Co., New York The Collection of the Stare Family, purchased from the above, 1970 Hirschl & Adler Galleries, New York Nancy Singer, Clayton, Missouri Exhibited: Chicago, Illinois, Museum of Contemporary Art, Twentieth-Century Drawings from Chicago Collections, September 15 -November 11, 1973 (as Untitled) This work is recorded in the Arshile Gorky catalogue raisonné under entry no. D0921, as Untitled. Lot Essay: Abstraction allows man to see with his mind what he cannot see physically with his eyes....Abstract art enables the artist to perceive beyond the tangible, to extract the infinite out of the finite. It is the emancipation of the mind. It is an exploration into unknown areas. -- Arshile Gorky, (Armenian/American, 1904-1948) The Old Pirate, as described by Arshile Gorky to his gallerist, Julien Levy, was a mongrel dog who frequently traipsed into his yard. His crossings (and likely haggard looks) earned him his nickname. The problem with this, Levy would later note, was that at the time Gorky had no yard, nor any neighbors with dogs. The Pirate in question was then most likely a visitor of the farm belonging to Saul Schary in New Milford, Connecticut, where Gorky would spend several weeks at the end of 1942 and experience a major stylistic redirection evident throughout the remainder of his career. Indeed, there is a dog. Untitled (Study for the Pirate), 1942, features a wide-headed creature, all snarls and quizzical eyebrows, that would appear slightly camouflaged in the ensuing finished painting, The Pirate, and then appear again later in its companion work, an even more colorfully lucid The Pirate II. Gorky, born Vosdanik Adoian in the village of Khorkom, Armenia, suffered ethnic persecution following the Turkish invasion and fled to Russian-occupied territory. His mother died in front of him from starvation on a march in 1919. A year later, at sixteen, Gorky emigrated to the United States, though the loss and trauma he experienced in his formative years would critically influence him as an artist and human. In reinventing his identity, Gorky changed his name, claiming to be a Georgian noble and becoming increasingly vague about his year of birth. He was heavily influenced by the likes of Picasso, Cézanne, Matta, Léger, and Miró -- enough to be teased about the similarities in his work -- before finally arriving at his own signature style, a true master of reinvention in all senses. He gained the approval of André Breton, the self-appointed Father of Surrealism, and began spending time in rural Connecticut where he explored childhood memories and organic themes of camouflage and concealment. These new works contained mythical motifs, free-floating, loose biomorphic forms both anatomical and floral – and a frequent visitor, a certain old mongrel Pirate. The connection to Breton gave him the opportunity to obtain a contract with Julien Levy, who would remain his gallerist until Gorky’s untimely death. His work would come to be collected by notable institutions such as the Whitney Museum of American Art, the Museum of Modern Art, Joseph H. Hirshhorn and Peggy Guggenheim, among others. After a brutal series of personal tragedies, Gorky died by suicide in 1948. His contributions to the art world and visual communication are difficult to overestimate. Though Gorky has been called the last Surrealist and first Abstract Expressionist, the sketches he prepared for his paintings were evidence of careful planning and a lack of spontaneous automatism that would have barred his true entry into either group. Instead, Gorky’s works sit somewhere in between, narrative and sensitive, careful in their honesty and evolving from an entirely new language of his own invention.
Hindman
Sep. 02, 2023
1946 AMERICAN ABSTRACT PAINTING ATTR ARSHILE GORKY
Est: $100 - $150
Mixed media painting on paper attributed to Arshile Gorky. Arshile Gorky, born Vostanik Manoug Adoian, 1904 to 1948, was an Armenian-American painter who had a strong influence on Abstract Expressionism. The artwork is an abstract composition in black watercolor and color oil pastel. Dated 1946. Signed on the lower right. Wooden frame. Richard Feigen Company label on the backside. Collectible Mid Century American Abstract Graphic Art.
Antique Arena Inc
Jul. 18, 2023
After Arshile Gorky, Bull in the Sun carpet
Est: $4,000 - $6,000
After Arshile Gorky Bull in the Sun carpet V'Soske Armenia / USA, c. 1968 wool 121 h x 89 w in (307 x 226 cm) This V’Soske rug was designed after the design by Arshile Gorky for his contribution for New Rugs by American Artists, an exhibition at The Museum of Modern Art, New York 30 June - 9 August, 1942. Woven manufacturer's label to reverse 'V'Soske'. Provenance: V'Soske Inc., Grand Rapids, MI | Acquired from the previous in 1968 by the original owner | Private Collection This work will ship from Los Angeles, California.
Los Angeles Modern Auctions
Jul. 01, 2023
1946 AMERICAN ABSTRACT PAINTING BY ARSHILE GORKY
Est: $100 - $150
Mixed media painting on paper by Arshile Gorky, born Vostanik Manoug Adoian, 1904 to 1948, was an Armenian-American painter who had a strong influence on Abstract Expressionism. The artwork is an abstract composition in black watercolor and color oil pastel. Dated 1946. Signed by the artist in the lower right. Wooden frame. Richard Feigen Company label on the backside. Collectible Mid Century American Abstract Graphic Art.
Antique Arena Inc
May. 18, 2023
ARSHILE GORKY (1904-1948) Untitled (from the Fireplace in Virginia series)
Est: $600,000 - $800,000
ARSHILE GORKY (1904-1948) Untitled (from the Fireplace in Virginia series) graphite and crayon on paper 22 x 30 in. (55.8 x 76.2 cm.)
Christie's
May. 17, 2023
Arshile Gorky Armenian/American, 1904-1948 Untitled, 1946-47
Est: $20,000 - $40,000
Arshile Gorky Armenian/American, 1904-1948 Untitled, 1946-47 Ink wash and crayon on brown paper 11 x 8 1/2 inches (27.94 x 21.59 cm) Provenance: The artist Julien Levy Gallery (by 1948) Calvert Coggeshall, New York (Dec. 21, 1948 [Alan Auslander Gallery, New York (by 1966)] Allan Stone Gallery, New York (by 1980) Acquired from the above by the current owner This work is registered in the Arshile Gorky Catalog Raisonne as catalog entry D1300. C
DOYLE Auctioneers & Appraisers
May. 16, 2023
Portrait of Y.D.
Est: $3,000,000 - $5,000,000
Arshile Gorky 1904 - 1948 Portrait of Y.D. signed and dated 45 (upper right); signed again and inscribed Black Bells and Silent Lights (on the stretcher) oil on canvas 32 by 25 in. 81.3 by 63.5 cm. Executed in 1945.
Sotheby's
May. 12, 2023
ARSHILE GORKY (1904-1948) Untitled wax crayon and graphite on paper 18 5/8
Est: $400,000 - $600,000
ARSHILE GORKY (1904-1948) Untitled wax crayon and graphite on paper 18 5/8 x 23 1/2 in. (47.3 x 59.8 cm.)
Christie's
May. 12, 2023
ARSHILE GORKY (1904-1948) Untitled (Drawing) wax crayon and graphite on pap
Est: $200,000 - $300,000
ARSHILE GORKY (1904-1948) Untitled (Drawing) wax crayon and graphite on paper 19 1/2 x 24 5/8 in. (49.5 x 62.2 cm.)
Christie's
May. 11, 2023
ARSHILE GORKY (1904-1948) Untitled (The Horns of the Landscape) graphite an
Est: $500,000 - $700,000
ARSHILE GORKY (1904-1948) Untitled (The Horns of the Landscape) graphite and wax crayon on paper laid down on canvas 19 x 24 in. (48.3 x 61 cm.)
Christie's
Feb. 05, 2023
Arshile Gorky (1904-1948) "Raphael Soyer"
Est: $500 - $1,000
Arshile Gorky (Russian, 1904-1948) "Portrait of Raphael Soyer" Signed upper right, titled lower right. Pencil on Paper. Condition: Scattered foxing, staining under mat. Sight Size: 8.75 x 6.75 in. Overall Framed Size: 22 x 8 x 2.75 in. Framed behind glass.
Helmuth Stone
Jun. 01, 2022
Arshile Gorky, Untitled, 1946-1948
Est: €200,000 - €300,000
Unsigned.
Kunsthaus Lempertz KG
Jun. 01, 2022
Arshile Gorky, Untitled, 1946
Est: €80,000 - €100,000
Signed and dated 'A. Gorky 46' right in the image. Paper label verso with typographical work information. Photo confirmation from Agnes Gorky Philips (copy) In 1941 Arshile Gorky became one of the first artists in America to begin working with the European surrealists’ technique of “écriture automatique”. Other painters like Willem de Kooning followed his example from the mid-1940s. Until his early death in 1948, Gorky attempted to use this technique for converting the unconscious into an image to come to terms with his extremely emotionally charged memories of his native Armenia. His initially idyllic childhood in Armenia was extinguished by the systematic persecution, deportation and killing of the Armenian populace through the Ottoman military which began in 1915. His family was torn apart and his mother died as a refugee; the young Gorky succeeded in emigrating to the US with one of his sisters. His intensive nature studies of plants and animals represent an additional thematic complex that is fundamental to his work and is of a completely different character. These combine into biomorphic forms in his paintings and drawings and become unified with his visualisations of his traumatic memories. “The linear elements, spontaneously doodled, seem to meander, and the color areas are fluid and spill over the surface. As if possessed by memories and psychic pressures, Gorky improvised abstract amalgams of human, animal, and plant parts, a new order of ‘hybrid’ organisms, as Breton characterized them. […] Gorky was the first American avant-garde painter to recognize that ‘the vital task was a wedding of abstraction and surrealism’, as Adolph Gottlieb observed, and that ‘out of these opposites something new could emerge’” (Irving Sandler, Abstract Expressionism and the American Experience: a Reevaluation, Lenox/New York 2009, p. 76). As is rendered strikingly clear by the two drawings made available here, Arshile Gorky’s profoundly personal works contain dramatic as well as poetic elements and possess a balanced compositional beauty in spite of the largely spontaneous and unplanned action of their drawing.
Kunsthaus Lempertz KG
Mar. 26, 2022
Arshile Gorky (RUSSIA 1904-1948) Mixed Media/Paper
Est: $8,000 - $12,000
Arshile Gorky (RUSSIAN FEDERATION / UNITED STATES / NEW YORK / CONNECTICUT, 1904 - 1948) mixed media watercolor and ink on paper depicting an abstract scene. Signed upper left and dated 1947. Mounted in a low profile black painted wooden frame behind glass screen. Measures approx. 14 1/2" height x 19 1/2" width overall including frame. Portion of paper missing to upper left and small section to lower right.
Joshua Kodner
Mar. 10, 2022
ARSHILE GORKY Untitled.
Est: $10,000 - $15,000
ARSHILE GORKY Untitled. Etching, circa 1930. 127x98 mm; 5x3 7/8 inches. Signed and numbered 1/1 in pencil, lower margin. A superb impression of this exceedingly scarce, early etching. Gorky (1904-1948) was a profound figure in American art, celebrated for his blending of European Surrealism into Abstract Expressionism. He is considered one of the first Abstract Expressionists, paving the way to the movement with his highly original, lyrical and rhythmic compositions. Gorky, born as Vostanik Manoog Adoyanm, emigrated to the U.S. in 1920 and changed his name to escape the Armenian genocide. He studied at the New School of Design in Boston, and the Grand Central School of Art in New York. His work evolved drastically throughout his career as he studied the works of artists he admired, such as Pablo Picasso, Paul Cézanne and Joan Miró. Gorky stressed the importance of studying from the masters and came to his distinct style through years of continuous experimentation and innovation.
Swann Auction Galleries
Mar. 05, 2022
ARSHILLE GORKY ARMENIAN/AMERICAN 1904-1948
Est: $4,000 - $6,000
Abstract Still Life dated 1941, watercolor, 19 x 24 in (48.3 x 61 cm), signed lower right and dated, PROVENANCE: private collection Brooklyn, NY
Trinity International Auctions & Appraisals, LLC
Feb. 27, 2022
Arshile Gorky (1904-1948) "Raphael Soyer"
Est: $2,000 - $3,000
Arshile Gorky (Russian, 1904-1948) "Portrait of Raphael Soyer" Signed upper right, titled lower right. Pencil on Paper. Condition: Scattered foxing, staining under mat. Sight Size: 8.75 x 6.75 in. Overall Framed Size: 22 x 8 x 2.75 in.
Helmuth Stone
Feb. 23, 2022
Arshile Gorky Armenian/American, 1904-1948 Untitled: A double-sided work, 1945
Est: $5,000 - $8,000
Arshile Gorky Armenian/American, 1904-1948 Untitled: A double-sided work, 1945 Inscribed A 9277 LEVY on the verso Ink on paper 8 3/8 x 10 inches (21.3 x 25.4 cm) Provenance: Collection of Julien and Jean Levy, New York Sale, Sotheby's, New York, Sep. 22, 2012, lot 13 Nicola Rukaj Gallery, Toronto This work is recorded in the Arshile Gorky Foundation Archives as #D1506. C
DOYLE Auctioneers & Appraisers
Dec. 10, 2021
Arshile GORKY.
Est: €3,000 - €4,000
Arshile GORKY. Untitled. Undated [ca. 1945]. Original drawing, pen and ink on paper (27 x 30 cm): framed. Original composition by Arshile Gorky (1905-1948). A surrealist painter who arrived from Armenia in 1920, Arshile Gorky (1905-1948) stood out from the American artists of his time. Referring to "the spring of the eye" in the preface to the catalogue of the 1945 exhibition of his paintings at Julien Levy's in New York, André Breton said: "Arshile Gorky is for me the first painter to whom this secret has been fully revealed. The eye [...] is made to throw a lineament, to pass a thread between things of the most heterogeneous appearance. [...] This is an entirely new art, the antithesis of everything that, with the help of fashion and confusion, tends today to simulate surrealism by merely outwardly counterfeiting its approach." (Text reprinted in Le Surréalisme et la Peinture, Pléiade IV, pp. 589-592.) Gorky will illustrate Breton's 1946 book published by View in New York, Young Cherry Trees secured against Hares. Provenance: Galerie 1900-2000, with label on back. Sans titre. Sans date [vers 1945]. Dessin original, plume et encre sur papier (27 x 30 cm): encadré. Composition originale d'Arshile Gorky (1905-1948). Peintre surréaliste arrivé d'Arménie en 1920, Arshile Gorky (1905-1948) se démarque des artistes américains de son temps. Évoquant "le ressort de l'oeil" en préface au catalogue de l'exposition de ses tableaux en 1945 chez Julien Levy à New York, André Breton souligne: "Arshile Gorky est pour moi le premier peintre à qui se soit entièrement dévoilé ce secret. L'oeil [...] est fait pour jeter un linéament, pour faire passer un fil conducteur entre les choses d'aspect le plus hétérogène. [...] C'est là un art entièrement neuf, aux antipodes de tout ce qui, la mode et la confusion aidant, tend aujourd'hui à simuler le surréalisme en se bornant à contrefaire extérieurement sa démarche." (Texte repris dans Le Surréalisme et la Peinture, Pléiade IV, pp. 589-592.) Gorky illustrera le livre de Breton paru aux éditions View à New York en 1946, Young Cherry Trees secured against Hares. Provenance: Galerie 1900-2000, avec étiquette au dos.
Pierre Bergé & Associés
Dec. 07, 2021
Arshile Gorky - The Liver is the Cock's Comb - 1991 Serigraph 16" x 20"
Est: $200 - $300
"The Liver is the Cock's Comb" by Arshile Gorky, 1991 Unsigned Serigraph. Paper size is 16 x 20 inches, with an image size of 11.75 x 15.75 inches. The Serigraph is from an edition size of 500 and is not framed. The condition was rated A: Mint. Additional details: Museum Reproduction Edition Serigraph printed by Editions Limited in 1991 and Published by Gallery A.P. J. Graphic Station. Copyrighted Buffalo Fine Arts Academy, 1991 and from the Albright-Knox Art Gallery Collection.
DUMBO Auctions
Nov. 17, 2021
ARSHILE GORKY (AMERICAN, 1904-1948) PORTRAIT OF DAVID BURLIUK
Est: $2,500 - $4,000
Arshile Gorky (American, 1904-1948) Portrait of David Burliuk Signed bottom right, ink on paper menu. Executed c. 1931. Unframed (11 x 8 1/2 in. (28 x 21.6cm)) Provenance The Artist. David and Marussia "Mary" Burliuk, New York (acquired directly from the above). David Jr. and Margaret Burliuk (by family descent c. 1969). The Estate of Margaret Burliuk (by family descent in 2012). Private Collection, New York. Footnote: Note This work is recorded in the Arshile Gorky Foundation Archives under registration number D1539. Please see lot 17 for more information about this artist. Condition report: To receive a complete Condition Report on this Lot, please contact the department at modernart@freemansauction.com
Freeman's | Hindman
Nov. 17, 2021
ARSHILE GORKY (AMERICAN, 1904-1948) PORTRAIT OF A WOMAN [WITH SELF-PORTRAIT VERSO]
Est: $8,000 - $12,000
Arshile Gorky (American, 1904-1948) Portrait of a Woman [with Self-Portrait verso] Inscribed with artist's name and dated 1939 bottom right, pencil on paper. (15 1/4 x 11 in. (38.7 x 27.9cm)) Provenance The Artist. David and Marussia "Mary" Burliuk, New York (acquired directly from the above). David Jr. and Margaret Burliuk (by family descent c. 1969). The Estate of Margaret Burliuk (by family descent in 2012). Private Collection, New York. Footnote: Note This work is recorded in the Arshile Gorky Foundation Archives under registration number D1515. Please see lot 17 for more information about this artist. Condition report: To receive a complete Condition Report on this Lot, please contact the department at modernart@freemansauction.com
Freeman's | Hindman
Nov. 17, 2021
ARSHILE GORKY (AMERICAN, 1904-1948) LANDSCAPE
Est: $15,000 - $25,000
Arshile Gorky (American, 1904-1948) Landscape Signed bottom right, watercolor and pencil on paper. Executed c. 1926-28. Unframed (16 x 12 in. (40.6 x 30.5cm)) Provenance The Artist. David and Marussia "Mary" Burliuk, New York (acquired directly from the above). David Jr. and Margaret Burliuk (by family descent c. 1969). The Estate of Margaret Burliuk (by family descent in 2012). Private Collection, New York.. Footnote: Note This work is recorded in the Arshile Gorky Foundation Archives under registration number D1540. The Arshile Gorky drawings Landscape (Lot 17), Portrait of a Woman (Lot 18), and Portrait of David Burliuk (Lot 19) are from the collection of Russian expatriate and artist David Burliuk, who lived and worked in Manhattan and later Long Island, and led a cohort of painters casually known as the Hampton Bays Group. The group consisted of a diverse circle of artists, from different countries and backgrounds, including Raphael and Soyer Moses, Nicolai Cikovsky, Milton Avery, and Gorky himself. The artists shared left-leaning political philosophies and concern for the poor immigrant experience in New York. They exhibited together in New York at the ACA Galleries, the New School for Social Research, and the Société Anonyme. Unable to afford models, the group’s artists used each other as sitters, as well as studying the city around them, experimenting with their diverse styles. Burliuk and Gorky drew and painted each other many times, including in the charming portrait Portrait of David Burliuk (Lot 19), drawn on the back of a restaurant menu, hinting at the collegiality and affection between the two immigrant artists. The other two drawings, Portrait of a Woman (Lot 18) and Landscape (Lot 17) demonstrate Gorky’s early influences, particularly the work of Paul Cézanne, before his later Expressionist and Surrealist work. Gorky’s impact is still widely felt in the art world, with a major retrospective at the Philadelphia Museum of Art in 2009, and paintings in many prominent museum collections around the world. Condition report: To receive a complete Condition Report on this Lot, please contact the department at modernart@freemansauction.com
Freeman's | Hindman
Nov. 11, 2021
ARSHILE GORKY (1904-1948) Composition oil on canvas 36 1/8 x 48 1/8 in. (91
Est: $4,500,000 - $5,500,000
ARSHILE GORKY (1904-1948) Composition oil on canvas 36 1/8 x 48 1/8 in. (91.8 x 122.2 cm.)
Christie's
Nov. 09, 2021
Arshile Gorky Armenian/American, 1904-1948 Untitled [D1388]: a double-sided work, 1946
Est: $20,000 - $40,000
Arshile Gorky Armenian/American, 1904-1948 Untitled [D1388]: a double-sided work, 1946 Signed and dated A Gorky 46 (ur) Pencil and crayon on paper 12 1/2 x 17 inches (31.8 x 43.2 cm) Provenance: The artist Private collection, New York, wedding gift from Arshile and Agnes "Mougouch" Gorky, March 1948 With Eugene Victor Thaw, New York Private collection, New York With Jason McCoy Inc., New York Private collection, New York, thence by descent, 2020 This work is catalogued in the AGF Archives as D1388. C The Collection of Jane and John Gunther
DOYLE Auctioneers & Appraisers
Jun. 30, 2021
Arshile Gorky (1904-1948) Abstract Etching SIGNED
Est: $100 - $1,000
Arshile Gorky (Armenian American, 1904-1948). Abstract expressionism etching. Pencil signed lower right, Numbered 1/1 lower left. Housed in gilt wood frame. Paper Size 10 x 7 in. Work Size: 5 x 4 in. SHIPPING Hill Auction Gallery will offer in-house continental USA shipping for $85 plus insurance. Gallery will refer a local shipper for international buyers. Purchaser pick up available upon request. Got something to sell? Contact us at HillAuctionGallery.com.
Hill Auction Gallery
Jun. 04, 2021
Arshile Gorky (1904-1948): Untitled
Est: $6,000 - $9,000
Pencil and crayon on paper, c. 1944-46, unsigned. 6 x 9 7/16 in. (sheet), 12 3/4 x 16 in. (frame). Note: This work was recently reviewed by The Arshile Gorky Foundation and assigned identification number D1559. It will be included in the Foundation's catalogue raisonné. A photo of this work certified by previous owner Eleanor Perenyi in 1986 accompanies the lot. Property from the Estate of Arthur Brandt
STAIR
May. 12, 2021
Arshile Gorky Armenian/American, 1904-1948 Still Life, 1928
Est: $50,000 - $70,000
Arshile Gorky Armenian/American, 1904-1948 Still Life, 1928 Signed a. gorky and dated 1928 on stretcher Oil on canvas 20 7/8 x 16 inches (53 x 40.6 cm) Provenance: The artist Leonore Gallet, acquired from the artist, 1939 Likely Harold Diamond, New York Donald Morris Gallery, Detroit, MI Norma and Donald Nielsen, Detroit, MI (by 1981) Sheldon Ross Gallery, Birmingham, MI Exhibited: New York, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, Arshile Gorky 1904-1948: A Retrospective, Apr. 24 - Jul. 19, 1981, pl. 17. Traveled to: Dallas Museum of Art, Sep. 11 - Nov. 8, 1981; Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Dec. 3, 1981 - Feb. 28, 1982 Literature: Jim M. Jordan and Robert Goldwater, The Paintings of Arshile Gorky: A Critical Catalogue, New York University Press, New York and London, 1982, p. 158, no. 33, illus. Please note that is painting is catalogued in the Arshile Gorky Foundation archives as #P033. C
DOYLE Auctioneers & Appraisers
Dec. 15, 2020
Arshile Gorky (1904-1948) - Valentine, with garden in sochi motif
Est: $12,000 - $18,000
Arshile Gorky (1904-1948) Valentine, with garden in sochi motif signed, dedicated and dated 'To Leonore Arshile Gorky/38' (center left) gouache and graphite on paper mounted on board 14 1/8 x 9 in. (35.8 x 22.8 cm.) Painted in 1938. This work is recorded in the Arshile Gorky Foundation Archives under number D1529.
Christie's
Dec. 09, 2020
Arshile Gorky - Recto: Ohne Titel (Antique Heads) - Verso: Kopfstudie
Est: €8,000 - €10,000
Kohle auf Maschinenbütten von Ingres d'Arches. (Um 1935). Ca. 48 x 63 cm. Besteuerung: differenzbesteuert (VAT: Margin Scheme)
Karl & Faber