The Estate of Arshile Gorky, New York
Private Collection
Gagosian Gallery, New York
Mr. & Mrs. Richard S. Fuld, New York (acquired from the above by 2003)
Christie's, New York, November 12, 2008, lot 47
Acquired at the above sale by the present owner
New York, International Council of the Museum of Modern Art, Arshile Gorky Drawings, 1962 - 1968, no. 8 (traveled to over 30 venues across North and South America and Europe)
Brussels, Palais des Beaux-Arts and Rotterdam, Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Arshile Gorky Paintings and Drawings, May 22 - September 5, 1965, no. 22
New York, Knoedler & Co., Inc., Gorky: Drawings, November 25 - December 27, 1969, no. 20, p. 23 (illustrated)
Newark Museum; University of Rochester, Memorial Art Gallery; Washington, D.C., Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Smithsonian Institute; Chicago, Museum of Contemporary Art; Houston, Museum of Fine Arts; Newport Beach, Newport Harbor Art Museum; New York, Queens Museum, Murals without Walls: Arshile Gorky's Aviation Murals Rediscovered, November 15, 1978 - November 2, 1980, no. 8, p. 71 (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 24, 1981 - February 28, 1982, no. 50, p. 32 (illustrated, p. 103)
Lausanne, Musée Cantonal des Beaux-Arts; Vienna, Graphische Sammlung Albertina; Marseille, Musée Cantini; St. Etienne Musée d'art Moderne; Frankfurter Kunstverein; Bremen, Kunsthalle, Arshile Gorky: Oeuvres sur papier, 1929-1947, September 21, 1990 - January 26, 1992, no. 15, p. 60 (illustrated)
Venice, Peggy Guggenheim Collection; Rome, Palazzo delle Esposizioni; Lisbon, Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian, Centro de Arte Moderna, Arshile Gorky: Works on Paper, April 1992 - August 27, 1993, no. 8 (illustrated, p. 53)
Princeton University, The Art Museum; Milwaukee Art Museum; Baltimore Museum of Art; New York, Stephen Mazoh & Co., Arshile Gorky and the Genesis of Abstraction: Drawings from the Early 1930's, October 29, 1994 - January 21, 1996, no. 39 (illustrated, p. 79; detail illustrated on the cover)
New York, Gagosian Gallery, Arshile Gorky: Paintings and Drawings, 1929-1942, October 27, 1998 - January 9, 1999, no. 14, p. 66 (illustrated, p. 67)
New York, Whitney Museum of American Art; Houston, Menil Collection, Arshile Gorky: A Retrospective of Drawings, November 20, 2003 - May 9, 2004, pl. 15, p. 39 (illustrated, p. 40)
Hiroshi Fujimatsu, "Expert of Line and Life," Bijutsu Techo 10, October 1963, pp. 9 –10 (illustrated)
Franz Schulze, "He Spoke the Abstract Idiom," Chicago Daily News, November 16, 1963, n.p. (illustrated)
Julien Levy, Arshile Gorky, New York, 1966, pl. 4, p. 16 (illustrated)
Matthew Spender, From a High Place: A Life of Arshile Gorky, New York, 1999, p. 113 (illustrated)
Hayden Herrera, Arshile Gorky: His Life and Work, New York, 2003, fig. 93 (illustrated)
Jody Patterson,"'Flight from Reality' A Reconsideration of Gorky's Politics and Approach to Public Murals in the 1930s," in Arshile Gorky: A Retrospective, exh. cat., Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, 2009, pp. 74–93, fig. 53 (illustrated, p. 76)