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.
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