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Arshile Gorky
Raphael Soyer
American Art
On View: American Art Galleries, 5th Floor, Witness
MEDIUM
Oil on canvas
DATES
1940
DIMENSIONS
12 × 9 in. (30.5 × 22.9 cm)
frame: 18 × 15 × 1 5/8 in. (45.7 × 38.1 × 4.1 cm) (show scale)
SIGNATURE
Lower right: Raphael / Soyer
INSCRIPTIONS
Verso center, in oil, in Soyer's hand: PORTRAIT OF / GORKY / by / Raphael Soyer
COLLECTIONS
American Art
ACCESSION NUMBER
50.82
CREDIT LINE
Gift of Nat Shapiro in memory of his father, Louis Shapiro
PROVENANCE
Prior to 1950, provenance not yet documented; by 1950, acquired by Nat Shapiro; June 7, 1950, gift of Nat Shapiro to the Brooklyn Museum.
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EXHIBITIONS
MUSEUM LOCATION
This item is on view in American Art Galleries, 5th Floor, Witness
CAPTION
Raphael Soyer (American, born Russia, 1899–1987). Arshile Gorky, 1940. Oil on canvas, 12 × 9 in. (30.5 × 22.9 cm). Brooklyn Museum, Gift of Nat Shapiro in memory of his father, Louis Shapiro, 50.82. © artist or artist's estate (Photo: Brooklyn Museum, 50.82.jpg)
IMAGE
overall, 50.82.jpg. Brooklyn Museum photograph, 2004
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