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Arshile Gorky
Self Portraitcirca 1928

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Oil painting portrait of a mustachioed man shown from the chest up, angled slightly right, painted in broad strokes of ochre, plum, and slate gray

Arshile Gorky, Self Portrait, circa 1928, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Hans Burkhardt, photo © Museum Associates/LACMA

Artist or Maker
Arshile Gorky
Armenia, active United States, 1904-1948
Title
Self Portrait
Date Made
circa 1928
Medium
Oil on canvas
Dimensions
24 x 16 in. (60.96 x 40.64 cm); framed: 25 1/4 x 17 1/2 x 1 1/2 in. (64.14 x 44.45 x 3.81 cm)
Credit Line
Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Hans Burkhardt
Accession Number
47.30
Classification
Paintings
Collecting Area
Modern Art
Selected Bibliography
  • Waldman, Diane. Arshile Gorky: 1904-1948 A Retrospective. New York: Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, 1981.
  • Gale, Matthew. Arshile Gorky: enigma and nostalgia. London: Tate Publishing, 2010.
Copyright
© The Arshile Gorky Foundation/Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York

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