Viewing page 33 of 58

This transcription has been completed. Contact us with corrections.

[[photo]]

281.

1944

"THE LIVER IS THE COCK'S COMB"

oil on canvas; 73 1/4 x 98 3/8"; s & d, u l, "A. Gorky/44"

Collection: Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo. Gift of Seymour
H. Knox

History: the artist; Mrs. Jean Lamson Hebbeln; Sidney Janis Gallery; Albright-Knox Art Gallery, 1956

Exhibitions: JLG*, 1948, Dec., no. 3; WMAA, 1951, no. 33, ill.; Princeton, 1952, no. 10; SJG, 1953, no.5; Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Exhibition "Contemporary Art-Acquisition 1954-57," 1957, no. 6; Kassel, Germany, Exhibition "Documenta II," 1959, no. 2, ill.; VB, 1962, no. 13; MOMA, 1962, no. 68, ill.; AC/Tate, 1965, no. 53, ill., col.; MBv.B, 1965, no. 69, ill., col.

Literature: Sidney Janis, Abstract and Surrealist Art in America, N.Y., 1944, 89, ill. p. 120; André Breton, "The Eye-Spring," Julien Levy Gallery Gorky Exhibition Catalogue, 1945; Schwabacher, 1951, 32-34, ill. p. 31; Sidney Janis Gallery, Gorky Exhibition Catalogue, 1957, ill. no. 12, not in exhibition; Schwabacher, 1957, 98, 99, 102, 107, col. pl. III; Seitz 32-33, ill., col.; Rosenberg, 114, 122, ill. pp. 18-19; Rubin, "Arshile Gorky, Surrealism," 34, ill. p. 33; Reiff, "Late Works," 149, ill. p. 150; Levy, 20, pl. 95, col.

(*Note: abbreviations used here are explained in the Preface.)