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Estimate: $ 3,000 - $ 5,000
ARSHILE GORKY Abstraction.
Pencil on light tan wove paper, 1934. 229x305 mm; 11 3/4x12 inches.
Ex-collection the artist; Hans Burkhardt, New York, circa 1935, with his annotations in pencil, verso; Charles Craig, Jr., Santa Barbara, 2004; private collection, Los Angeles.
Exhibited "Charles E. Craig, Jr. Multicultural Art Collection," Louisiana State University Museum of Art, 1995.
The current lot relates to the artist's studies for the mural Man's Conquest of the Air, painted for the Aviation Building at the 1939 World's Fair, New York, and planned to be transported to a New Jersey airport (the mural was instead destroyed at the close of the fair).
