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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Lifestyle

Arshile Gorky: art, life and legend at Tate Modern

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Arshile Gorky at his easel
Photograph: Courtesy Maro Gorky and Matthew Spender
Gorky: Arshile Gorky 2
The Artist and His Mother (1929–42)
Photograph: National Gallery of Art, Washington
Gorky: Arshile Gorky 2
Garden in Sochi (1941)
Photograph: ADAGP, Paris/DACS, London/Museum of Modern Art, New York/Scala, Florence
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Garden in Sochi (1943)
Photograph: The estate of Arshile Gorky/Digital image, Museum of Modern Art, New York/Scala, Florence
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Untitled – Virginia landscape, drawing (1943)
Photograph: Glenstone Foundation, Potomac
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Landscape Table (1945)
Photograph: ADAGP, Paris/DACS, London
Gorky: Arshile Gorky 2
Agony (1947)
Photograph: The estate of Arshile Gorky/Museum of Modern Art, New York/Scala, Florence
Gorky: Arshile Gorky 2
The Plow and the Song (1947)
Photograph: Allen Memorial Art Museum, Ohio
Gorky: Arshile Gorky 2
The Betrothal II (1947)
Photograph: Whitney Museum of American Art, New York
Gorky: Arshile Gorky 2
The Black Monk – Last Painting (1948)
Photograph: Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza, Madrid
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Arshile Gorky at Gjon Mili's studio
Photograph: Gjon Mili/Time & Life Pictures/Getty Images
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