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LONDON: Arshile Gorky exhibition at Tate Modern

TATE Modern will present the first major retrospective of Arshile Gorky to be seen in Europe for 20 years.

Landscape Table (1945) by Arshile Gorky. ADAGP, Paris and DACS, London 2010 © Arshile Gorky Estate. Photo courtesy of © Collection Centre Pompidou, Dist. RMN / Philippe Migeat Landscape Table (1945) by Arshile Gorky. ADAGP, Paris and DACS, London 2010 © Arshile Gorky Estate. Photo courtesy of © Collection Centre Pompidou, Dist. RMN / Philippe Migeat

Celebrating one of the most powerful and poetic American artists of his generation, Arshile Gorky: A Retrospective will examine the extraordinary contribution of this seminal figure in abstract expressionism.

Landscape Table (1945) by Arshile Gorky. ADAGP, Paris and DACS, London 2010 © Arshile Gorky Estate. Photo courtesy of © Collection Centre Pompidou, Dist. RMN / Philippe Migeat

The exhibition will span Gorky’s 25 year career and offer the opportunity to see this complex and moving body of work as a whole.

It will include more than 150 paintings and works on paper, many of which have not been shown in public previously.

Waterfall (1943) by Arshile Gorky. Purchased with assistance from the Friends of the Tate Gallery, 1971 Waterfall (1943) by Arshile Gorky. Purchased with assistance from the Friends of the Tate Gallery, 1971

Waterfall (1943) by Arshile Gorky. Purchased with assistance from the Friends of the Tate Gallery, 1971

The exhibition was conceived by Michael R Taylor, at the Philadelphia Museum of Art and is curated at Tate Modern by Matthew Gale.

Arshile Gorky: A Retrospective. Tate Modern, Bankside, London. February 10 to May 3. 020 7887 8888