By Hratch Tchilingirian Arshile Gorky, a painter…the first cousin of Maxim Gorky, the writer…ends life,” wrote The New York Times in a short obituary on July 22, 1948. Arshile Gorky had introduced himself as a Tiflis-born Georgian prince who had fled his native Caucasus mountains and Bolshevik persecutions. He had studied in Paris, he said,