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Property from a Private Collection

Philip Guston

The Canvas

Auction Closed

October 12, 06:59 PM GMT

Estimate

2,000,000 - 3,000,000 GBP

Lot Details

Description

Property from a Private Collection

Philip Guston

1913 - 1980


The Canvas

signed (lower right); signed, titled, dated 1973 and variously inscribed (on the reverse)

oil on canvas

170.4 by 200.8 cm.

67⅛ by 79 in.

Executed in 1973.

The Artist

The Estate of the Artist

Hauser & Wirth, New York

Acquired from the above in 2016 by the present owner

Robert Taylor, "Guston: The Raw and the Refined," Boston Sunday Globe, 24 March 1974, p. A-12, illustrated

Kay Larson, "From Abstraction to the Absurd: The Transformation of Philip Guston," Real Paper, 3 April 1974, pp. 20-21 (text)

Sondra Levin, "Guston Works Displayed in SFAA; Visions of Forms, Tales of Feelings," Daily Free Press, 9 April 1974, n.p. (text)

Dore Ashton, Yes, but... A Critical Study of Philip Guston, New York 1976, p. 180, illustrated

Clark Coolidge, "Clark Coolidge Class 1," Naropa Institute Jack Kerouac School of Disembodied Poetics, Boulder 1 July 1980, audio recording

Robert Storr, Philip Guston, New York 1986, no. 106, p. 108, illustrated

Dore Ashton, A Critical Study of Philip Guston, Berkeley 1990, p. 180, illustrated 

Anon., "Portfolio and Documents: Philip Guston," TO: A Journal of Poetry, Prose & the Visual Arts 2, issue no. 3–4, 1994, pp. 159-206; p. 164, illustrated

Exh. Cat., Les Sables d'Olonne, Musée de l'Abbaye Sainte-Croix des Sables d'Olonne, Philip Guston (1913-1980) Oeuvres sur papier 1975-1980, June – September 1995, n.p., illustrated

Vincente Jarque, "Philip Guston, librepensador de la pintura," El País, 22 December 2001, p. 22 (text)

Carolina Miralles, "Philip Guston," La Glorieta, Arte, 2001, p. 7 (text)

Alexander van Grevenstein, "Philip Guston: The Demos (1973–1979)," trans. Beth O'Brien, Bonnefanten Magazine, Summer 2002, p. 19, illustrated in colour

Keith Bruce, "Between Pollock and Warhol," Herald, 27 July 2012, p. 19 (text)

Moira Jeffrey, "Different Strokes," Scotland on Sunday, 29 July 2012, p. 12 (text)

Adrian Hamilton, "Philip Guston, The Hand That Rocked the Art Establishment," Independent, 22 August 2012, pp. 44-45, illustrated in colour (online)

Alastair Sooke, "Philip Guston: Late Paintings, Inverleith House, Review," The Telegraph, 21 August 2012, text (online)

Merlin James, "Late Guston, Edinburgh," Burlington Magazine, vol. 154, no. 1316, November 2012, p. 810 (text)

Thaddeus Radell, "Philip Guston: A Problematic Centennial," Painting Perceptions, 2 April 2013, n.p., illustrated in colour (online)

Anon., “Eye on Art: Paintings and Sculpture,” Blouin ArtInfo, New York 16 April 2013, video, detail illustrated in colour (online) [3:07-3:10]

Exh. Cat., Frankfurt, Schirn Kunsthalle (and travelling), Philip Guston, Das Grosse Spätwerk, Late Works, November 2013 – September 2014, pp. 24-25, text; no. 14, p. 25, illustrated in colour

Dr. Karen Lang, "Philip Guston and the Allegory of Painting," Annual Review 2013, The Leverhulme Trust, 2014, p. 46, illustrated in colour (detail)

Scott Reyburn, "Defying Fears of a Cooling Market," The New York Times, 11 December 2015, illustrated in colour (online)

Jonathan Fineberg, Modern Art at the Border of Mind and Brain, Lincoln 2015, no. 55, p. 71, illustrated in colour

Exh. Cat., Venice, Gallerie dell’Accademia di Venezia, Philip Guston & The Poets, 2017, p. 56 (text); p. 70, illustrated in colour

Robert Storr, Philip Guston: A Life Spent Painting, London 2020, no. 150, p. 148, illustrated in colour; p. 152 (text)

Musa Mayer, Philip Guston, London 2020, p. 82, illustrated in colour; p. 85 (text)

Clark Coolidge, 16 Poems for Philip Guston, Portland 2021, p. 5, illustrated in colour

Boston, Boston University Art Gallery, Philip Guston: New Paintings, March – April 1974, no. 4, n.p., illustrated

Valencia, Institut Valencià d’Art Modern and Maastricht, Bonnefanten Museum, Philip Guston One-Shot Painting, December 2001 – December 2002, p. 49, illustrated in colour (detail); p. 185, illustrated in colour

Edinburgh, Inverleith House, Philip Guston (1913 - 1980): Late Paintings, July – October 2012, no. 8, n.p., illustrated in colour

New York, McKee Gallery, Philip Guston: A Centennial Exhibition, March – April 2013, n.p., illustrated in colour (online)