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PHILIP GUSTON (1913-1980)

Lot 551
20.11.2025 00:00UTC +00:00
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ID 1508284
Lot 551 | PHILIP GUSTON (1913-1980)
Estimate value
$ 150 000 – 200 000
PHILIP GUSTON (1913-1980)
Layers
signed and dated 'Philip Guston 1980' (lower left)
ink on paper
19 x 25 3/8 in. (48.3 x 64.3 cm.)
Executed in 1980.




Provenance

David Mckee Gallery, New York
Acquired from the above by the present owner, 1985



Literature

R. Smith, "Retrospective Covers Guston's Two Careers," The New York Times, September 1988, pp. C1 and C22.
A. Dunne, "Staying Same by Changing," Sunday Tribune, 13 August 1989 (illustrated).
Philip Guston, Opere Su Carta 1933–1980, exh. cat., Milan, 1989, p. 117, no. 111 (illustrated).



Exhibited

Montgomery Museum of Fine Arts, Philip Guston, June-August 1982.
New York, The Museum of Modern Art; Amsterdam, Museum Overholland; Barcelona, Centre Cultural de la Fundació Caixa de Pensions; Museum of Modern Art Oxford; Dublin, The Douglas Hyde Gallery and Rome, Galleria Nazionale d'Arte Moderna e Contemporanea, The Drawings of Philip Guston, September 1988-November 1989, pp. 41 and 159, no. 138 (illustrated).
Kunstmuseum Bonn; Humlebæk, Louisiana Museum of Modern Art; Vienna, Albertina; Munich, Pinakothek der Moderne and New York, The Morgan Library and Museum, Philip Guston: Works on Paper, February 2007-August 2008, p. 157, no. 81 (illustrated).



Further details

The Guston Foundation confirms that this lot will be included in the forthcoming catalogue raisonné of known drawings by the artist.
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