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PHILIP GUSTON (1913-1980)

Lot 137
10.03.2023 00:00UTC +00:00
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ID 921146
Lot 137 | PHILIP GUSTON (1913-1980)
Estimate value
$ 18 000 – 25 000
PHILIP GUSTON (1913-1980)

Roots, from Enigma Variations

signed, inscribed and dated 'To Bill Berkson, Philip Guston 1961' (lower right)

ink on paper

17 7/8 x 23 7/8 in. (45.4 x 60.6 cm.)

Executed in 1961.





Provenance

Bill Berkson, gift from the artist

By descent from the above to the present owner



Literature

B. Berkson and P. Guston, Enigma Variations, Berkeley, 1975, n.p. (illustrated).

P. Guston, Philip Guston: Drawings for Poets, Munich, 2015, p. 96 (illustrated).



Exhibited

San Francisco, Gallery Paule Anglim, Philip Guston: Drawings for Bill Berkson's Enigma Variations," December 1975-January 1976.

Andover, Addison Gallery of American Art; New York, The Drawing Center and Columbus, Wexner Center for the Arts, Philip Guston's Poem-Pictures, September 1994-Fall 1995.



Post Lot Text

The Guston Foundation confirms that this lot will be included in the forthcoming catalogue raisonné of known drawings by the artist.
Artist:Philip Guston (1913 - 1980)
Art style:Post War Art
Auction house category:Paintings
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