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| Image | Sale date | Auction house | Location | Sale name | Lot No. | Estimate | Price Sold | Condition | Title |
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May 11, 2023 | Christie's | New York | 20th Century Evening Sale | 24A | $****** - ****** | Pull |
paintings
172.7 x 254 cm (68 x 100 in)
oil on canvas
signed 'Philip Guston' (lower right); signed again, titled and dated 'PHILIP GUSTON "PULL" 1979"' (on the reverse)
David McKee Gallery, New York
Private collection
David McKee Gallery, New York
Vivian Horan Fine Art, New York
Acquired from the above by the late owner, 1999
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art; Washington, D.C., Corcoran Gallery of Art; Chicago, Museum of Contemporary Art; Denver Art Museum and New York, Whitney Museum of American Art, Philip Guston: Retrospective 1930-1979, May 1980-September 1981, p. 124, no. 93, pl. 82 (illustrated).
Los Angeles, Asher/Faure, Paintings by Philip Guston, May-June 1982 .
Columbus, Ohio State University, The Hoyt L. Sherman Gallery, University Gallery of Fine Art, Painter's Painters: Milton Avery, Philip Guston, Giorgio Morandi, March-April 1984, p. 13, no. 14 (illustrated).
Melbourne, National Gallery of Victoria; Perth, The Art Gallery of Western Australia and Sydney, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Philip Guston: The Late Works, August 1984-December 1984, pp. 26 and 47, no. 32 (illustrated).
New York, Museum of Modern Art; Art Institute of Chicago and Los Angeles, Museum of Contemporary Art, High & Low: Modern Art and Popular Culture, October 1990-September 1991, p. 225, fig. 112 (illustrated).
R. Toucatt, “Metamorphosis: The Art of Philip Guston,” The Threepenny Review, Fall 1980, p. 24.
S. Cramer, “Guston's Heroic Calm in the Face of the Last Gasp of Modernism,” Age, 5 September 1984, p. 14.
T. Maloon, “'Bad' Paintings the Board Chairman Would Never Hang in His Office,” Sydney Morning Herald, 12 November 1984, p. 12.
A. Rand, “The Victory of the Futile,” Arts Magazine, November 1988, pp. 62-66 (illustrated).
W. Corbett, Philip Guston's Late Work: A Memoir, Boston, 1994, pp. 91-92.
Picasso, Guston, Miro, de Kooning: In volkommener Freiheit, exh. cat., Neues Museum Weserberg Bremen, 1996, pp. 102-103.
The Guston Foundation, The Philip Guston Catalogue Raisonné, digital, ongoing, no. P79.009 (illustrated).
PHILIP GUSTON (1913-1980)
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signed 'Philip Guston' (lower right); signed again, titled and dated 'PHILIP GUSTON "PULL" 1979"' (on the reverse)
oil on canvas
68 x 100 in. (172.7 x 254 cm.)
Painted in 1979.
