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| Image | Sale date | Auction house | Location | Sale name | Lot No. | Estimate | Price Sold | Condition | Title |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Feb 27, 2025 | Christie's | New York | Post-War to Present | 129 | $****** - ****** | Red Black |
paintings
55.6 x 75.9 cm (21.88 x 29.88 in)
oil on paper laid down on illustration board
signed "Philip Guston" (lower left)
Marlborough-Gerson Gallery, New York
Private collection
Jefferson Gallery, Los Angeles
Acquired from the above by the present owner, 1970
Albany Institute of History and Art, September-October 1959.
New York, Sidney Janis Gallery, 29 Recent Paintings by Philip Guston , December 1959-January 1960, n.p., no. 25 (illustrated; titled Red-Black ).
New York, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum; Amsterdam, Stedelijk Museum; London, Whitechapel Gallery; Brussels, Palais des Beaux-Arts and Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Philip Guston , May-June 1963, n.p., no. 50.
La Jolla Museum of Contemporary Art, Philip Guston: Recent Work , July-October 1971.
Greenville County Museum of Art and Columbia Museum of Art, Collector One , July-August 1975, n.p., no. 43 (on the exhibition brochure; titled Red, Black ).
Detroit, Gertrude Kasle Gallery, Philip Guston, Paintings and Drawings , October 1969.
La Jolla Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego Collects , January-February 1975.
Charlotte, Mint Museum of Art, 1980-1993 (extended loan).
Asheville Art Museum, The Horowitz Collection of American Art , July-September 1993, n.p., no. 1 (exhibition brochure; titled Black/Red ).
Asheville Art Museum, 1993-2024 (extended loan).
Asheville Art Museum, Every Picture Tells A Story: Selected works from the Permanent Collection , January 2002.
Asheville Art Museum, The Elemental Arts: Water\Fire\Air\Earth , September 2011.
Asheville Art Museum, Intersections in American Art , November 2019-December 2024.
Asheville Art Museum, Gestures: Mid-Century Abstraction from the Collection , October 2021-January 2022.
P. G. Pavia, "Excavations in Non-History," It is. A Magazine for Abstract Art , Autumn 1959, p. 8 (illustrated).
"Guston Exhibit Draws Acclaim at Janis Gallery," Kingston Daily Freeman , 11 January 1960, p. 14 (titled Red-Black ).
A. Skinner, ed., Asheville Art Museum: An Introduction to the Collection , Asheville, 2022, p. 111 (illustrated; titled Black/Red ).
The Guston Foundation, The Philip Guston Catalogue Raisonné , digital, ongoing, no. P58.031 (illustrated).
PHILIP GUSTON (1913-1980)
Red Black
signed "Philip Guston" (lower left)
oil on paper laid down on illustration board
21 7/8 x 29 7/8 in. (55.6 x 75.9 cm.)
Painted in 1958.
