Lot 166
  • 166

PHILIP GUSTON | Untitled

Estimate
250,000 - 350,000 USD
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Description

  • Philip Guston
  • Untitled
  • oil on panel
  • 9 3/4 by 12 in. 24.8 by 30.5 cm.
  • Executed circa 1968.

Provenance

McKee Gallery, New York
Acquired from the above by the present owner

Condition

This work is in very good condition overall. The colors are bright, fresh and clean. There is light evidence of handling along the edges including a 1-inch vertical hairline loss along the lower right edge. There is a small drip accretion in the upper right corner. Under Ultraviolet light inspection, the aforementioned drip accretion fluoresces but does not appear to be the result of restoration. Framed.
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Catalogue Note

"This was the beginning. They are self-portraits. I perceive myself as being behind a hood...The idea of evil fascinated me...What would it be like to be evil? To plan and to plot? I started conceiving an imaginary city being overtaken by the Klan. I was like a movie director. I couldn't wait, I had hundreds of pictures in mind, and when I left the studio I would make notes to myself, memos: 'Put them all around the table, eating, drinking beer.' Ideas and feelings kept coming so fast; I couldn't stop, I was sitting on the crest of a wave."
Philip Guston

The Guston Foundation will include this work in the forthcoming catalogue raisonné of the paintings of Philip Guston.