Philip Guston

Gift of the artist

This work is in very good condition overall. The colors are bright, fresh and clean. Very close inspection reveals an extremely faint and unobtrusive accretion along the upper right edge. Under Ultraviolet light inspection two minor accretions along the upper right edge fluoresce, but do not appear to be the result of restoration. Framed under Plexiglas.
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"I feel that there has to be a moral value to color. Why should there be this color, or that color, or that color? It took me a few years to get the feeling of red and, in particular, cad red medium, which I happen to love. That just is like somebody saying, "I like pastrami." I can't tell you why. I like cad red medium. It has a certain resonance, a certain thing, particularly because you can go both ways with it, a little black goes well with it, a little pink goes well with it. I'm more of a tonal painter, maybe, I work with a few tones. I don't think I have ever been a colorist, working with color to create space. I've tried to locate forms more with tone. Color puzzles me. I become attached to a single color and work with it for years." Phiip Guston