PHILIP GUSTON | Garden, Roma

Rudolf Gallery, Woodstock
Private Collection
Acquavella Contemporary Art, Inc., New York
Acquired from the above by the present owner in May 1989

This work is in very good condition overall. There is extremely minor evidence handling to the edges. There is an artist's pinhole in the lower right corner. There is a slight undulation to the sheet, inherent to the artist's working method and chosen medium. The colors are bright, fresh and clean. The sheet is hinged verso to the mat along the edges. Framed under Plexiglas.
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"I was influenced by the cities you see on the hills. Then I became interested in the gardens, the formal gardens there. They were all around us where we lived in Rome up on the Gianiculum. And these are just some fantasies I did, a whole series of things influenced by the gardens, the way they cut them in various shapes...To me they represent so much...This actually makes me think of where we lived and what I saw out the window and so on. Even though it didn't look literally like that, of course."
Philip Guston

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