Philip Guston

Letter to a Friend

signed, titled and dated 1977 (on the reverse)

oil on canvas

51 ½ by 79 in.

130.8 by 200.7 cm.

Executed in 1977.

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Philip Guston
Letter to a Friend

signed, titled and dated 1977 (on the reverse)

oil on canvas

51 ½ by 79 in.

130.8 by 200.7 cm.

Executed in 1977.

Provenance

Estate of the artist

McKee Gallery, New York

Nancy Whyte Fine Arts, Inc., New York

Acquired from the above by the present owner 

Exhibition

Honolulu, University of Hawaii á Manoa Art Gallery, Sum of the Parts, August - September 1994, p. 40, illustrated in color

Valencia, Fundación Bancaja, Creación y Figura: Figuración en el siglo XX, 1999 - 2000, cat. no. 51, n.p., illustrated in color 

Valencia, Institute Valencià d'Art Modern; Maastricht, Bonnefanten Museum, Philip Guston: One-Shot Paintings, December 2001 - December 2002, pp. 140-141 and p. 181, illustrated in color 

Santa Monica Museum of Art, Enigma Variations: Philip Guston and Giorgio de Chirico, September - November 2006, pl. 22, p. 59, illustrated in color and p. 64

Literature

Kenneth Baker, Dore Ashton, et. al., Philip Guston: Roots of Drawing, Bilbao 1993, p. 19, illustrated in color

Carolina Miralles, "Philip Guston," La Glorieta, Arte, 2001, p. 7

María Jesús Folch, "Los pensamientos visuales de Philip Guston," Arte Contemporaneo, January 2002, pp. 80-83, illustrated and pp. 82-83

Mathilde Urfalino, "Les poem-pictures de Philip Guston," octopusnotes, December 2013, fig. 52, p. 53, illustrated

The Guston Foundation, The Philip Guston Catalogue Raisonné, digital, ongoing, no. P77.023, illustrated in color