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Philip Guston

The Picture

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November 19, 02:43 AM GMT

Estimate

2,000,000 - 3,000,000 USD

Lot Details

Description

Philip Guston

(1913 - 1980)


The Picture

signed and dated '71 (lower left)

oil on paper mounted on canvas

30 ½ by 39 ¼ in.

77.5 by 99.7 cm.

Executed in 1971.

Estate of the artist

Musa Mayer, New York (by descent)

McKee Gallery, New York

Acquired from the above in 2015 by the present owner

School of Fine & Applied Arts Gallery, Boston University, Philip Guston: New Paintings, March - April 1974, no. 31, n.p. (text) (incorrectly dated 1972)

New York, David McKee Gallery, Philip Guston, 'Roma' 1971, October 1987, no. 15, n.p., illustrated in color (titled Untitled)

Rome, Museo Carlo Bilotti and Washington, D.C., The Phillips Collection, Philip Guston: Roma, May 2010 - May 2011, no. 17, p. 47 (text) and p. 169, illustrated in color (titled Untitled)

Los Angeles, Hauser & Wirth, Resilience: Philip Guston in 1971, September 2019 - January 2020, pp. 37, 179 (text) and p. 39, illustrated in color

David Anfam, "Philip Guston: Rome and Washington," The Burlington Magazine, Vol. 152, No. 1290, September 2010, fig. 85, p. 637, illustrated in color (titled Untitled)

Benjamin Ivry, "The Escape Artist," Jewish Daily Forward, 4 February 2011, p. 15, illustrated in color

Nancy Kay Turner, "Resilience: Philip Guston in 1971," Riot Material, 9 October 2019 (text) (online)

Megan Milks, "Hoods and Hoodwinkery," X-TRA, Vol. 22, No. 4, Summer 2020, p. 25, illustrated in color

The Guston Foundation, The Philip Guston Catalogue Raisonné, ongoing, no. P71.111, illustrated in color (online) (accessed: 29 October 2025)