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Property of an Esteemed Collection

Philip Guston

Midnight

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15,000 - 20,000 USD

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15,000 USD

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Property of an Esteemed Collection

Philip Guston

1913 - 1980


Midnight

signed and dated '53 (lower left)

ink on paper

11 ½ by 17 ¾ in.

29.2 by 45.1 cm.

Executed in 1953.

Please refer to sothebys.com for updated provenance for this work.

McKee Gallery, New York

Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles Benefit Auction, 16 May 1986, lot 19

Acquired at the above sale by the present owner

New York, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, Philip Guston, May - July 1962, no. 16

Montgomery Museum of Fine Arts, Philip Guston, June - August 1982

Norwich Gallery, Living Dust, September - October 2004

Dore Ashton, Philip Guston, New York 1960, illustrated (on the cover)

Dennis Drogseth, “Philip Guston drawings: ‘Some artists have the capacity for imaginative projection,’” Woodstock Times, 26 October 1978, p. 8

Jeanne Shaffer, “Guston exhibit celebrates acquisitions,” Montgomery Advertiser, 15 August 1982, p. 16C

The Guston Foundation, The Philip Guston Catalogue Raisonné, ongoing, no. D530007, illustrated in color (online)