Philip Guston

The Hill

VAT reduced rateUK: Greenford Park Warehouse

Estimate

2,500,000 - 3,500,000 GBP

Lot Details

Description

Philip Guston

1913 - 1980

The Hill

signed (lower right); signed, titled, dated 1971, and variously inscribed (on the reverse)

oil on canvas

145 by 207 cm. 57⅛ by 81½ in.

Executed in 1971.

Gertrude Kasle Gallery, Detroit

Judy Robins, Denver

Christie's, New York, 8 November 1983, lot 49 (consigned by the above)

Private Collection, Japan (acquired from the above sale)

Gagosian Gallery, New York

Acquired from the above in 2017 by the present owner

Boston, Boston University Art Gallery, Philip Guston: New Paintings, March – April 1974, no. 22, n.p. (checklist)

Detroit, Gertrude Kasle Gallery, Philip Guston, November – December 1974

London, Timothy Taylor Gallery, Philip Guston, June – July 2015

Kenneth Baker, “Review of Exhibitions: Boston, Philip Guston at Boston University,” Art in America, May – June 1974, p. 115 (text)

Robert Clark and Skye Sherwin, “Philip Guston, Cornelia Baltes, Stan Douglas: This Week’s New Exhibitions,” The Guardian, 5 June 2015, illustrated in colour (detail) (online)

Adrian Searle, “Morbid Monsters and the Ku Klux Klan: The Crude Cartoonish Genius of Philip Guston,” The Guardian, 23 June 2015, illustrated in colour (online)

Exh. Cat., Zurich, Hauser & Wirth, Resilience: Philip Guston in 1971, 2019, pp. 161 and 170-71, illustrated in colour

The Guston Foundation, The Philip Guston Catalogue Raisonné, online, ongoing, no. P71.133, illustrated in colour