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Vital Line: A New York Collection
PHILIP GUSTON (1913-1980)
Steppes
Details
PHILIP GUSTON (1913-1980)
Steppes
signed 'Philip Guston' (lower left); signed again, titled and dated 'PHILIP GUSTON "STEPPES" 1978' (on the reverse)
oil on canvas
68 x 88 in. (172.7 x 223.5 cm.)
Painted in 1978.
Steppes
signed 'Philip Guston' (lower left); signed again, titled and dated 'PHILIP GUSTON "STEPPES" 1978' (on the reverse)
oil on canvas
68 x 88 in. (172.7 x 223.5 cm.)
Painted in 1978.
Provenance
Estate of the artist
David McKee Gallery, New York
Acquired from the above by the present owner, 1982
David McKee Gallery, New York
Acquired from the above by the present owner, 1982
Literature
R. Toucatt, "Metamorphosis: The Art of Philip Guston," The Threepenny Review, vol. 1, no. 3, Fall 1980, p. 24.
Shifting Visions: O'Keeffe, Guston, Richter, exh. cat., Des Moines Art Center, 1998, p. 49.
Philip Guston: Now, exh. cat., Washington, D.C., National Gallery of Art, 2020, p. 239.
R. Storr, Philip Guston: A Life Spent Painting, London, 2020, p. 190.
The Guston Foundation, The Philip Guston Catalogue Raisonné, digital, ongoing, no. P78.003 (illustrated).
Shifting Visions: O'Keeffe, Guston, Richter, exh. cat., Des Moines Art Center, 1998, p. 49.
Philip Guston: Now, exh. cat., Washington, D.C., National Gallery of Art, 2020, p. 239.
R. Storr, Philip Guston: A Life Spent Painting, London, 2020, p. 190.
The Guston Foundation, The Philip Guston Catalogue Raisonné, digital, ongoing, no. P78.003 (illustrated).
Exhibited
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art; Washington, D.C., Corcoran Gallery of Art; Chicago, Museum of Contemporary Art; Denver Art Museum and New York, Whitney Museum of American Art, Philip Guston: Retrospective 1930-1979, May 1980-September 1981, p. 113, no. 84, pl. 71 (illustrated).
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