Philip Guston
Catalogue Raisonné

Title
Book
Date
1968
Medium
Gouache on panel
Dimensions
30 x 32 in.76.2 x 81.3 cm
Inscription
Signed front lower left: Philip Guston; inscribed on reverse: PHILIP GUSTON/ GOUACHE/ “BOOK” [underlined]/ 1968/ 30 x 32/ N.F.S. [underlined]
Catalogue No.
P68.001
Provenance
Promised gift of Musa Guston Mayer to The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Exhibitions
Marlborough Gallery, New York, NY, "Philip Guston Recent Paintings", October 17, 1970 - November 07, 1970
Kunstmuseum Bonn, Bonn, Germany, "Philip Guston: Gemälde 1947 - 1979", September 02, 1999 - November 01, 1999
McKee Gallery, New York, NY, "Philip Guston: A Centennial Exhibition", March 02, 2013 - April 20, 2013
Gallerie dell'Accademia, Venice, Italy, "Philip Guston and the Poets", May 10, 2017 - September 03, 2017
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY, "Philip Guston: The Panel Paintings, 1968-1972", April 12, 2024 - April 12, 2026
Kunstmuseum Bonn, Bonn, Germany, "Philip Guston: Gemälde 1947 - 1979", September 02, 1999 - November 01, 1999
Kunstverein Stuttgart, Stuttgart, Germany, "Philip Guston: Gemälde 1947 - 1979", February 16, 2000 - April 24, 2000
National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada, "Philip Guston: Paintings of Four Decades", May 12, 2000 - July 30, 2000
Musee National d'Art Moderne, Centre Pompidou, Paris, France, "Philip Guston Peintures 1947 - 1979", September 13, 2000 - December 04, 2000
McKee Gallery, New York, NY, "Philip Guston: A Centennial Exhibition", March 02, 2013 - April 20, 2013
Gallerie dell'Accademia, Venice, Italy, "Philip Guston and the Poets", May 10, 2017 - September 03, 2017
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY, "Philip Guston: The Panel Paintings, 1968-1972", April 12, 2024 - April 12, 2026
Bibliography
Philip Guston. Exh. cat. New York: Marlborough Gallery, 1970, cat. no. 2, not illus.
Nicholas Serota, ed. Philip Guston: Paintings 1969–1980. Exh. cat. London: Whitechapel Art Gallery, 1982, illus. in b&w frontispiece, not in exhibition
Storr, Robert. Philip Guston. New York: Abbeville Modern Masters, 1986, illus. in b&w no. 64 p. 66
Anfam, David. "Bonn, Philip Guston." Burlington Magazine, December 1999, pp. 767-78, Fig. 73 illus. in b&w p. 768
Schreier, Christoph, Michael Auping, and Martin Hentschel. Philip Guston: Gemalde 1947–1979. Exh. cat. Ostfildern: Hatje Cantz Verlag, 1999, unnumbered catalog, illus. in color p. 93
Halkes, Petra. "Figuring Out Abstraction." Border Crossings, August 2000, pp. 75–77, mentioned in text p. 76, not illus.
Ottinger, Didier, and Philip Roth. Philip Guston: Peintures 1947–1979. Exh. cat. Paris: Centre Georges Pompidou, 2000, illus. in color p. 62
Philip Guston Tableaux / Paintings 1947 - 1979. Exh. cat. Ostfildern: Hatje Cantz Publishers, 2000, illus. in color p. 93
Greenwald, Xico. "Guston at 100." New York Sun, March 19, 2013. Online, mentioned in text and illus. in color in accompanying slide show online
Yau, John. "Philip Guston's Line." Hyperallergic, March 24, 2013. Online, illus. in color
Radell, Thaddeus. "Philip Guston: A Problematic Centennial." Painting Perceptions. Blog. April 2, 2013. Online, mentioned in text, not illus.
Eye on Art: Paintings and Sculpture. New York: Blouin ArtInfo, April 16, 2013. Video, illus. in color
Slifkin, Robert. Out of Time: Philip Guston and the Refiguration of Postwar American Art. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2013, illus. in b&w fig. 12 p. 40
Art It. "Philip Guston and the Poets @ Gallerie dell'Accademia di Venezia." May 25, 2017. Online, illus. in color as part of an installation photo
Philip Guston & The Poets. Exh. cat. Essay by Kosme de Barañano. Hauser & Wirth, 2017, illus. in color p. 16
Guston, Philip. I Paint What I Want To See. Penguin Classics, 2022, mentioned in text p. 205, not illus.
Nicholas Serota, ed. Philip Guston: Paintings 1969–1980. Exh. cat. London: Whitechapel Art Gallery, 1982, illus. in b&w frontispiece, not in exhibition
Storr, Robert. Philip Guston. New York: Abbeville Modern Masters, 1986, illus. in b&w no. 64 p. 66
Anfam, David. "Bonn, Philip Guston." Burlington Magazine, December 1999, pp. 767-78, Fig. 73 illus. in b&w p. 768
Schreier, Christoph, Michael Auping, and Martin Hentschel. Philip Guston: Gemalde 1947–1979. Exh. cat. Ostfildern: Hatje Cantz Verlag, 1999, unnumbered catalog, illus. in color p. 93
Halkes, Petra. "Figuring Out Abstraction." Border Crossings, August 2000, pp. 75–77, mentioned in text p. 76, not illus.
Ottinger, Didier, and Philip Roth. Philip Guston: Peintures 1947–1979. Exh. cat. Paris: Centre Georges Pompidou, 2000, illus. in color p. 62
Philip Guston Tableaux / Paintings 1947 - 1979. Exh. cat. Ostfildern: Hatje Cantz Publishers, 2000, illus. in color p. 93
Greenwald, Xico. "Guston at 100." New York Sun, March 19, 2013. Online, mentioned in text and illus. in color in accompanying slide show online
Yau, John. "Philip Guston's Line." Hyperallergic, March 24, 2013. Online, illus. in color
Radell, Thaddeus. "Philip Guston: A Problematic Centennial." Painting Perceptions. Blog. April 2, 2013. Online, mentioned in text, not illus.
Eye on Art: Paintings and Sculpture. New York: Blouin ArtInfo, April 16, 2013. Video, illus. in color
Slifkin, Robert. Out of Time: Philip Guston and the Refiguration of Postwar American Art. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2013, illus. in b&w fig. 12 p. 40
Art It. "Philip Guston and the Poets @ Gallerie dell'Accademia di Venezia." May 25, 2017. Online, illus. in color as part of an installation photo
Philip Guston & The Poets. Exh. cat. Essay by Kosme de Barañano. Hauser & Wirth, 2017, illus. in color p. 16
Guston, Philip. I Paint What I Want To See. Penguin Classics, 2022, mentioned in text p. 205, not illus.
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Title
Book
Date
1968
Medium
Gouache on panel
Dimensions
30 × 32 in. (76.2 × 81.3 cm)
Inscription
Signed front lower left: Philip Guston; inscribed on reverse: PHILIP GUSTON/ GOUACHE/ “BOOK” [underlined]/ 1968/ 30 x 32/ N.F.S. [underlined]
Catalogue Number
P68.001
Provenance
Promised gift of Musa Guston Mayer to The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Exhibitions
Bibliography
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