Philip Guston
Catalogue Raisonné
Title
Sentimental Moment
Date
1943 - 1944
Medium
Oil on canvas
Dimensions
46¼ x 26 in.117.5 x 66.0 cm
Inscription
Signed front lower right: Philip Guston
Catalogue No.
P44.001
Provenance
Collection Unknown
Auction: Christie's, Post-War and Contemporary Art (Morning Session), November 9, 2005, Lot 271
Private Collection
Auction: Sotheby's New York, Contemporary Art, Part II, May 3, 1995, Lot 216
IBM International Foundation
Exhibitions
Midtown Gallery, New York, NY, "Philip Guston", January 15, 1945 - February 10, 1945
Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., "The Nineteenth Biennial Exhibition of Contemporary American Oil Paintings", March 18, 1945 - April 29, 1945
Carnegie Institute, Pittsburgh, PA, "Painting in the United States 1945", October 11, 1945 - December 09, 1945
Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, NY, "Eighty New Paintings", April 05, 1946 - May 05, 1946
Toledo Museum of Art, Toledo, OH, "Fifty-Four Paintings by Contemporary American Artists: 33rd Annual Exhibition of Selected American Paintings", June 02, 1946 - August 25, 1946
University Galleries, University of Nebraska, Morrill Hall, Lincoln, NE, "Nebraska Art Association 57th Annual Exhibition of Contemporary Art", March 02, 1947 - March 30, 1947
Pan American Union, Washington, D.C., "Art of the Americas: In Celebration of Pan American Week", April 12, 1955 - May 03, 1955
U.S. Embassy, Montevideo, Montevideo, Uruguay, "Art in Embassies Program", 1964
IBM Gallery of Science and Art, New York, NY, "[Unknown Title]", 1964 - 1965
U.S. Embassy, Montevideo, Montevideo, Uruguay, "Art in Embassies Program", 1965 - 1967
IBM Gallery of Science and Art, New York, NY, "Portraits from the IBM Collection", June 19, 1967 - July 21, 1967
Kenosha Public Museum, Kenosha, WI, "Portraits by Americans", January 06, 1968 - February 08, 1968
Anderson Fine Arts Center, Anderson, IN, "Portraits by Americans", 1970
San José Museum of Art, San Jose, CA, "Portraits by Americans: 18 Portraits from the IBM Collection", 1976 - January 31, 1977
IBM Gallery of Science and Art, New York, NY, "Selected Works from the IBM Collection", November 05, 1985 - January 04, 1986
IBM Gallery of Science and Art, New York, NY, "Portraits from the IBM Gallery of Science and Art", March 15, 1994 - June 11, 1994
Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., "The Nineteenth Biennial Exhibition of Contemporary American Oil Paintings", March 18, 1945 - April 29, 1945
Carnegie Institute, Pittsburgh, PA, "Painting in the United States 1945", October 11, 1945 - December 09, 1945
Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, NY, "Eighty New Paintings", April 05, 1946 - May 05, 1946
Toledo Museum of Art, Toledo, OH, "Fifty-Four Paintings by Contemporary American Artists: 33rd Annual Exhibition of Selected American Paintings", June 02, 1946 - August 25, 1946
University Galleries, University of Nebraska, Morrill Hall, Lincoln, NE, "Nebraska Art Association 57th Annual Exhibition of Contemporary Art", March 02, 1947 - March 30, 1947
Pan American Union, Washington, D.C., "Art of the Americas: In Celebration of Pan American Week", April 12, 1955 - May 03, 1955
U.S. Embassy, Montevideo, Montevideo, Uruguay, "Art in Embassies Program", 1964
IBM Gallery of Science and Art, New York, NY, "[Unknown Title]", 1964 - 1965
U.S. Embassy, Montevideo, Montevideo, Uruguay, "Art in Embassies Program", 1965 - 1967
IBM Gallery of Science and Art, New York, NY, "Portraits from the IBM Collection", June 19, 1967 - July 21, 1967
Kenosha Public Museum, Kenosha, WI, "Portraits by Americans", January 06, 1968 - February 08, 1968
St. Olaf Center, St. Olaf College, Northfield, MN, "Portraits by Americans", February 14, 1968 - March 08, 1968
Morningside College, Sioux City, IA, "Portraits by Americans", March 14, 1968 - April 08, 1968
State University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA, "Portraits by Americans", April 11, 1968 - May 09, 1968
Decatur Art Center, Decatur, IL, "Portraits by Americans", May 14, 1968 - June 07, 1968
J.N. Bergstrom Art Center & Museum, Neenah, WI, "Portraits by Americans", September 09, 1968 - October 04, 1968
Laura Musser Art Gallery & Museum, Muscatine, IA, "Portraits by Americans", October 13, 1968 - October 30, 1968
Anderson Fine Arts Center, Anderson, IN, "Portraits by Americans", 1970
San José Museum of Art, San Jose, CA, "Portraits by Americans: 18 Portraits from the IBM Collection", 1976 - January 31, 1977
IBM Gallery of Science and Art, New York, NY, "Selected Works from the IBM Collection", November 05, 1985 - January 04, 1986
IBM Gallery of Science and Art, New York, NY, "Portraits from the IBM Gallery of Science and Art", March 15, 1994 - June 11, 1994
Bibliography
Breuning, Margaret. "Philip Guston Impresses in New York Debut." Art Digest, January 15, 1945, p. 12, mentioned in text, not illus.
F[rost], R[osamund]. "Guston: Meaning out of Monumentality." ARTnews, February 1, 1945, p. 24, mentioned in text, not illus.
Frost, Rosamund. "The Corcoran Carries On." ARTnews, April 1, 1945, pp. 18–19, 42, 44, illus. in color p. 19 and mentioned in text p. 42
Smith, L'Louise. "Life's Interest, Life's Work—Guston Likes to Paint." Daily Iowan, May 23, 1945, p. 3, mentioned in text, not illus.
Limited Edition. "Carnegie Awards Prizes for 1945." October 1945, pp. 7-8, illus. in b&w and mentioned in text p. 7
[Publication unknown]. "Carnegie Exhibition." October 1945, mentioned in text, not illus.
St. Louis Globe-Democrat. "W. U. Artist Wins First Prize at Carnegie Show." October 12, 1945, illus. in b&w
Redd, Penelope. "'Sentimental Moment' Art Show Prize Winner." Pittsburgh Sun-Telegraph, October 12, 1945, mentioned in text, not illus.
Des Moines Register. "Iowan's $1,000 Prize Painting." October 12, 1945, p. 11, illus. in b&w and mentioned in text
"Today's Best Pictures: Winners in Carnegie Exhibition." Pittsburgh Sun-Telegraph, October 12, 1945, section 2, illus. in b&w
St. Louis Star-Times. "W.U. Teacher Wins 1st Prize in Carnegie Art Exhibition." October 12, 1945, illus. in b&w
St. Louis Post-Dispatch. "Prize Winner." October 12, 1945. Print.
St. Louis Star-Times. "Prize Day at W.U." October 12, 1945, p. 22, mentioned in text, not illus.
Iowa City Press-Citizen. "Philip Guston Earns $1,000 Award as 1st Place Winner In Carnegie Institute Show." October 12, 1945, p. 2, mentioned in text, not illus.
Hovey, Walter Reed. "Repose and Dignity Mark Top Painting of Carnegie Exhibit." Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, October 12, 1945, pp. 1, 4, illus. in b&w p. 1 and mentioned in text p. 4
St. Louis Post-Dispatch. "St. Louisan's Painting First-Prize Winner: Carnegie Institute Award to Prof. Philip Guston for 'Sentimental Moment.'" October 12, 1945, mentioned in text, not illus.
Naylor, Douglas. "Iowan's Painting Wins First Prize at Art Show." Pittsburgh Press, October 12, 1945, p. 16, illus. in b&w and mentioned in text
"Iowan's Painting Wins First in Carnegie Art Contest." Chicago Sun-Times, October 12, 1945, mentioned in text, not illus.
Jewell, Edward Alden. "Guston Painting Wins Top Prize at Carnegie Institute Exhibition." The New York Times, October 12, 1945, illus. in b&w
Genauer, Emily. "This Week in Art: Carnegie." New York World-Telegram, October 13, 1945. Print, illus. in b&w and mentioned in text
Jewell, Edward Alden. "Annual Carnegie Survey." The New York Times, October 14, 1945, p. 7X, illus. in b&w
Gibbs, Jo. "Carnegie Exhibition Provides True Cross-Section of U.S. Painting." Art Digest, October 15, 1945, pp. 5–6, 19, illus. in b&w on cover and mentioned in text p. 5
Kaufmann, Edgar. "Coming Home to the Carnegie." ARTnews, October 15, 1945, pp. 10–13, detail illus. in b&w p. 10, mentioned in text pp. 12-13
Pittsburgh Press Roto. "Carnegie Art Show Winners." October 21, 1945, illus. in color on front cover
Time. "Prizewinners." October 22, 1945, p. 77, illus. in b&w
The Blizzard (Oil City, PA). "Artist Is Kin of City Woman," October 24, 1945, p. 2, mentioned in text, not illus.
Grafly, Dorothy. "Painting in the U.S. 1945" Art Outlook, October 25, 1945. Print, mentioned in text, not illus.
Greater Pittsburgh [Chamber of Commerce]. "1945 Carnegie Prize Winner." November 1945, p. 24, illus. in b&w
O'Connor, John, Jr. "Painting in the United States, 1945." Carnegie Magazine, November 1945, pp. 139–40, illus. in b&w on cover and mentioned in text pp. 139-140
Bier, Justus. "Art: Carnegie's Exhibit of U.S. Paintings Is Memorable." Louisville Courier-Journal, November 11, 1945, illus. in b&w
The Nineteenth Biennial Exhibition of Contemporary American Oil Paintings. Exh. cat. Washington D.C.: Corcoran Gallery of Art, 1945, cat. no. 17, not illus.
Philip Guston. Exh. cat. New York: Midtown Galleries, 1945, cat. no. 2, illus. in b&w on inside cover, listed as having been done in 1944
Painting in the United States 1945. Exh. cat. Pittsburgh: Carnegie Institute, 1945, cat. no. 41, illus. in b&w Plate 1
Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh Art Room Books of Interest. Flyer. Carnegie Institute, 1945, illus. in b&w on front cover
Life. "Philip Guston: Carnegie Winner's Art is Abstract and Symbolic." May 27, 1946, pp. 90–92, illus. in color full page p. 91 (unpaginated). States that "Guston painted it in Iowa in 1944"
Toledo Sunday Times. "Painting Here." June 2, 1946, illus. in b&w
Toledo Blade. "Selected American Paintings Now on Exhibit at Museum." June 6, 1946, mentioned in text, not illus.
Fifty-Four Paintings by Contemporary American Artists, 33rd Annual Exhibition of Selected American Paintings. Exh. cat. Toledo: Toledo Museum of Art, 1946, cat. no. 16, not illus.
Book of the Year, 1946 ed.
Eighty New Paintings. Exh. cat. Buffalo: Albright Art Gallery, 1946, cat. no. 29, not illus., is listed as being done 1944-45
Gruskin, A. D. Painting in the U.S.A. Garden City: Doubleday, 1946, illus. in color p. 88
Hayes, Helen Mary. "Technique of Living Pictures Excellent." Lincoln Journal Star (Nebraska), March 3, 1947, p. 8, mentioned in text, not illus.
Janson, H. W. "Un gran artista moderno: Philip Guston." Indice de las Artes, October 1947, pp. 1–2, mentioned in text p. 2, not illus.
Nebraska Art Association 57th Annual Exhibition of Contemporary Art. Exh. cat. Lincoln: University of Nebraska, 1947, cat. no. 73, not illus.
Larkin, Oliver W. Art and Life in America. New York: Rinehart, 1949, mentioned in text p. 474, not illus.
Time. "One Explanation." January 7, 1952, p. 56, mentioned in text, not illus.
Art of the Americas in celebration of Pan American Week. Exh. cat. Washington, D.C.: Pan American Union, 1955, illus.
Alloway, Lawrence. "Book Reviews: Ashton on Guston." Arts Review, July 23–August 12, 1961, pp. 17, 20, mentioned in text p. 17, not illus.
Levin, Kim. "Guston." In Art USA Now: 102 Vital Contemporary American Painters, vol. 1. Edited by Lee Nordness. Lucerne: C. J. Bucher, 1962, b&w illus. no. 1 p. 219 (unpaginated)
Genauer, Emily. "Guston 'Negatives' versus Impressionist Positives." New York Herald Tribune, January 16, 1966, p. 27, mentioned in text, not illus.
Anderson, Glenn. "American Artists Subject of New Gallery Exhibit." Anderson (IN) Herald, June 14, 1970, p. 34, mentioned in text, not illus.
Moritz, Charles, ed. Current Biography, February 1971, pp. 10-13, mentioned in text p. 11, not illus.
Moritz, Charles, ed. Current Biography Yearbook 1971. New York: H. W. Wilson, 1971, pp. 176-178, mentioned in text p. 176, not illus.
Diamonstein, Barbaralee, ed. The Art World: A Seventy-Five Treasury of ARTnews. New York: Rizzoli, 1977, illus. in b&w p. 194
Brach, Paul. "Looking at Guston." Art in America, November 1980, pp. 96–101, mentioned in text p. 96, not illus.
Hanson, Bernard. "Guston's Fine Lines and Gray Areas." Hartford Courant, August 23, 1981, p. G2, mentioned in text, not illus.
Philip Guston: The Late Works. Exh. cat. Melbourne: The National Gallery of Victoria, 1984, mentioned in text p. 60 as part of Chronology, not illus.
Mayer, Musa. Night Studio: A Memoir of Philip Guston by His Daughter. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1988, mentioned in text pp. 8, 36 and 37, not illus.
Mayer, Musa. Night Studio: A Memoir of Philip Guston by His Daughter. 1988. Reprint, New York: Penguin, 1990, mentioned in text pp. 8, 36 and 37, not illus.
Mayer, Musa. Night Studio: A Memoir of Philip Guston. 1988. Reprint, London: Thames and Hudson, 1991, mentioned in text pp. 8, 36 and 37, not illus.
Kingsley, April. The Turning Point: The Abstract Expressionists and the Transformation of American Art. New York: Simon & Schuster, 1992, mentioned in text p. 322, not illus.
Corbett, William. "Excerpt from 'Philip Guston's Late Works: A Memoir.'" Arshile: A Magazine of the Arts (Los Angeles), 1993, mentioned in text p. 150, not illus.
Shapiro, Michael Edward. "Philip Guston: The War Years." Print Collector's Newsletter, September–October 1994, mentioned in text p. 128, not illus.
Corbett, William. "Guston's Guston: How One Bold Artist Saw His Place in the Universe." Boston Phoenix, September 23, 1994, section Arts & Entertainment, p. 10, mentioned in text, not illus.
Corbett, William. Philip Guston's Late Work: A Memoir. Boston: Zoland Books, 1994, mentioned in text p. 68, not illus.
Mayer, Musa. Night Studio: A Memoir of Philip Guston. Reprint, Boston: Da Capo Press, 1997, mentioned in text pp. 8, 36 and 37, not illus.
Philip Guston Tableaux / Paintings 1947 - 1979. Exh. cat. Ostfildern: Hatje Cantz Publishers, 2000, mentioned in text p. 132, not illus.
Sylvester, David. Interviews with American Artists. London: Chatto and Windus, 2001, mentioned in biographical notes p. 366 as "Sentinel Moment," not illus.
Sylvester, David. Interviews with American Artists. New Haven: Yale University Press, January 2002, mentioned in text p. 366, not illus.
Danto, Arthur C. "The Abstract Impressionist." Nation, December 11, 2003. Online, mentioned in text, not illus.
Auping, Michael. Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, Philip Guston Retrospective. Exh. cat. Hardcover ed. London: Thames & Hudson, 2003, mentioned in text p. 31 (Michael E. Shapiro essay), not illus.
Auping, Michael. Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, Philip Guston Retrospective. Exh. cat. London: Thames & Hudson, 2003, mentioned in text p. 31, not. illus.
Danto, Arthur Coleman. Unnatural Wonders: Essays from the Gap Between Art and Life. New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2005, mentioned in text pp. 132-133 and 138, not illus.
Botelho, Manuel. Guston em contexto: até ao regresso da figura. Lisbon: Livros Vendaval, 2007, mentioned in text p. 63, not illus.
Shoemaker, Innis Howe. Adventures in Modern Art: The Charles K. Williams II Collection. Exh. cat. Philadelphia: Philadelphia Museum of Art, 2009, mentioned in footnote 5 p. 169, not illus.
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. 36 p. 77
Pfeiffer, Ingrid, and Max Hollein, eds. Philip Guston Das Grosse Spatwerk/Late Works. Exh. cat. Cologne: Strzeleckibooks, 2013, mentioned in text p. 140 (English)/141 (German), not illus.
Mayer, Musa. Night Studio: A Memoir of Philip Guston. 1988. Reprint, Munich: Sieveking Verlag; Zurich: Hauser & Wirth, 2016, illus. no. 29, illus. in color p. 57 and mentioned in text pp. 12, 58 and 60
Mayer, Musa. Night Studio: Un ritratto intimo di Philip Guston. Monza: Johan & Levi, 2017, illus. in color fig. 10 (following p. 64) and mentioned in text pp. 14, 50 and 51
Mayer, Musa. Resilience: Philip Guston in 1971. Exh. cat. Zurich: Hauser & Wirth Publishers, 2019, mentioned in text p. 21, not illus.
Mcllhagga, Samuel. "Philip Guston's Controversial Embrace of Figuration Still Shapes His Market." Artsy, November 3, 2020. Online, mentioned in text, not illus.
Cooper, Harry, Mark Godfrey, Alison de Lima Greene, and Kate Nesin. Philip Guston Now. Exh. cat. Washington D.C.: National Gallery of Art, 2020, mentioned in text pp. 227 and 228, not illus.
Storr, Robert. Philip Guston: A Life Spent Painting. London: Laurence King Publishing, 2020, No. 16 illus. in color p. 30, illus. in color p. 289 in a reproduction of a magazine clipping and mentioned in text p. 38
Mayer, Musa. Night Studio: A Memoir of Philip Guston. 1988. Reprint, Zurich: Hauser & Wirth, 2023, illus. no. 29, illus. in color p. 57 and mentioned in text pp. 12, 58 and 60
Philip Guston: The Irony of History. Paris: Editions Gallimard, 2025, mentioned in text p. 199, not illus.
Philip Guston: L'Ironie de L'Histoire. Paris: Editions Gallimard, 2025, mentioned in text p. 199, not illus.
Guston, Musa McKim. Life with P. Journals, 1966-1976. Edited by Musa Mayer. Hauser & Wirth, 2026, mentioned in text p. 179, not illus.
F[rost], R[osamund]. "Guston: Meaning out of Monumentality." ARTnews, February 1, 1945, p. 24, mentioned in text, not illus.
Frost, Rosamund. "The Corcoran Carries On." ARTnews, April 1, 1945, pp. 18–19, 42, 44, illus. in color p. 19 and mentioned in text p. 42
Smith, L'Louise. "Life's Interest, Life's Work—Guston Likes to Paint." Daily Iowan, May 23, 1945, p. 3, mentioned in text, not illus.
Limited Edition. "Carnegie Awards Prizes for 1945." October 1945, pp. 7-8, illus. in b&w and mentioned in text p. 7
[Publication unknown]. "Carnegie Exhibition." October 1945, mentioned in text, not illus.
St. Louis Globe-Democrat. "W. U. Artist Wins First Prize at Carnegie Show." October 12, 1945, illus. in b&w
Redd, Penelope. "'Sentimental Moment' Art Show Prize Winner." Pittsburgh Sun-Telegraph, October 12, 1945, mentioned in text, not illus.
Des Moines Register. "Iowan's $1,000 Prize Painting." October 12, 1945, p. 11, illus. in b&w and mentioned in text
"Today's Best Pictures: Winners in Carnegie Exhibition." Pittsburgh Sun-Telegraph, October 12, 1945, section 2, illus. in b&w
St. Louis Star-Times. "W.U. Teacher Wins 1st Prize in Carnegie Art Exhibition." October 12, 1945, illus. in b&w
St. Louis Post-Dispatch. "Prize Winner." October 12, 1945. Print.
St. Louis Star-Times. "Prize Day at W.U." October 12, 1945, p. 22, mentioned in text, not illus.
Iowa City Press-Citizen. "Philip Guston Earns $1,000 Award as 1st Place Winner In Carnegie Institute Show." October 12, 1945, p. 2, mentioned in text, not illus.
Hovey, Walter Reed. "Repose and Dignity Mark Top Painting of Carnegie Exhibit." Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, October 12, 1945, pp. 1, 4, illus. in b&w p. 1 and mentioned in text p. 4
St. Louis Post-Dispatch. "St. Louisan's Painting First-Prize Winner: Carnegie Institute Award to Prof. Philip Guston for 'Sentimental Moment.'" October 12, 1945, mentioned in text, not illus.
Naylor, Douglas. "Iowan's Painting Wins First Prize at Art Show." Pittsburgh Press, October 12, 1945, p. 16, illus. in b&w and mentioned in text
"Iowan's Painting Wins First in Carnegie Art Contest." Chicago Sun-Times, October 12, 1945, mentioned in text, not illus.
Jewell, Edward Alden. "Guston Painting Wins Top Prize at Carnegie Institute Exhibition." The New York Times, October 12, 1945, illus. in b&w
Genauer, Emily. "This Week in Art: Carnegie." New York World-Telegram, October 13, 1945. Print, illus. in b&w and mentioned in text
Jewell, Edward Alden. "Annual Carnegie Survey." The New York Times, October 14, 1945, p. 7X, illus. in b&w
Gibbs, Jo. "Carnegie Exhibition Provides True Cross-Section of U.S. Painting." Art Digest, October 15, 1945, pp. 5–6, 19, illus. in b&w on cover and mentioned in text p. 5
Kaufmann, Edgar. "Coming Home to the Carnegie." ARTnews, October 15, 1945, pp. 10–13, detail illus. in b&w p. 10, mentioned in text pp. 12-13
Pittsburgh Press Roto. "Carnegie Art Show Winners." October 21, 1945, illus. in color on front cover
Time. "Prizewinners." October 22, 1945, p. 77, illus. in b&w
The Blizzard (Oil City, PA). "Artist Is Kin of City Woman," October 24, 1945, p. 2, mentioned in text, not illus.
Grafly, Dorothy. "Painting in the U.S. 1945" Art Outlook, October 25, 1945. Print, mentioned in text, not illus.
Greater Pittsburgh [Chamber of Commerce]. "1945 Carnegie Prize Winner." November 1945, p. 24, illus. in b&w
O'Connor, John, Jr. "Painting in the United States, 1945." Carnegie Magazine, November 1945, pp. 139–40, illus. in b&w on cover and mentioned in text pp. 139-140
Bier, Justus. "Art: Carnegie's Exhibit of U.S. Paintings Is Memorable." Louisville Courier-Journal, November 11, 1945, illus. in b&w
The Nineteenth Biennial Exhibition of Contemporary American Oil Paintings. Exh. cat. Washington D.C.: Corcoran Gallery of Art, 1945, cat. no. 17, not illus.
Philip Guston. Exh. cat. New York: Midtown Galleries, 1945, cat. no. 2, illus. in b&w on inside cover, listed as having been done in 1944
Painting in the United States 1945. Exh. cat. Pittsburgh: Carnegie Institute, 1945, cat. no. 41, illus. in b&w Plate 1
Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh Art Room Books of Interest. Flyer. Carnegie Institute, 1945, illus. in b&w on front cover
Life. "Philip Guston: Carnegie Winner's Art is Abstract and Symbolic." May 27, 1946, pp. 90–92, illus. in color full page p. 91 (unpaginated). States that "Guston painted it in Iowa in 1944"
Toledo Sunday Times. "Painting Here." June 2, 1946, illus. in b&w
Toledo Blade. "Selected American Paintings Now on Exhibit at Museum." June 6, 1946, mentioned in text, not illus.
Fifty-Four Paintings by Contemporary American Artists, 33rd Annual Exhibition of Selected American Paintings. Exh. cat. Toledo: Toledo Museum of Art, 1946, cat. no. 16, not illus.
Book of the Year, 1946 ed.
Eighty New Paintings. Exh. cat. Buffalo: Albright Art Gallery, 1946, cat. no. 29, not illus., is listed as being done 1944-45
Gruskin, A. D. Painting in the U.S.A. Garden City: Doubleday, 1946, illus. in color p. 88
Hayes, Helen Mary. "Technique of Living Pictures Excellent." Lincoln Journal Star (Nebraska), March 3, 1947, p. 8, mentioned in text, not illus.
Janson, H. W. "Un gran artista moderno: Philip Guston." Indice de las Artes, October 1947, pp. 1–2, mentioned in text p. 2, not illus.
Nebraska Art Association 57th Annual Exhibition of Contemporary Art. Exh. cat. Lincoln: University of Nebraska, 1947, cat. no. 73, not illus.
Larkin, Oliver W. Art and Life in America. New York: Rinehart, 1949, mentioned in text p. 474, not illus.
Time. "One Explanation." January 7, 1952, p. 56, mentioned in text, not illus.
Art of the Americas in celebration of Pan American Week. Exh. cat. Washington, D.C.: Pan American Union, 1955, illus.
Alloway, Lawrence. "Book Reviews: Ashton on Guston." Arts Review, July 23–August 12, 1961, pp. 17, 20, mentioned in text p. 17, not illus.
Levin, Kim. "Guston." In Art USA Now: 102 Vital Contemporary American Painters, vol. 1. Edited by Lee Nordness. Lucerne: C. J. Bucher, 1962, b&w illus. no. 1 p. 219 (unpaginated)
Genauer, Emily. "Guston 'Negatives' versus Impressionist Positives." New York Herald Tribune, January 16, 1966, p. 27, mentioned in text, not illus.
Anderson, Glenn. "American Artists Subject of New Gallery Exhibit." Anderson (IN) Herald, June 14, 1970, p. 34, mentioned in text, not illus.
Moritz, Charles, ed. Current Biography, February 1971, pp. 10-13, mentioned in text p. 11, not illus.
Moritz, Charles, ed. Current Biography Yearbook 1971. New York: H. W. Wilson, 1971, pp. 176-178, mentioned in text p. 176, not illus.
Diamonstein, Barbaralee, ed. The Art World: A Seventy-Five Treasury of ARTnews. New York: Rizzoli, 1977, illus. in b&w p. 194
Brach, Paul. "Looking at Guston." Art in America, November 1980, pp. 96–101, mentioned in text p. 96, not illus.
Hanson, Bernard. "Guston's Fine Lines and Gray Areas." Hartford Courant, August 23, 1981, p. G2, mentioned in text, not illus.
Philip Guston: The Late Works. Exh. cat. Melbourne: The National Gallery of Victoria, 1984, mentioned in text p. 60 as part of Chronology, not illus.
Mayer, Musa. Night Studio: A Memoir of Philip Guston by His Daughter. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1988, mentioned in text pp. 8, 36 and 37, not illus.
Mayer, Musa. Night Studio: A Memoir of Philip Guston by His Daughter. 1988. Reprint, New York: Penguin, 1990, mentioned in text pp. 8, 36 and 37, not illus.
Mayer, Musa. Night Studio: A Memoir of Philip Guston. 1988. Reprint, London: Thames and Hudson, 1991, mentioned in text pp. 8, 36 and 37, not illus.
Kingsley, April. The Turning Point: The Abstract Expressionists and the Transformation of American Art. New York: Simon & Schuster, 1992, mentioned in text p. 322, not illus.
Corbett, William. "Excerpt from 'Philip Guston's Late Works: A Memoir.'" Arshile: A Magazine of the Arts (Los Angeles), 1993, mentioned in text p. 150, not illus.
Shapiro, Michael Edward. "Philip Guston: The War Years." Print Collector's Newsletter, September–October 1994, mentioned in text p. 128, not illus.
Corbett, William. "Guston's Guston: How One Bold Artist Saw His Place in the Universe." Boston Phoenix, September 23, 1994, section Arts & Entertainment, p. 10, mentioned in text, not illus.
Corbett, William. Philip Guston's Late Work: A Memoir. Boston: Zoland Books, 1994, mentioned in text p. 68, not illus.
Mayer, Musa. Night Studio: A Memoir of Philip Guston. Reprint, Boston: Da Capo Press, 1997, mentioned in text pp. 8, 36 and 37, not illus.
Philip Guston Tableaux / Paintings 1947 - 1979. Exh. cat. Ostfildern: Hatje Cantz Publishers, 2000, mentioned in text p. 132, not illus.
Sylvester, David. Interviews with American Artists. London: Chatto and Windus, 2001, mentioned in biographical notes p. 366 as "Sentinel Moment," not illus.
Sylvester, David. Interviews with American Artists. New Haven: Yale University Press, January 2002, mentioned in text p. 366, not illus.
Danto, Arthur C. "The Abstract Impressionist." Nation, December 11, 2003. Online, mentioned in text, not illus.
Auping, Michael. Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, Philip Guston Retrospective. Exh. cat. Hardcover ed. London: Thames & Hudson, 2003, mentioned in text p. 31 (Michael E. Shapiro essay), not illus.
Auping, Michael. Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, Philip Guston Retrospective. Exh. cat. London: Thames & Hudson, 2003, mentioned in text p. 31, not. illus.
Danto, Arthur Coleman. Unnatural Wonders: Essays from the Gap Between Art and Life. New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2005, mentioned in text pp. 132-133 and 138, not illus.
Botelho, Manuel. Guston em contexto: até ao regresso da figura. Lisbon: Livros Vendaval, 2007, mentioned in text p. 63, not illus.
Shoemaker, Innis Howe. Adventures in Modern Art: The Charles K. Williams II Collection. Exh. cat. Philadelphia: Philadelphia Museum of Art, 2009, mentioned in footnote 5 p. 169, not illus.
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. 36 p. 77
Pfeiffer, Ingrid, and Max Hollein, eds. Philip Guston Das Grosse Spatwerk/Late Works. Exh. cat. Cologne: Strzeleckibooks, 2013, mentioned in text p. 140 (English)/141 (German), not illus.
Mayer, Musa. Night Studio: A Memoir of Philip Guston. 1988. Reprint, Munich: Sieveking Verlag; Zurich: Hauser & Wirth, 2016, illus. no. 29, illus. in color p. 57 and mentioned in text pp. 12, 58 and 60
Mayer, Musa. Night Studio: Un ritratto intimo di Philip Guston. Monza: Johan & Levi, 2017, illus. in color fig. 10 (following p. 64) and mentioned in text pp. 14, 50 and 51
Mayer, Musa. Resilience: Philip Guston in 1971. Exh. cat. Zurich: Hauser & Wirth Publishers, 2019, mentioned in text p. 21, not illus.
Mcllhagga, Samuel. "Philip Guston's Controversial Embrace of Figuration Still Shapes His Market." Artsy, November 3, 2020. Online, mentioned in text, not illus.
Cooper, Harry, Mark Godfrey, Alison de Lima Greene, and Kate Nesin. Philip Guston Now. Exh. cat. Washington D.C.: National Gallery of Art, 2020, mentioned in text pp. 227 and 228, not illus.
Storr, Robert. Philip Guston: A Life Spent Painting. London: Laurence King Publishing, 2020, No. 16 illus. in color p. 30, illus. in color p. 289 in a reproduction of a magazine clipping and mentioned in text p. 38
Mayer, Musa. Night Studio: A Memoir of Philip Guston. 1988. Reprint, Zurich: Hauser & Wirth, 2023, illus. no. 29, illus. in color p. 57 and mentioned in text pp. 12, 58 and 60
Philip Guston: The Irony of History. Paris: Editions Gallimard, 2025, mentioned in text p. 199, not illus.
Philip Guston: L'Ironie de L'Histoire. Paris: Editions Gallimard, 2025, mentioned in text p. 199, not illus.
Guston, Musa McKim. Life with P. Journals, 1966-1976. Edited by Musa Mayer. Hauser & Wirth, 2026, mentioned in text p. 179, not illus.
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Title
Sentimental Moment
Date
1943–1944
Medium
Oil on canvas
Dimensions
46¼ × 26 in. (117.5 × 66.0 cm)
Inscription
Signed front lower right: Philip Guston
Catalogue Number
P44.001
Provenance
Collection Unknown
Auction: Christie's, Post-War and Contemporary Art (Morning Session), November 9, 2005, Lot 271
Private Collection
Auction: Sotheby's New York, Contemporary Art, Part II, May 3, 1995, Lot 216
IBM International Foundation
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