Philip Guston
Catalogue Raisonné

Title
Night
Date
1972
Medium
Oil on canvas
Dimensions
66½ x 79¾ in.168.9 x 202.6 cm
Inscription
Signed front lower left: Philip Guston; inscribed on reverse: PHILIP GUSTON/ "NIGHT" [underlined] - 1972/ OIL - 66 1/2 x 79 3/8
Catalogue No.
P72.038
Provenance
National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, Felton Bequest, 1988
Exhibitions
Boston University Art Gallery, Boston, MA, "Philip Guston: New Paintings", March 15, 1974 - April 14, 1974
Whitechapel Gallery, London, England, "Philip Guston: Paintings 1969 - 1980", October 13, 1982 - December 12, 1982
Whitechapel Gallery, London, England, "Philip Guston: Paintings 1969 - 1980", October 13, 1982 - December 12, 1982
Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, Netherlands, "Philip Guston: Schilderijen 1969 - 1980", January 13, 1983 - February 27, 1983
Kunsthalle Basel, Basel, Switzerland, "Philip Guston: Paintings 1969 - 1980", May 08, 1983 - June 19, 1983
Bibliography
Philip Guston New Paintings. Exh. cat. Boston: Boston University, 1974, cat. no. 11, illus. in b&w unnumbered page
Coolidge, Clark. "Clark Coolidge Class 1." Naropa Institute Jack Kerouac School of Disembodied Poetics, Boulder, July 1, 1980, Audio recording, mentioned and read poem inspired by it
Nicholas Serota, ed. Philip Guston: Paintings 1969–1980. Exh. cat. London: Whitechapel Art Gallery, 1982, cat. no. 7, illus. in color p. 19 (unpaginated)
Zaller, Robert. "Philip Guston and the Crisis of the Image." Critical Inquiry 14, no. 1 (1987): pp. 69–94, mentioned in footnote 13 p. 88, not illus.
"Portfolio and Documents: Philip Guston." TO: A Journal of Poetry, Prose & the Visual Arts 2, no. 3–4 (1994): pp. 159–206, illus. in b&w p. 171
McGrath, Patrick. "Philip Guston: Head and Bottle, 1975." Artforum, February 1995, mentioned in text p. 63, not illus.
Gott, Ted. Twentieth Century Painting and Sculpture in the International Collections of the National Gallery of Victoria. Melbourne: National Gallery of Victoria, 2003, p. 103
Bucklow, Christopher. What Is in the Dwat: The Universe of Guston's Final Decade. Grasmere, England: Wordsworth Trust, 2007, detail illus. in color p. 94
Coolidge, Clark. 16 Poems for Philip Guston. with an afterword by Rachael Guynn Wilson. Portland: Container Corps, 2021, illus. in color opposite p. 11
Street, Benjamin James. "Painting Floods: History, Witness and Public Address in Philip Guston's Late Work." PhD diss. University of Easy Anglia, 2024, mentioned in text p. 114, not illus.
Coolidge, Clark. "Clark Coolidge Class 1." Naropa Institute Jack Kerouac School of Disembodied Poetics, Boulder, July 1, 1980, Audio recording, mentioned and read poem inspired by it
Nicholas Serota, ed. Philip Guston: Paintings 1969–1980. Exh. cat. London: Whitechapel Art Gallery, 1982, cat. no. 7, illus. in color p. 19 (unpaginated)
Zaller, Robert. "Philip Guston and the Crisis of the Image." Critical Inquiry 14, no. 1 (1987): pp. 69–94, mentioned in footnote 13 p. 88, not illus.
"Portfolio and Documents: Philip Guston." TO: A Journal of Poetry, Prose & the Visual Arts 2, no. 3–4 (1994): pp. 159–206, illus. in b&w p. 171
McGrath, Patrick. "Philip Guston: Head and Bottle, 1975." Artforum, February 1995, mentioned in text p. 63, not illus.
Gott, Ted. Twentieth Century Painting and Sculpture in the International Collections of the National Gallery of Victoria. Melbourne: National Gallery of Victoria, 2003, p. 103
Bucklow, Christopher. What Is in the Dwat: The Universe of Guston's Final Decade. Grasmere, England: Wordsworth Trust, 2007, detail illus. in color p. 94
Coolidge, Clark. 16 Poems for Philip Guston. with an afterword by Rachael Guynn Wilson. Portland: Container Corps, 2021, illus. in color opposite p. 11
Street, Benjamin James. "Painting Floods: History, Witness and Public Address in Philip Guston's Late Work." PhD diss. University of Easy Anglia, 2024, mentioned in text p. 114, not illus.
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Title
Night
Date
1972
Medium
Oil on canvas
Dimensions
66½ × 79¾ in. (168.9 × 202.6 cm)
Inscription
Signed front lower left: Philip Guston; inscribed on reverse: PHILIP GUSTON/ "NIGHT" [underlined] - 1972/ OIL - 66 1/2 x 79 3/8
Catalogue Number
P72.038
Provenance
National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, Felton Bequest, 1988
Exhibitions
Bibliography
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