Signed front lower left: Philip Guston; inscribed on reverse: PHILIP GUSTON/ "SMOKING I" (underlined) . 1973 (underlined)/ OIL . 52 3/4 x 54
Catalogue No.
P73.026
Provenance
Promised gift of Musa Guston Mayer to The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Exhibitions
Boston University Art Gallery, Boston, MA, "Philip Guston: New Paintings", March 15, 1974 - April 14, 1974 David McKee Gallery, New York, NY, "Philip Guston", November 15, 1974 - December 18, 1974 National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, Australia, "Philip Guston: The Late Works", August 17, 1984 - September 16, 1984 IVAM Institut Valencia d’Art Modern, Valencia, Spain, "Philip Guston One-Shot Painting", December 13, 2001 - March 03, 2002 Inverleith House, Edinburgh, Scotland, "Philip Guston (1913 - 1980): Late Paintings", July 25, 2012 - October 07, 2012 Hauser & Wirth, Hong Kong, "Philip Guston: A Painter's Forms, 1950-1979", May 29, 2018 - August 25, 2018
Bibliography
Rosenberg, Harold, and Philip Guston. "Conversations: Philip Guston and Harold Rosenberg: Guston's Recent Paintings." Boston University Journal 22, no. 3 (1974): pp. 43–58, illus. in b&w p. 58 and mentioned in text p. 44
Philip Guston. Exh. cat. New York: David McKee Gallery, 1974, cat. no. 15, not illus.
Philip Guston New Paintings. Exh. cat. Boston: Boston University, 1974, cat. no. 15, illus. in b&w unnumbered page, work listed as "Smoking"
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
Philip Guston. Exh. cat. New York: George Braziller, 1980, Fig. 10, illus. in b&w p. 27
Nicholas Serota, ed. Philip Guston: Paintings 1969–1980. Exh. cat. London: Whitechapel Art Gallery, 1982, illus. in b&w p. 54
Holloway, Memory. "Portrait of the Artist as an Insomniac." Age, August 1984, illus. p. 14
Philip Guston: The Late Works. Exh. cat. Melbourne: The National Gallery of Victoria, 1984, cat. no. 16, illus. in color p. 31. Also mentioned in text pp. 11 and 19.
Storr, Robert. Philip Guston. New York: Abbeville Modern Masters, 1986, illus. in b&w no. 4 p. 9
MacAdam, Barbara A. "Sorting out Sources." ARTnews, October 1990, illus. in b&w p. 106
"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. 175
Corbett, William. Philip Guston's Late Work: A Memoir. Boston: Zoland Books, 1994, mentioned in text p. 47, not illus.
Jarque, Vincente. "Philip Guston, librepensador de la pintura." El País (Madrid), December 22, 2001, p. 22, illus.
Philip Guston: One-Shot-Paintings/De Un Solo Aliento. Exh. cat. Essays by Kosme de Barañano, María Jesús Folch, Fernando Gomez Aguilera, and Manuel Padorno. Valencia: IVAM, 2001. In association with Ediciones Aldeasa, unnumbered catalog, color plate p. 151
de Barañano, Kosme. "El ultimo aliento del Gigante Guston: Una treintena de óleos y varios dibujos-poema iluminan la obra tardía del creador." Masdearte.com, 2001. Online, illus. in color
Miralles, Carolina. "Philip Guston." La Glorieta, Arte, 2001, p. 7, illus.
Coolidge, Clark, ed. Philip Guston: Collected Writings, Lectures, and Conversations. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2011, mentioned in text pp. 269-70, not illus.
Bruce, Keith. "Between Pollock and Warhol." Herald (Glasgow), July 27, 2012, section Arts, p. 19, mentioned in text, not illus.
Jeffrey, Moira. "Different Strokes." Scotland on Sunday (Edinburgh), July 29, 2012, illus. in color and mentioned in text p. 12
Hamilton, Adrian. "Philip Guston: The Hand That Rocked the Art Establishment." Independent (London), August 20, 2012, section Arts & Entertainment, pp. 44-45, illus. in color and mentioned in text p. 45
Sooke, Alastair. "Philip Guston: Late Paintings, Inverleith House, Review; Alastair Sooke Reviews Philip Guston: Late Paintings at Inverleith House, a New Exhibition Covering the Raging and Raw Later Work of American Painter." Telegraph (London), August 21, 2012. Online, mentioned in text, not illus.
James, Merlin. "Late Guston, Edinburgh." Burlington Magazine, November 2012, pp. 809–11, Fig. 84 illus. in color p. 810 and mentioned in text pp. 809 and 810
Sadler, Mark. "Philip Guston/Mick Peter, Inverleith House/Collective Gallery, Edinburgh, UK." Frieze, November–December 2012, mentioned in text, not illus.
Philip Guston: Late Paintings. Exh. cat. Edinburgh: Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh, 2012, cat. no. 7, illus. in color (unpaginated)
Pfeiffer, Ingrid, and Max Hollein, eds. Philip Guston Das Grosse Spatwerk/Late Works. Exh. cat. Cologne: Strzeleckibooks, 2013, illus. in color fig. 3 p. 128 ("Philip Guston Talking: A Lecture at the University of Minnesota") and mentioned in text p. 128 (English)/129 (German)
Burnett, Craig. Philip Guston: The Studio. London: Afterall Books, 2014, mentioned in text pp. 67, 89 and 90
Mayer, Musa. Night Studio: Un ritratto intimo di Philip Guston. Monza: Johan & Levi, 2017, illus. in b&w p. 194 as part of a photo of Guston
The Works. "'Cabinets of Curiosities,' Richard Serra's Drawings, Philip Guston & in the studio: CUHK Chorus's 'Bernstein in the Theatre.'" Executive production by Diana Wan. RHK31, Hongkong, June 13, 2018. Television, illus. in color as part of an installation photo
ArtAsiaPacific (Hong Kong). "A Painter's Forms: Interview with Musa Mayer." Blog. June 27, 2018, illus. in color and mentioned in text
Masters, HG. "A Painter's Forms: Interview with Musa Mayer." ArtAsiaPacific (Hong Kong), June 27, 2018. Online, illus. in color and mentioned in text
Hauser & Wirth Hong Kong Issue no. 1: Philip Guston. Exh. guide. Zurich: Hauser & Wirth, 2018, illus. in color p. 55
Seo, Yoo Byung. "My God, Did I Do That?" Heren, July 2018, pp. 224-229, illus. in color p. 224
Storr, Robert. Philip Guston: A Life Spent Painting. London: Laurence King Publishing, 2020, No. 156 illus. in color p. 154, illus. in color p. 323 as part of a photo of Guston, illus. in color p. 324 as part of an installation photo and mentioned in text p. 153
Coolidge, Clark. 16 Poems for Philip Guston. with an afterword by Rachael Guynn Wilson. Portland: Container Corps, 2021, illus. in color opposite p. 15
Luke, Ben. "The enigma of Philip Guston: two books unpack artist's fascination with dualities." Art Newspaper, May 24, 2022. Online, illus. in color as part of a photo with Guston
Pogrebin, Robin. "More Than 200 Philip Guston Works Are Headed to the Met." New York Times, December 14, 2022. Online, illus. in color as part of a photo with Guston
Guston, Philip. I Paint What I Want To See. Penguin Classics, 2022, mentioned in text p. 223, not illus.
Coolidge, Clark, ed. Philip Guston: Que peindre sinon l'énigme. Translated by Éric Suchère. Strasbourg: L'Atelier Contemporain, 2023, mentioned in text p. 532, not illus.
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. 105, not illus.
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