Philip Guston
Catalogue Raisonné
Title
Pittore
Date
1973
Medium
Oil on canvas
Dimensions
72¾ x 80½ in.184.8 x 204.5 cm
Inscription
Signed front lower left: Philip Guston
Catalogue No.
P73.031
Provenance
Promised gift of Musa Guston Mayer to The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Exhibitions
XVI Bienal Internacional de Sao Paulo, Sao Paulo, Brazil, "Philip Guston, Sus Ultimos Años", October 16, 1981 - December 20, 1981
Gallerie dell'Accademia, Venice, Italy, "Philip Guston and the Poets", May 10, 2017 - September 03, 2017
Institute of Contemporary Art, Miami, Miami, FL, "The Everywhere Studio", December 01, 2017 - February 26, 2018
Hauser & Wirth, New York, NY, "Philip Guston, 1969-1979", September 09, 2021 - October 30, 2021
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY, "Philip Guston: What Kind of Man Am I?", May 25, 2023 - August 02, 2023
Museo de Arte Moderno, Mexico City, Mexico, "Philip Guston, Sus Ultimos Años", February 1982 - March 1982
Centro de Arte Moderno, Guadalajara, Jalisco, Mexico, "Philip Guston, Sus Ultimos Años", April 1982 - May 1982
Museo de Arte Moderno de Bogotá, Bogota, Columbia, "Philip Guston, Sus Ultimos Años", July 1982 - August 1982
Gallerie dell'Accademia, Venice, Italy, "Philip Guston and the Poets", May 10, 2017 - September 03, 2017
Institute of Contemporary Art, Miami, Miami, FL, "The Everywhere Studio", December 01, 2017 - February 26, 2018
Hauser & Wirth, New York, NY, "Philip Guston, 1969-1979", September 09, 2021 - October 30, 2021
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY, "Philip Guston: What Kind of Man Am I?", May 25, 2023 - August 02, 2023
Bibliography
Philip Guston: Sus Ultimos Anos. Exh. cat. San Francisco: San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, 1981, cat. no. 5, illus. in b&w p. 12
XVI Bienal de Sao Paulo. Exh. cat. São Paulo: Pavilhão Engenheiro Armando Arruda Pereira, 1981, cat. no. 5, illus. in b&w p. 211
McGivern, Hannah. "Philip Guston Gets First Venice Museum Show: Accademia Exhibition Will Open for This Year's Venice Biennale, More Than 50 Years after the Artist Represented the US." Art Newspaper (London), January 31, 2017, section News. Online, illus. in color
ArteMagazine (Rome). "Alle Gallerie dell'Accademia la prima mostra veneziana dedicata a Philip Guston." February 1, 2017. Online, illus. in color
Nazif, Perwana. "Gallerie dell'Accademia to Host Philip Guston's First Museum Show in Venice," artnet News, February 1, 2017. Online, illus. in color
Sky Arte. "Philip Guston in arrivo a Venezia." February 1, 2017. Online, detail illus. in color
ArsNow Magazine (Padua). "Philip Guston and the Poets." February 2, 2017. Online, detail illus. in color
ARTE.it. "Philip Guston and the Poets." May 2017. Online, illus. in color
Amé, Francesca. "Le personali di Boetti, Pistoletto, Hockney, Tobey e Fabre, le collettive a tema, i progetti site-specific: un percorso attraverso tutti gli appuntamenti da non mancare." Arte (Rome), May 2017, illus. in color
Ferraioli, Mariecristina. "Biennale di Venezia: 10 mostre da vedere." Icon Design, May 2017. Online, detail illus. in color
Barina, Antonella. "Cosa Vi Cucinerò per la Biennale." Il Venerdì di Repubblica (Rome), May 5, 2017, illus. in color
Giacomelli, Marco Enrico. "Philip Guston, un grande artista a Venezia. Intervista con Paola Marini." Artribune (Rome), May 7, 2017, illus. in color as part of slideshow attached to article
Lucarelli, Niccolo. "Dal Rinascimento a Bukowski. Philip Guston pittore-poeta a Venezia." ArtsLife (Milan), May 11, 2017. Online, illus. in color
"Philip Guston and the Poets at Gallerie dell'Accademia di Venezia, May 10–September 3, 2017." Arts Summary. Blog. May 13, 2017. Online, illus. in color
Vallora, Marco. "Tra i poeti di Guston." La Stampa, TuttoLibri, May 20, 2017, p. 11, illus. in color
Hesse, Ewa. "Zwei Amis in Venedig." Der Bund (Bern), May 24, 2017. Online, illus. in color
Hesse, Ewa. "Zwei Amis in Venedig." Tages-Anzeiger (Zurich), May 24, 2017. Online, illus. in color
Art It. "Philip Guston and the Poets @ Gallerie dell'Accademia di Venezia." May 25, 2017. Online, illus. in color
Il Manifesto (Rome). "Guston, l'uomo ipnagogico." May 27, 2017. Online, illus. in color
Racca, Davide. "L'uomo ipnagogico raccontato dalla figlia." Alias Domenica (Mexico City), May 28, 2017, illus. in color
Silva, Sofia. "Le tre mostre de mese: Madrid, Venezia, New York." IL (Madrid), June 2017, illus. in color
Forlani, Maria Paola. "Philip Guston and the Poets: Le Gallerie dell'Accademia di Venezia presentano il lavoro del grande artista americano." estense.com, June 14, 2017. Online, illus. in color
Papi, Giancarlo. "Le licenze poetiche di Guston." Avvenire (Milan), June 16, 2017, p. 14, illus. and mentioned in text
De Santis, Silvia. "10 cose da non perdere del Fuori Biennale di Venezia (secondo Luca Massimo Barbero)." Huffington Post, June 26, 2017, International edition. Online, illus. in color as part of slideshow attached to article
Daydé, Emmanuel. "Philip Guston: Affreux, Sale et Géant." Art Absolument (Paris), July 2017, pp. 58–61, illus. in color on front cover installed in show
Benhamou-Huet, Judith. "Philip Guston: His Daughter and the Curator of His Amazing Show in Venice Speak about Abstraction, Figuration, Poets and Flesh." Judith Benhamou-Huet Reports, July 13, 2017. Online, illus. in color
Ebony, David. "Viva Art and Artists! The 2017 Venice Biennale Calls for Celebration, But is This a Time to Party?" Yale University Press. Blog. July 20, 2017, illus. in color
Gamberetta Rossa. "Philip Guston and the Poets Alle Gallerie Dell'Accademia di Venezia." Blog. July 20, 2017. Online, illus. in color
Fanti, Andrea. "Philip Guston, il sesto poeta." Corriere della Sera (Milan), July 30, 2017, illus.
Annaro, Daniela. "Philip Guston ritorna a Venezia." Il Dialogo di Monza (Monza), August 5, 2017. Online, illus. in color
Pietroni, Barbara. "Le ispirazioni poetiche di Philip Guston: A Venezia una mostra sul grande artista americano." Amica (Milan), August 29, 2017. Online, illus. in color
Contessanally. "Venice: Le Galleries dell'Accademia—The Painter Can't Sleep—Symposium." Blog. September 1, 2017, illus. in color
Lorenzetti, Anna. "Philip Guston e la sua vita spericolata: Fece del suo amore per i fumetti un'arte." Sentire (Rovereto), October 1, 2017. Online, illus. in color
Gartenfeld, Alex, Gean Moreno, and Stephanie Seidel, eds. The Everywhere Studio. Exh. cat. Miami: Institute of Contemporary Art; Munich: DelMonico Books-Prestel, 2017, cat. no. 42, illus. in color p. 27
Philip Guston & The Poets. Exh. cat. Essay by Kosme de Barañano. Hauser & Wirth, 2017, illus. in color p. 10 and mentioned in text p. 14
Caliandro, Christian. "L'arte rotta (VII). Imprevisto e libertà secondo gli artisti." Artribune (Rome), February 24, 2020. Online, illus. in color as part of an installation photo
Braine, Theresa. "Artists slam decision to postpone Philip Guston art exhibit containing KKK images as commentary on racial injustice." New York Daily News, October 1, 2020. Online, illus. in color as part of an installation photo
Mayer, Musa. Philip Guston. London: Laurence King Publishing, 2020, illus. in color p. 84 and mentioned in text p. 88
Judah, Hettie. "Philip Guston: A Life Spent Painting, review: a larger-than-life portrait of the controversial artist." iNews, January 8, 2021. Online, illus. in color as part of an installation photo
Smith, Roberta. "After the Storm, Philip Guston for Real." The New York Times, September 9, 2021. Online, illus. in color and mentioned in text
Smith, Roberta. "After the Storm, Philip Guston for Real." The New York Times, September 10, 2021, p. C10, illus. in color and mentioned in text
Chui, Vivian. "Philip Guston's Most Controversial Decade of Work." Ocula, September 22, 2021. Online, illus. in color, illus. in color as part of an installation photo and mentioned in text
Schjeldahl, Peter. "At the Museums: Philip Guston." New Yorker, September 27, 2021, p. 10, illus. in color
Yau, John. "Philip Guston's Unblinking Eye." Hyperallergic, September 30, 2021. Online, mentioned in text, not illus.
Novick, Ilana. "Controversial Philip Guston Paintings at Hauser & Wirth." Art & Object (Chapel Hill, NC), October 4, 2021. Online, illus. in color and mentioned in text
Goodman, Jonathan. "Philip Guston, 1969-1979 at Hauser & Wirth, NYC (Video + Photo Story)," ArteFuse, October 17, 2021. Online, illus. in color and illus. in color as part of an installation photo
Schor, Mira. "Philip Guston." 4Columns, October 22, 2021. Online, illus. in color and mentioned in text
Goodman, Jonathan. "Philip Guston 1969-1979 at Hauser & Wirth: Apocalypse Now." Frontera, December 3, 2021. Online, illus. in color as part of a slideshow and mentioned in text
Pogrebin, Robin. "More Than 200 Philip Guston Works Are Headed to the Met." New York Times, December 14, 2022. Online, illus. in color and mentioned in text
La Voce di New York. "The Met Museum Receives Gift of 220 Philip Guston Works from His Daughter." December 14, 2022. Online, mentioned in text, not illus.
Greenberger, Alex. "Metropolitan Museum to Receive 220-Work Philip Guston Gift from the Artist's Daughter." ARTnews, December 14, 2022. Online, illus. in color
Artlyst. "Philip Guston Family Collection Gifted to Met Museum." December 15, 2022. Online, mentioned in text, not illus.
Chow, Vivienne. "The Met Now Boasts the World's Largest Collection of Philip Guston's Work, Thanks to a 220-Piece Gift by the Artist's Daughter." artnet News, December 15, 2022. Online, illus. in color
Pogrebin, Robin. "Met to Receive Trove Of Philip Guston's Art." New York Times, December 15, 2022, pp. C1, C6, illus. in color and mentioned in text p. C6
Samudzi, Zoé. "Museums Can, and Do, Talk About Race. Just Not Whiteness." artnet News, December 27, 2022. Online, illus. in color
Smith, Roberta. "The Philip Guston Hoard: A Boon or Overkill?" New York Times, January 23, 2023. Online, illus. in color
Smith, Roberta. "A Gift The Met Might Not Need." New York Times, January 24, 2023, pp. C1, C5, detail illus. in color in index p. A1
Naves, Mario. "The Art World Recovers From Its Guston Derangement Syndrome." New York Sun, May 29, 2023. Online, illus. in color
Art Daily. "Now on view: Focused installation of Philip Guston's late works." May 31, 2023. Online, mentioned in text, not illus.
Fund for The Met Newsletter. "Musa Guston Mayer, Daughter of Philip Guston, Promises 220 of Her Father's Works and $10 Million to The Met." Summer 2023, pp. 1-2, illus. in color p. 2
Petrie, Melissa. "Does a Painting Have to be 'Pretty' to be Beautiful?" Thinking Man, August 18, 2023. Online, illus. in color and mentioned in text
Guadagnino, Kate. "15 New York Gallery Shows That Altered the Course of Contemporary Art." New York Times Style Magazine, September 25, 2023. Online, illus. in color
Coolidge, Clark, ed. Philip Guston: Que peindre sinon l'énigme. Translated by Éric Suchère. Strasbourg: L'Atelier Contemporain, 2023, illus. in color no. 124 (unpaginated) and mentioned in text p. 40
Claudia Castellucci: Sahara Il deserto come condizione. Cesena: Socìetas Raffaello Sanzio, 2025, illus. in color p. 5
XVI Bienal de Sao Paulo. Exh. cat. São Paulo: Pavilhão Engenheiro Armando Arruda Pereira, 1981, cat. no. 5, illus. in b&w p. 211
McGivern, Hannah. "Philip Guston Gets First Venice Museum Show: Accademia Exhibition Will Open for This Year's Venice Biennale, More Than 50 Years after the Artist Represented the US." Art Newspaper (London), January 31, 2017, section News. Online, illus. in color
ArteMagazine (Rome). "Alle Gallerie dell'Accademia la prima mostra veneziana dedicata a Philip Guston." February 1, 2017. Online, illus. in color
Nazif, Perwana. "Gallerie dell'Accademia to Host Philip Guston's First Museum Show in Venice," artnet News, February 1, 2017. Online, illus. in color
Sky Arte. "Philip Guston in arrivo a Venezia." February 1, 2017. Online, detail illus. in color
ArsNow Magazine (Padua). "Philip Guston and the Poets." February 2, 2017. Online, detail illus. in color
ARTE.it. "Philip Guston and the Poets." May 2017. Online, illus. in color
Amé, Francesca. "Le personali di Boetti, Pistoletto, Hockney, Tobey e Fabre, le collettive a tema, i progetti site-specific: un percorso attraverso tutti gli appuntamenti da non mancare." Arte (Rome), May 2017, illus. in color
Ferraioli, Mariecristina. "Biennale di Venezia: 10 mostre da vedere." Icon Design, May 2017. Online, detail illus. in color
Barina, Antonella. "Cosa Vi Cucinerò per la Biennale." Il Venerdì di Repubblica (Rome), May 5, 2017, illus. in color
Giacomelli, Marco Enrico. "Philip Guston, un grande artista a Venezia. Intervista con Paola Marini." Artribune (Rome), May 7, 2017, illus. in color as part of slideshow attached to article
Lucarelli, Niccolo. "Dal Rinascimento a Bukowski. Philip Guston pittore-poeta a Venezia." ArtsLife (Milan), May 11, 2017. Online, illus. in color
"Philip Guston and the Poets at Gallerie dell'Accademia di Venezia, May 10–September 3, 2017." Arts Summary. Blog. May 13, 2017. Online, illus. in color
Vallora, Marco. "Tra i poeti di Guston." La Stampa, TuttoLibri, May 20, 2017, p. 11, illus. in color
Hesse, Ewa. "Zwei Amis in Venedig." Der Bund (Bern), May 24, 2017. Online, illus. in color
Hesse, Ewa. "Zwei Amis in Venedig." Tages-Anzeiger (Zurich), May 24, 2017. Online, illus. in color
Art It. "Philip Guston and the Poets @ Gallerie dell'Accademia di Venezia." May 25, 2017. Online, illus. in color
Il Manifesto (Rome). "Guston, l'uomo ipnagogico." May 27, 2017. Online, illus. in color
Racca, Davide. "L'uomo ipnagogico raccontato dalla figlia." Alias Domenica (Mexico City), May 28, 2017, illus. in color
Silva, Sofia. "Le tre mostre de mese: Madrid, Venezia, New York." IL (Madrid), June 2017, illus. in color
Forlani, Maria Paola. "Philip Guston and the Poets: Le Gallerie dell'Accademia di Venezia presentano il lavoro del grande artista americano." estense.com, June 14, 2017. Online, illus. in color
Papi, Giancarlo. "Le licenze poetiche di Guston." Avvenire (Milan), June 16, 2017, p. 14, illus. and mentioned in text
De Santis, Silvia. "10 cose da non perdere del Fuori Biennale di Venezia (secondo Luca Massimo Barbero)." Huffington Post, June 26, 2017, International edition. Online, illus. in color as part of slideshow attached to article
Daydé, Emmanuel. "Philip Guston: Affreux, Sale et Géant." Art Absolument (Paris), July 2017, pp. 58–61, illus. in color on front cover installed in show
Benhamou-Huet, Judith. "Philip Guston: His Daughter and the Curator of His Amazing Show in Venice Speak about Abstraction, Figuration, Poets and Flesh." Judith Benhamou-Huet Reports, July 13, 2017. Online, illus. in color
Ebony, David. "Viva Art and Artists! The 2017 Venice Biennale Calls for Celebration, But is This a Time to Party?" Yale University Press. Blog. July 20, 2017, illus. in color
Fanti, Andrea. "Philip Guston, il sesto poeta." Corriere della Sera (Milan), July 30, 2017, illus.
Annaro, Daniela. "Philip Guston ritorna a Venezia." Il Dialogo di Monza (Monza), August 5, 2017. Online, illus. in color
Pietroni, Barbara. "Le ispirazioni poetiche di Philip Guston: A Venezia una mostra sul grande artista americano." Amica (Milan), August 29, 2017. Online, illus. in color
Contessanally. "Venice: Le Galleries dell'Accademia—The Painter Can't Sleep—Symposium." Blog. September 1, 2017, illus. in color
Lorenzetti, Anna. "Philip Guston e la sua vita spericolata: Fece del suo amore per i fumetti un'arte." Sentire (Rovereto), October 1, 2017. Online, illus. in color
Gartenfeld, Alex, Gean Moreno, and Stephanie Seidel, eds. The Everywhere Studio. Exh. cat. Miami: Institute of Contemporary Art; Munich: DelMonico Books-Prestel, 2017, cat. no. 42, illus. in color p. 27
Philip Guston & The Poets. Exh. cat. Essay by Kosme de Barañano. Hauser & Wirth, 2017, illus. in color p. 10 and mentioned in text p. 14
Caliandro, Christian. "L'arte rotta (VII). Imprevisto e libertà secondo gli artisti." Artribune (Rome), February 24, 2020. Online, illus. in color as part of an installation photo
Braine, Theresa. "Artists slam decision to postpone Philip Guston art exhibit containing KKK images as commentary on racial injustice." New York Daily News, October 1, 2020. Online, illus. in color as part of an installation photo
Mayer, Musa. Philip Guston. London: Laurence King Publishing, 2020, illus. in color p. 84 and mentioned in text p. 88
Judah, Hettie. "Philip Guston: A Life Spent Painting, review: a larger-than-life portrait of the controversial artist." iNews, January 8, 2021. Online, illus. in color as part of an installation photo
Smith, Roberta. "After the Storm, Philip Guston for Real." The New York Times, September 9, 2021. Online, illus. in color and mentioned in text
Smith, Roberta. "After the Storm, Philip Guston for Real." The New York Times, September 10, 2021, p. C10, illus. in color and mentioned in text
Chui, Vivian. "Philip Guston's Most Controversial Decade of Work." Ocula, September 22, 2021. Online, illus. in color, illus. in color as part of an installation photo and mentioned in text
Schjeldahl, Peter. "At the Museums: Philip Guston." New Yorker, September 27, 2021, p. 10, illus. in color
Yau, John. "Philip Guston's Unblinking Eye." Hyperallergic, September 30, 2021. Online, mentioned in text, not illus.
Novick, Ilana. "Controversial Philip Guston Paintings at Hauser & Wirth." Art & Object (Chapel Hill, NC), October 4, 2021. Online, illus. in color and mentioned in text
Goodman, Jonathan. "Philip Guston, 1969-1979 at Hauser & Wirth, NYC (Video + Photo Story)," ArteFuse, October 17, 2021. Online, illus. in color and illus. in color as part of an installation photo
Schor, Mira. "Philip Guston." 4Columns, October 22, 2021. Online, illus. in color and mentioned in text
Goodman, Jonathan. "Philip Guston 1969-1979 at Hauser & Wirth: Apocalypse Now." Frontera, December 3, 2021. Online, illus. in color as part of a slideshow and mentioned in text
Pogrebin, Robin. "More Than 200 Philip Guston Works Are Headed to the Met." New York Times, December 14, 2022. Online, illus. in color and mentioned in text
La Voce di New York. "The Met Museum Receives Gift of 220 Philip Guston Works from His Daughter." December 14, 2022. Online, mentioned in text, not illus.
Greenberger, Alex. "Metropolitan Museum to Receive 220-Work Philip Guston Gift from the Artist's Daughter." ARTnews, December 14, 2022. Online, illus. in color
Artlyst. "Philip Guston Family Collection Gifted to Met Museum." December 15, 2022. Online, mentioned in text, not illus.
Chow, Vivienne. "The Met Now Boasts the World's Largest Collection of Philip Guston's Work, Thanks to a 220-Piece Gift by the Artist's Daughter." artnet News, December 15, 2022. Online, illus. in color
Pogrebin, Robin. "Met to Receive Trove Of Philip Guston's Art." New York Times, December 15, 2022, pp. C1, C6, illus. in color and mentioned in text p. C6
Samudzi, Zoé. "Museums Can, and Do, Talk About Race. Just Not Whiteness." artnet News, December 27, 2022. Online, illus. in color
Smith, Roberta. "The Philip Guston Hoard: A Boon or Overkill?" New York Times, January 23, 2023. Online, illus. in color
Smith, Roberta. "A Gift The Met Might Not Need." New York Times, January 24, 2023, pp. C1, C5, detail illus. in color in index p. A1
Naves, Mario. "The Art World Recovers From Its Guston Derangement Syndrome." New York Sun, May 29, 2023. Online, illus. in color
Art Daily. "Now on view: Focused installation of Philip Guston's late works." May 31, 2023. Online, mentioned in text, not illus.
Fund for The Met Newsletter. "Musa Guston Mayer, Daughter of Philip Guston, Promises 220 of Her Father's Works and $10 Million to The Met." Summer 2023, pp. 1-2, illus. in color p. 2
Petrie, Melissa. "Does a Painting Have to be 'Pretty' to be Beautiful?" Thinking Man, August 18, 2023. Online, illus. in color and mentioned in text
Guadagnino, Kate. "15 New York Gallery Shows That Altered the Course of Contemporary Art." New York Times Style Magazine, September 25, 2023. Online, illus. in color
Coolidge, Clark, ed. Philip Guston: Que peindre sinon l'énigme. Translated by Éric Suchère. Strasbourg: L'Atelier Contemporain, 2023, illus. in color no. 124 (unpaginated) and mentioned in text p. 40
Claudia Castellucci: Sahara Il deserto come condizione. Cesena: Socìetas Raffaello Sanzio, 2025, illus. in color p. 5
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Title
Pittore
Date
1973
Medium
Oil on canvas
Dimensions
72¾ × 80½ in. (184.8 × 204.5 cm)
Inscription
Signed front lower left: Philip Guston
Catalogue Number
P73.031
Provenance
Promised gift of Musa Guston Mayer to The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Exhibitions
Bibliography
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