Signed front lower right: Philip Guston; inscribed on reverse: PHILIP GUSTON/ "THE MAGNET" [underlined]/ OIL - 67 1/2" x 80 1/4"
Catalogue No.
P75.041
Provenance
Private Collection, Germany
Auction: Sotheby's New York, Contemporary Art, Part I, November 13, 1991, Lot 69
Doris and Charles Saatchi, London
Exhibitions
David McKee Gallery*, New York, NY, "Philip Guston Paintings 1975", March 06, 1976 - April 10, 1976 Whitechapel Gallery, London, England, "Philip Guston: Paintings 1969 - 1980", October 13, 1982 - December 12, 1982 Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, Netherlands, "La Grande Parade: Highlights in Painting after 1940", December 15, 1984 - April 15, 1985 Royal Scottish Academy, Edinburgh, Scotland, "Art of Our Time", August 09, 1987 - August 31, 1987 Saatchi Gallery, London, England, "Leon Golub, Sigmar Polke, Philip Guston, Joel Shapiro: the Saatchi Collection", April 29, 1988 - September 01, 1988 Museum moderner Kunst Stiftung Ludwig Wien - MUMOK, Vienna, Austria, "Painting 2.0: Expression in the Information Age", June 04, 2016 - November 06, 2016 Gallerie dell'Accademia, Venice, Italy, "Philip Guston and the Poets", May 10, 2017 - September 03, 2017
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Philip Guston Paintings 1975. Exh. cat. New York: David McKee Gallery, 1976, cat. no. 7, not illus.
Packer, William. "Change and Philip Guston." Financial Times (London), October 26, 1982, illus. as part of an installation photo
Nicholas Serota, ed. Philip Guston: Paintings 1969–1980. Exh. cat. London: Whitechapel Art Gallery, 1982, cat. no. 10, illus. in color p. 24 (unpaginated) and illus. in b&w p. 55
Fuchs, Rudi, Hilton Kramer, and Peter Schjeldahl. Art of Our Time: The Saatchi Collection, vol. 3. London: Lund Humphries, 1984, illus. in color Plate 22 p. 56 (unpaginated) and mentioned in text pp. 13-14 (Peter Schjeldahl essay)
van Grevenstein, Alexander, Edy de Wilde, and Karel Schampers. La Grande Parade. Hoogtepunten van de schilderkunst na 1940/Highlights in Painting After 1940. Exh. cat. Amsterdam: Stedelijk Museum, 1984, cat. no. 99, illus. in color p. 149
Morgan, Stuart. "Bread and Circusus." Artforum, March 1985, pp. 82–86, illus. p. 84 and mentioned in text p. 85
Storr, Robert. Philip Guston. New York: Abbeville Modern Masters, 1986, illus. in color no. 78 p. 78 and mentioned in text p. 79
Art of Our Time: The Saatchi Collection. Exh. cat. Royal Scottish Academy, [1987], illus. in color p. 9
Schjeldahl, Peter. The Hydrogen Jukebox: Selected Writings of Peter Schjeldahl, 1978–1990. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1991, mentioned in text p. 229, not 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, illus. in color p. 85
Newton, Steven James. Painting, Psychoanalysis, and Spirituality. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2001, mentioned in text pp. 122 and 135, not illus.
Bucklow, Christopher. What Is in the Dwat: The Universe of Guston's Final Decade. Grasmere, England: Wordsworth Trust, 2007, Plate 22, illus. in color p. 179 and mentioned in text pp. 84, 128 and 133
Kaufmann, David. Telling Stories: Philip Guston's Later Works. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2010, mentioned in text pp. 60-61, not illus.
Jewish Exponent. "Art for Art's Sake: Speaking Volumes." May 25, 2011. Online, illus. in b&w online
Coolidge, Clark, ed. Philip Guston: Collected Writings, Lectures, and Conversations. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2011, illus. in b&w p. 285 and mentioned in text p. 286
Sylvester, David. Ein Gespräch mit Philip Guston. NichtSoKleineBibliothek 8. Bern: Piet Meyer Verlag, 2013, illus. in color p. 83, illus. no. 32
Pfeiffer, Ingrid, and Max Hollein, eds. Philip Guston Das Grosse Spatwerk/Late Works. Exh. cat. Cologne: Strzeleckibooks, 2013, illus. in color fig. 5 p. 130 ("Philip Guston Talking: A Lecture at the University of Minnesota")
Kondaratos, Yiannis. Philip Guston, the Painter in Eden. Writings, Lectures and Conversations. Athen: School of Fine Arts Editions, 2014, illus. in b&w fig. 11 p. 60
Painting 2.0: Expression in the Information Age. Exh. cat. Munich: Prestel, 2015, illus. in color p. 124
Wullschläger, Jackie. "Star-spangled biennale: Americans shine in Venice." Financial Times (London), May 12, 2017, section Visual Arts. Online, mentioned in text, not illus.
Wullschläger, Jackie. "Star-spangled biennale: Americans shine in Venice." Financial Times (London), May 13/14, 2017, section Arts, p. 12, mentioned in text, not illus.
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
Sirlin, Deanna. "Philip Guston: A Painter and His Muses." Art Section (Atlanta), June 2017. Online, illus. in color and mentioned in text
Philip Guston & The Poets. Exh. cat. Essay by Kosme de Barañano. Hauser & Wirth, 2017, illus. in color on front of dust jacket and p. 38 and mentioned in text p. 25
Mayer, Musa. Philip Guston. London: Laurence King Publishing, 2020, illus. in color p. 86 and mentioned in text p. 88
Storr, Robert. Philip Guston: A Life Spent Painting. London: Laurence King Publishing, 2020, No. 181 illus. in color p. 174, illus. in b&w p. 326 as part of a photo with Guston, illus. in color p. 329 as part of an installation photo and mentioned in text pp. 13, 220
Coolidge, Clark, ed. Philip Guston: Que peindre sinon l'énigme. Translated by Éric Suchère. Strasbourg: L'Atelier Contemporain, 2023, illus. in color no. 125 (unpaginated) and mentioned in text p. 556
Street, Benjamin James. "Painting Floods: History, Witness and Public Address in Philip Guston's Late Work." PhD diss. University of Easy Anglia, 2024, illus. in color no. 89 p. 245
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