Philip Guston
Catalogue Raisonné

Title
Lower Level
Date
1975
Medium
Oil on canvas
Dimensions
74 x 98½ in.188.0 x 250.2 cm
Inscription
Signed front lower left: Philip Guston; inscribed on reverse: PHILIP GUSTON/"LOWER LEVEL" [underlined] 1975/OIL - 74 x 98 1/2 [underlined]
Catalogue No.
P75.036
Provenance
Private Collection
Exhibitions
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA, "Philip Guston, Retrospective 1930 - 1979", May 15, 1980 - June 29, 1980
Marlborough Chelsea, New York, NY, "Alsoudani, Bacon, Guston, Rego", February 21, 2013 - March 30, 2013
Hauser & Wirth online, , "Philip Guston: What Endures", Summer 2020
Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., "Philip Guston, Retrospective 1930 - 1979", July 20, 1980 - September 09, 1980
Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, Chicago, IL, "Philip Guston, Retrospective 1930 - 1979", November 12, 1980 - January 11, 1981
Denver Art Museum, Denver, CO, "Philip Guston, Retrospective 1930 - 1979", February 25, 1981 - April 26, 1981
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY, "Philip Guston, Retrospective 1930 - 1979", June 30, 1981 - September 13, 1981
Marlborough Chelsea, New York, NY, "Alsoudani, Bacon, Guston, Rego", February 21, 2013 - March 30, 2013
Hauser & Wirth online, , "Philip Guston: What Endures", Summer 2020
Bibliography
Philip Guston. Exh. cat. New York: George Braziller, 1980, cat. no. 59, illus. in b&w plate 49 p. 91
King, Mary. "The Guston Retrospective: A 'Grim Mirror to Our Time.'" St. Louis Post-Dispatch, February 1, 1981, section Music, the Arts, p. 5G, mentioned in text, not illus.
Zaller, Robert. "Philip Guston and the Crisis of the Image." Critical Inquiry 14, no. 1 (1987): pp. 69–94, mentioned in text p. 88 and footnote 13 p. 88, not illus.
Bucklow, Christopher. What Is in the Dwat: The Universe of Guston's Final Decade. Grasmere, England: Wordsworth Trust, 2007, mentioned in text pp. 49 and 88, not illus.
Russeth, Andrew. "Asoudani, Bacon, Guston, Rego; Marlborough Chelsea." New York Observer, March 4, 2013, illus. in color p. B5
Ahmed Alsoudani, Francis Bacon, Philip Guston, Paula Rego. Exh. cat. New York: Marlborough Chelsea, 2013, illus. in color pg. 15
Selvin, Claire. "Figuration to Abstraction and Back Again: How Philip Guston Shaped 20th-Century Painting." ARTnews, July 22, 2020. Online, illus. in color
Reid, Hilary. "This Exhibit of Philip Guston's 1970s Art Might Help You Cope Today." Vulture, July 31, 2020. Online, illus. in color
Mayer, Musa. "Musa Mayer Reflects on Paintings by Father Philip Guston and the Lessons that Endure." Cultured, July 31, 2020. Online, illus. in color
ARTnews. "Critics Slam Decision to Postpone Philip Guston Show Until 2024, Robert Bechtle Has Died and More: Morning Links from September 25, 2020." September 25, 2020. Online, illus. in color
Storr, Robert. Philip Guston: A Life Spent Painting. London: Laurence King Publishing, 2020, illus. in color p. 329 as part of a photo with Guston and illus. in color p. 336 as part of an installation photo
Lai, Kaitlyn and Alyanna Raissa J. Payos. "What To See At Art Basel Hong Kong 2023." Vogue Hong Kong, March 20, 2023. Online, illus. in color and mentioned in text
Art Emperor (Taipei City). "2023年香港巴塞爾藝術展 Art Basel HK 亞洲觀點的漸進擴張與藝術型態轉向". March 22, 2023. Online, illus. in color and mentioned in text
King, Mary. "The Guston Retrospective: A 'Grim Mirror to Our Time.'" St. Louis Post-Dispatch, February 1, 1981, section Music, the Arts, p. 5G, mentioned in text, not illus.
Zaller, Robert. "Philip Guston and the Crisis of the Image." Critical Inquiry 14, no. 1 (1987): pp. 69–94, mentioned in text p. 88 and footnote 13 p. 88, not illus.
Bucklow, Christopher. What Is in the Dwat: The Universe of Guston's Final Decade. Grasmere, England: Wordsworth Trust, 2007, mentioned in text pp. 49 and 88, not illus.
Russeth, Andrew. "Asoudani, Bacon, Guston, Rego; Marlborough Chelsea." New York Observer, March 4, 2013, illus. in color p. B5
Ahmed Alsoudani, Francis Bacon, Philip Guston, Paula Rego. Exh. cat. New York: Marlborough Chelsea, 2013, illus. in color pg. 15
Selvin, Claire. "Figuration to Abstraction and Back Again: How Philip Guston Shaped 20th-Century Painting." ARTnews, July 22, 2020. Online, illus. in color
Reid, Hilary. "This Exhibit of Philip Guston's 1970s Art Might Help You Cope Today." Vulture, July 31, 2020. Online, illus. in color
Mayer, Musa. "Musa Mayer Reflects on Paintings by Father Philip Guston and the Lessons that Endure." Cultured, July 31, 2020. Online, illus. in color
ARTnews. "Critics Slam Decision to Postpone Philip Guston Show Until 2024, Robert Bechtle Has Died and More: Morning Links from September 25, 2020." September 25, 2020. Online, illus. in color
Storr, Robert. Philip Guston: A Life Spent Painting. London: Laurence King Publishing, 2020, illus. in color p. 329 as part of a photo with Guston and illus. in color p. 336 as part of an installation photo
Lai, Kaitlyn and Alyanna Raissa J. Payos. "What To See At Art Basel Hong Kong 2023." Vogue Hong Kong, March 20, 2023. Online, illus. in color and mentioned in text
Art Emperor (Taipei City). "2023年香港巴塞爾藝術展 Art Basel HK 亞洲觀點的漸進擴張與藝術型態轉向". March 22, 2023. Online, illus. in color and mentioned in text
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Title
Lower Level
Date
1975
Medium
Oil on canvas
Dimensions
74 × 98½ in. (188.0 × 250.2 cm)
Inscription
Signed front lower left: Philip Guston; inscribed on reverse: PHILIP GUSTON/"LOWER LEVEL" [underlined] 1975/OIL - 74 x 98 1/2 [underlined]
Catalogue Number
P75.036
Provenance
Private Collection
Exhibitions
Bibliography
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