Signed front lower center: P.G.; inscribed on reverse: PHILIP GUSTON/"FLOOR" (underlined) 1976/OIL. 69 x 98 1/2/ N.F.S. (underlined) COLLECTION OF ARTIST (underlined)
Catalogue No.
P76.030
Provenance
Promised gift of Musa Guston Mayer to The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Exhibitions
David McKee Gallery, New York, NY, "Philip Guston: Paintings 1976", Part I: March 18-April 8, 1977, Part II; April 9 - April 30, 1977 San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA, "Philip Guston, Retrospective 1930 - 1979", May 15, 1980 - June 29, 1980 Whitechapel Gallery, London, England, "Philip Guston: Paintings 1969 - 1980", October 13, 1982 - December 12, 1982 National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, Australia, "Philip Guston: The Late Works", August 17, 1984 - September 16, 1984 The Museum of Art, Fort Lauderdale, FL, "An American Renaissance: Painting and Sculpture Since 1940", January 12, 1986 - March 30, 1986
Bibliography
Philip Guston: Paintings 1976. Exh. cat. New York: David McKee Gallery, 1977, cat. no. 4, illus. in b&w (unpaginated)
Toucatt, Ralph. "Metamorphosis: The Art of Philip Guston." The Threepenny Review, Fall 1980, p. 24, mentioned in text, not illus.
Philip Guston. Exh. cat. New York: George Braziller, 1980, cat. no. 67, illus. in color plate 57 p. 100
Nicholas Serota, ed. Philip Guston: Paintings 1969–1980. Exh. cat. London: Whitechapel Art Gallery, 1982, cat. no. 15, illus. in color p. 27 (unpaginated)
Philip Guston: The Late Works. Exh. cat. Melbourne: The National Gallery of Victoria, 1984, cat. no. 21, illus. in color p. 36 and illus. in b&w p. 23, listed as "Floor" in checklist but as "The Floor" with b&w illus.. Also mentioned in text p. 19 as "The Floor"
Ablow, Joseph. "Philip Guston: The Last Paintings." Bostonia Magazine April/May 1986: pp. 14–19, illus. in color p. 15, listed as "The Floor"
An American Renaissance: Painting and Sculpture Since 1940. Exh. cat. New York: Abbeville Press, 1986. texts, illus. in color plate 118 p. 226 and mentioned in text p. 216 erroneously as being from 1978
McGrath, Patrick. "Philip Guston: Head and Bottle, 1975." Artforum, February 1995, mentioned in text p. 63 as "The Floor," not illus.
Fineberg, Jonathan. Art Since 1940: Strategies of Being. New York: Harry N. Abrams, 1995, illus. in b&w fig. 12.49 p. 402 and mentioned in text p. 403
Picasso, Guston, Miro, de Kooning: In vollkommener Freiheit. Exh. cat. Bremen: Neues Museum Weserberg Bremen, 1996, illus. in b&w p. 83
Fineberg, Jonathan. Art Since 1940: Strategies of Being. 2nd ed. 1995. Reprint, New York: Harry N. Abrams, 2000, illus. in b&w fig. 12.51 and mentioned in text p. 412
Storr, Robert. Philip Guston: A Life Spent Painting. London: Laurence King Publishing, 2020, No. 205 illus. in color p. 193 and mentioned in text p. 190, listed as "The Floor"
Greenberger, Alex. "Metropolitan Museum to Receive 220-Work Philip Guston Gift from the Artist's Daughter." ARTnews, December 14, 2022. Online, illus. in color
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.
Smith, Roberta. "The Philip Guston Hoard: A Boon or Overkill?" New York Times, January 23, 2023. Online, illus. in color and mentioned in text
Smith, Roberta. "A Gift The Met Might Not Need." New York Times, January 24, 2023, pp. C1, C5, illus. in color and mentioned in text p. C5
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Signed front lower center: P.G.; inscribed on reverse: PHILIP GUSTON/"FLOOR" (underlined) 1976/OIL. 69 x 98 1/2/ N.F.S. (underlined) COLLECTION OF ARTIST (underlined)
Catalogue Number
P76.030
Provenance
Promised gift of Musa Guston Mayer to The Metropolitan Museum of Art
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