Philip Guston
Catalogue Raisonné

Title
Dark Room
Date
1978
Medium
Oil on canvas
Dimensions
68¼ x 80⅛ in.173.4 x 203.5 cm
Inscription
Signed front lower right: Philip Guston
Catalogue No.
P78.060
Provenance
Saint Louis Art Museum, Promised gift, Collection of Emily Rauh Pulitzer and Joseph Pulitzer Jr. 2022.185
Private Collection
Auction: Sotheby's, New York, Contemporary Art, Part I, May 2, 1988, Lot 40
Private Collection
Exhibitions
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
Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia, Madrid, Spain, "Philip Guston: Retrospectiva de Pintura", March 01, 1989 - May 08, 1989
Pulitzer Arts Foundation, St. Louis, MO, "Dreamscapes", February 11, 2011 - August 13, 2011
Pulitzer Arts Foundation, St. Louis, MO, "Blue Black", June 09, 2017 - October 07, 2017
Saint Louis Art Museum, St. Louis, MO, "Philip Guston", August 26, 2022 - April 16, 2023
Whitechapel Gallery, London, England, "Philip Guston: Paintings 1969 - 1980", October 13, 1982 - December 12, 1982
Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia, Madrid, Spain, "Philip Guston: Retrospectiva de Pintura", March 01, 1989 - May 08, 1989
Pulitzer Arts Foundation, St. Louis, MO, "Dreamscapes", February 11, 2011 - August 13, 2011
Pulitzer Arts Foundation, St. Louis, MO, "Blue Black", June 09, 2017 - October 07, 2017
Saint Louis Art Museum, St. Louis, MO, "Philip Guston", August 26, 2022 - April 16, 2023
Bibliography
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. 89, illus. in b&w plate 67 p. 109
Nicholas Serota, ed. Philip Guston: Paintings 1969–1980. Exh. cat. London: Whitechapel Art Gallery, 1982, cat. no. 34, illus. in b&w p. 68
Philip Guston: Retrospectiva de Pintura. Exh. cat. Essays by Mark Rosenthal, Robert Storr, Carrie Rickey, Francisco Calvo Serraller, and Dore Ashton. Madrid: Ministerio de Cultura, Dirección General de Bellas Artes y Archivos, Centro Nacional de Exposiciones, 1989, cat. no. 61, illus. in color p. 137
Oxlade, Roy. "Father Was Brilliant." Modern Painters, Summer 1991, pp. 101-102, mentioned in text p. 102, not illus.
Herndon-Consagra, Francesca and Sydney Jane Norton, eds. Dreamscapes. Exh. cat. St. Louis: Pulitzer Foundation for the Arts, 2011, illus. in color as part of an installation photo p. 22
Sargent, Antwaun. "The Many Shades of Glenn Ligon's Blue Black." Hyperallergic, July 24, 2017. Online, illus. in color as part of an installation photo
Blue Black. Exh. cat. St. Louis: Pulitzer Arts Foundation, 2017, illus. in color (unpaginated)
Freeman. Nate. "Glenn Ligon joined Hauser & Wirth." Artsy, April 5, 2019. Online, mentioned in text, not illus.
Storr, Robert. Philip Guston: A Life Spent Painting. London: Laurence King Publishing, 2020, No. 238 illus. in color p. 219 and mentioned in text p. 180
Bram Demunter: Burrowers, Climbers, Crawlers. Exh. cat. Antwerp-Rome: Tim Van Laere Books, 2023., illus. in color, unpaginated
Philip Guston. Exh. cat. New York: George Braziller, 1980, cat. no. 89, illus. in b&w plate 67 p. 109
Nicholas Serota, ed. Philip Guston: Paintings 1969–1980. Exh. cat. London: Whitechapel Art Gallery, 1982, cat. no. 34, illus. in b&w p. 68
Philip Guston: Retrospectiva de Pintura. Exh. cat. Essays by Mark Rosenthal, Robert Storr, Carrie Rickey, Francisco Calvo Serraller, and Dore Ashton. Madrid: Ministerio de Cultura, Dirección General de Bellas Artes y Archivos, Centro Nacional de Exposiciones, 1989, cat. no. 61, illus. in color p. 137
Oxlade, Roy. "Father Was Brilliant." Modern Painters, Summer 1991, pp. 101-102, mentioned in text p. 102, not illus.
Herndon-Consagra, Francesca and Sydney Jane Norton, eds. Dreamscapes. Exh. cat. St. Louis: Pulitzer Foundation for the Arts, 2011, illus. in color as part of an installation photo p. 22
Sargent, Antwaun. "The Many Shades of Glenn Ligon's Blue Black." Hyperallergic, July 24, 2017. Online, illus. in color as part of an installation photo
Blue Black. Exh. cat. St. Louis: Pulitzer Arts Foundation, 2017, illus. in color (unpaginated)
Freeman. Nate. "Glenn Ligon joined Hauser & Wirth." Artsy, April 5, 2019. Online, mentioned in text, not illus.
Storr, Robert. Philip Guston: A Life Spent Painting. London: Laurence King Publishing, 2020, No. 238 illus. in color p. 219 and mentioned in text p. 180
Bram Demunter: Burrowers, Climbers, Crawlers. Exh. cat. Antwerp-Rome: Tim Van Laere Books, 2023., illus. in color, unpaginated
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Title
Dark Room
Date
1978
Medium
Oil on canvas
Dimensions
68¼ × 80⅛ in. (173.4 × 203.5 cm)
Inscription
Signed front lower right: Philip Guston
Catalogue Number
P78.060
Provenance
Saint Louis Art Museum, Promised gift, Collection of Emily Rauh Pulitzer and Joseph Pulitzer Jr. 2022.185
Private Collection
Auction: Sotheby's, New York, Contemporary Art, Part I, May 2, 1988, Lot 40
Private Collection
Exhibitions
Bibliography
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