Philip Guston
Catalogue Raisonné
Title
Group in Sea
Date
1979
Medium
Oil on canvas
Dimensions
68 x 88½ in.172.7 x 224.8 cm
Inscription
Unsigned, undated; inscribed on reverse: PHILIP GUSTON/ "GROUP IN SEA" [underlined] '79/ 68 x 88 1/2/ OIL ON CANVAS
Catalogue No.
P79.005
Provenance
Private Collection
Private Collection New York
Exhibitions
National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, Australia, "Philip Guston: The Late Works", August 17, 1984 - September 16, 1984
Greenville County Museum of Art, Greenville, SC, "Philip Guston", February 11, 1986 - April 06, 1986
Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia, Madrid, Spain, "Philip Guston: Retrospectiva de Pintura", March 01, 1989 - May 08, 1989
Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, Fort Worth, TX, "Philip Guston Retrospective", March 30, 2003 - June 08, 2003
Gallerie dell'Accademia, Venice, Italy, "Philip Guston and the Poets", May 10, 2017 - September 03, 2017
Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art, Eugene, OR, "Shared Visions", October 25, 2023 - January 28, 2024
The Art Gallery of Western Australia, Perth, Australia, "Philip Guston: The Late Works", September 26, 1984 - October 28, 1984
Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia, "Philip Guston: The Late Works", November 09, 1984 - January 01, 1985
Greenville County Museum of Art, Greenville, SC, "Philip Guston", February 11, 1986 - April 06, 1986
North Carolina Museum of Art, Raleigh, NC, "Philip Guston", May 17, 1986 - July 27, 1986
Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia, Madrid, Spain, "Philip Guston: Retrospectiva de Pintura", March 01, 1989 - May 08, 1989
Palau de la Virreina, Barcelona, Spain, "Philip Guston: Retrospectiva de Pintura", May 25, 1989 - July 16, 1989
Saint Louis Art Museum, St. Louis, MO, "Philip Guston: 50 Years of Painting", September 09, 1989 - October 22, 1989
Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas, TX, "Philip Guston: 50 Years of Painting", November 19, 1989 - January 14, 1990
Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, Fort Worth, TX, "Philip Guston Retrospective", March 30, 2003 - June 08, 2003
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA, "Philip Guston Retrospective", June 28, 2003 - September 27, 2003
Royal Academy of Arts, London, England, "The Art of Philip Guston: 1913-1980", January 24, 2004 - April 12, 2004
Gallerie dell'Accademia, Venice, Italy, "Philip Guston and the Poets", May 10, 2017 - September 03, 2017
Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art, Eugene, OR, "Shared Visions", October 25, 2023 - January 28, 2024
Bibliography
Philip Guston: The Late Works. Exh. cat. Melbourne: The National Gallery of Victoria, 1984, cat. no. 33, illus. in color p. 48
Storr, Robert. Philip Guston. New York: Abbeville Modern Masters, 1986, illus. in color no. 71 p. 73
Philip Guston. Exh. cat. Greenville: Greenville County Museum of Art, 1986, illus. in color (no page #)
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. 67, illus. in color p. 143
Ashton, Dore. A Critical Study of Philip Guston. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1990, illus. in color plate XIII (unpaginated) and mentioned in text p. 188
Kovner, Abba. Scrolls of Testimony. Jerusalem: Bialik Institute, 1993, illus. in b&w p. 161
Picasso, Guston, Miro, de Kooning: In vollkommener Freiheit. Exh. cat. Bremen: Neues Museum Weserberg Bremen, 1996, mentioned in text p. 102, not illus.
DeLong, Lea Rosson. Shifting Visions O'Keeffe Guston Richter. Exh. cat. Des Moines: Des Moines Art Center, 1998, mentioned in text p. 49, not illus.
Auping, Michael. Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, Philip Guston Retrospective. Exh. cat. Hardcover ed. London: Thames & Hudson, 2003, illus. in color Plate 126 (unpaginated but would be p. 223)
Rainbird, Sean, ed.. Max Beckmann. Exh. cat. London: Tate Publishing, 2003, mentioned in text p. 41 as "Group at Sea", not illus.
Auping, Michael. Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, Philip Guston Retrospective. Exh. cat. London: Thames & Hudson, 2003, illus. in color Plate 126, unpaginated
Feld, Ross. Erinnerungen an Philip Guston Mit dem Briefwechsel zwischen Feld und Guston. Kippenheim-Schmieheim: Verlag Kurt Liebig, 2003, illus. in color p. 67
Feld, Ross. Guston in Time: Remembering Philip Guston. New York: Counterpoint, 2003, illus. in b&w (no page #) and mentioned in text p. 60
Lubbock, Tom. "Driven from abstraction." Independent (London), January 27, 2004, pp. 54-55, mentioned in text p. 55, not illus.
Philip Guston: Odd Man Out. BBC Four, January 28, 2004. Television, details illus. in color
Heller, Michael. "Philip Guston." Chicago Review 49, no. 3–4 (2004), pp. 402-405, mentioned in text p. 403, not illus.
Zaller, Robert. "The Abandoned Studio: Philip Guston's Gnostic Testament." Boulevard 20, no. 2-3 (2005): pp. 100–18, mentioned in text p. 114, not illus.
Posnock, Ross. Philip Roth's Rude Truth: The Art of Immaturity. Princeton: Princeton University, 2006, mentioned in text p. 244, not illus., listed as "Group at Sea" in index (but correctly in text)
Bucklow, Christopher. What Is in the Dwat: The Universe of Guston's Final Decade. Grasmere, England: Wordsworth Trust, 2007, Plate 47, illus. in color p. 192 and mentioned in text p. 80
Miller, Peter Benson. "Rotten With Stories." Apollo (London), June 2013. Print, mentioned in text
Miller, Peter Benson, ed. Go Figure! New Perspectives on Guston. New York: American Academy in Rome; New York Review of Books, 2014, mentioned in text as "Group at Sea" p. 80, not illus.
Philip Guston, "Group in Sea." RNA 21, no. 4 (2015). Cover illustration, illus. in color on cover
Zambon, Martina. "Guston: Alle Gallerie dell'Accademia omaggio al pittore statunitense, tra informale e influenze italiane." Corriere del Veneto, May 9, 2017, mentioned in text, not illus.
Wullschläger, Jackie. "Star-spangled biennale: Americans shine in Venice." Financial Times (London), May 12, 2017, section Visual Arts. Online, mentioned in text as "Sea Group," 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 as "Sea Group," not illus.
Cotter, Holland. "Venice Biennale: Whose Reflection Do You See?" The New York Times, May 22, 2017, section Art & Design. Online, illus. in color as part of an installation photo
Philip Guston & The Poets. Exh. cat. Essay by Kosme de Barañano. Hauser & Wirth, 2017, illus. in color p. 88
Thomas, Elly. Play and the Artist's Creative Process. New York: Routledge, 2019, mentioned in text p. 49, not illus.
Storr, Robert. Writings on Art: 1980-2005. London: HENI, 2020, mentioned in text as "Group at Sea" p. 510, not illus.
Storr, Robert. Philip Guston: A Life Spent Painting. London: Laurence King Publishing, 2020, mentioned in text p. 197, not illus.
Cooper, Harry, Mark Godfrey, Alison de Lima Greene, and Kate Nesin. Philip Guston Now. Exh. cat. Washington D.C.: National Gallery of Art, 2020, mentioned in text p. 200, not illus.
Dohoney, Ryan. Morton Feldman: Friendship and Mourning in the New York Avant-Garde. New York: Bloomsbury Academic, 2022, mentioned in text pp. 167 and 169, not illus.
Feld, Ross. Guston In Time: Remembering Philip Guston. New York: Counterpoint, 2003. Reprint, New York: New York Review of Books, 2022, illus. in color (no page #) and mentioned in text p. 56
Haidu, Rachel. Each One Another: The Self in Contemporary Art. Chicago: University of Chicago, 2023, mentioned in text p. 51, not illus.
Storr, Robert. Philip Guston. New York: Abbeville Modern Masters, 1986, illus. in color no. 71 p. 73
Philip Guston. Exh. cat. Greenville: Greenville County Museum of Art, 1986, illus. in color (no page #)
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. 67, illus. in color p. 143
Ashton, Dore. A Critical Study of Philip Guston. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1990, illus. in color plate XIII (unpaginated) and mentioned in text p. 188
Kovner, Abba. Scrolls of Testimony. Jerusalem: Bialik Institute, 1993, illus. in b&w p. 161
Picasso, Guston, Miro, de Kooning: In vollkommener Freiheit. Exh. cat. Bremen: Neues Museum Weserberg Bremen, 1996, mentioned in text p. 102, not illus.
DeLong, Lea Rosson. Shifting Visions O'Keeffe Guston Richter. Exh. cat. Des Moines: Des Moines Art Center, 1998, mentioned in text p. 49, not illus.
Auping, Michael. Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, Philip Guston Retrospective. Exh. cat. Hardcover ed. London: Thames & Hudson, 2003, illus. in color Plate 126 (unpaginated but would be p. 223)
Rainbird, Sean, ed.. Max Beckmann. Exh. cat. London: Tate Publishing, 2003, mentioned in text p. 41 as "Group at Sea", not illus.
Auping, Michael. Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, Philip Guston Retrospective. Exh. cat. London: Thames & Hudson, 2003, illus. in color Plate 126, unpaginated
Feld, Ross. Erinnerungen an Philip Guston Mit dem Briefwechsel zwischen Feld und Guston. Kippenheim-Schmieheim: Verlag Kurt Liebig, 2003, illus. in color p. 67
Feld, Ross. Guston in Time: Remembering Philip Guston. New York: Counterpoint, 2003, illus. in b&w (no page #) and mentioned in text p. 60
Lubbock, Tom. "Driven from abstraction." Independent (London), January 27, 2004, pp. 54-55, mentioned in text p. 55, not illus.
Philip Guston: Odd Man Out. BBC Four, January 28, 2004. Television, details illus. in color
Heller, Michael. "Philip Guston." Chicago Review 49, no. 3–4 (2004), pp. 402-405, mentioned in text p. 403, not illus.
Zaller, Robert. "The Abandoned Studio: Philip Guston's Gnostic Testament." Boulevard 20, no. 2-3 (2005): pp. 100–18, mentioned in text p. 114, not illus.
Posnock, Ross. Philip Roth's Rude Truth: The Art of Immaturity. Princeton: Princeton University, 2006, mentioned in text p. 244, not illus., listed as "Group at Sea" in index (but correctly in text)
Bucklow, Christopher. What Is in the Dwat: The Universe of Guston's Final Decade. Grasmere, England: Wordsworth Trust, 2007, Plate 47, illus. in color p. 192 and mentioned in text p. 80
Miller, Peter Benson. "Rotten With Stories." Apollo (London), June 2013. Print, mentioned in text
Miller, Peter Benson, ed. Go Figure! New Perspectives on Guston. New York: American Academy in Rome; New York Review of Books, 2014, mentioned in text as "Group at Sea" p. 80, not illus.
Philip Guston, "Group in Sea." RNA 21, no. 4 (2015). Cover illustration, illus. in color on cover
Zambon, Martina. "Guston: Alle Gallerie dell'Accademia omaggio al pittore statunitense, tra informale e influenze italiane." Corriere del Veneto, May 9, 2017, mentioned in text, not illus.
Wullschläger, Jackie. "Star-spangled biennale: Americans shine in Venice." Financial Times (London), May 12, 2017, section Visual Arts. Online, mentioned in text as "Sea Group," 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 as "Sea Group," not illus.
Cotter, Holland. "Venice Biennale: Whose Reflection Do You See?" The New York Times, May 22, 2017, section Art & Design. Online, illus. in color as part of an installation photo
Philip Guston & The Poets. Exh. cat. Essay by Kosme de Barañano. Hauser & Wirth, 2017, illus. in color p. 88
Thomas, Elly. Play and the Artist's Creative Process. New York: Routledge, 2019, mentioned in text p. 49, not illus.
Storr, Robert. Writings on Art: 1980-2005. London: HENI, 2020, mentioned in text as "Group at Sea" p. 510, not illus.
Storr, Robert. Philip Guston: A Life Spent Painting. London: Laurence King Publishing, 2020, mentioned in text p. 197, not illus.
Cooper, Harry, Mark Godfrey, Alison de Lima Greene, and Kate Nesin. Philip Guston Now. Exh. cat. Washington D.C.: National Gallery of Art, 2020, mentioned in text p. 200, not illus.
Dohoney, Ryan. Morton Feldman: Friendship and Mourning in the New York Avant-Garde. New York: Bloomsbury Academic, 2022, mentioned in text pp. 167 and 169, not illus.
Feld, Ross. Guston In Time: Remembering Philip Guston. New York: Counterpoint, 2003. Reprint, New York: New York Review of Books, 2022, illus. in color (no page #) and mentioned in text p. 56
Haidu, Rachel. Each One Another: The Self in Contemporary Art. Chicago: University of Chicago, 2023, mentioned in text p. 51, not illus.
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Title
Group in Sea
Date
1979
Medium
Oil on canvas
Dimensions
68 × 88½ in. (172.7 × 224.8 cm)
Inscription
Unsigned, undated; inscribed on reverse: PHILIP GUSTON/ "GROUP IN SEA" [underlined] '79/ 68 x 88 1/2/ OIL ON CANVAS
Catalogue Number
P79.005
Provenance
Private Collection
Private Collection New York
Exhibitions
Bibliography
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