Philip Guston
Catalogue Raisonné

Title
Pull
Date
1979
Medium
Oil on canvas
Dimensions
68 x 100 in.172.7 x 254.0 cm
Inscription
Signed front lower right: Philip Guston; inscribed on reverse: PHILIP GUSTON/ "PULL" 1979 [underlined]/ OIL - 68 X 100 [underlined]/ S.F. EXHIBITION
Catalogue No.
P79.009
Provenance
Private Collection, Chicago
Private Collection
Exhibitions
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA, "Philip Guston, Retrospective 1930 - 1979", May 15, 1980 - June 29, 1980
Asher/Faure, Los Angeles, CA, "Paintings by Philip Guston", May 22, 1982 - June 19, 1982
The Hoyt L. Sherman Gallery, University Gallery of Fine Art, The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH, "Painters' Painters: Milton Avery, Philip Guston, Giorgio Morandi", March 26, 1984 - April 15, 1984
National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, Australia, "Philip Guston: The Late Works", August 18, 1984 - September 16, 1984
The Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY, "High & Low: Modern Art and Popular Culture", October 07, 1990 - January 15, 1991
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
Asher/Faure, Los Angeles, CA, "Paintings by Philip Guston", May 22, 1982 - June 19, 1982
The Hoyt L. Sherman Gallery, University Gallery of Fine Art, The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH, "Painters' Painters: Milton Avery, Philip Guston, Giorgio Morandi", March 26, 1984 - April 15, 1984
National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, Australia, "Philip Guston: The Late Works", August 18, 1984 - September 16, 1984
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
The Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY, "High & Low: Modern Art and Popular Culture", October 07, 1990 - January 15, 1991
The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL, "High & Low: Modern Art and Popular Culture", February 23, 1991 - May 12, 1991
The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA, "High & Low: Modern Art and Popular Culture", June 23, 1991 - September 15, 1991
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. 93, illus. in color plate 82 p. 124
Cramer, Sue. "Guston's Heroic Calm in the Face of the Last Gasp of Modernism." The Age (Melbourne), September 5, 1984, p. 14, mentioned in text, not illus.
Maloon, Terence. "'Bad' Paintings the Board Chairman Would Never Hang in His Office." Sydney Morning Herald, November 12, 1984, p. 12, mentioned in text, not illus.
Philip Guston: The Late Works. Exh. cat. Melbourne: The National Gallery of Victoria, 1984, cat. no. 32, illus. in color p. 47 and in b&w p. 26
Painters' Painters: Milton Avery, Philip Guston, Giorgio Morandi. Exh. cat. Columbus: University Gallery of Fine Art, The Ohio State University, 1984, cat. no. 14, illus. in color p. 13
Rand, Archie. "The Victory of the Futile." Arts Magazine, November 1988, pp. 62-66, illus. in color p. 64
Varnedoe, Kirk, and Adam Gopnik. High & Low: Modern Art and Popular Culture. Exh. cat. New York: Harry N. Abrams, 1990, fig. 112 illus. in color and mentioned in text p. 225
Corbett, William. Philip Guston's Late Work: A Memoir. Boston: Zoland Books, 1994, mentioned in text pp. 91-92, not illus.
Picasso, Guston, Miro, de Kooning: In vollkommener Freiheit. Exh. cat. Bremen: Neues Museum Weserberg Bremen, 1996, mentioned in text p. 102, not illus.
Block, Fang. "Ed Ruscha's 'Burning Standard' Is Expected to Fetch Above $20 Million at Christie's." Penta, March 30, 2023. Online, mentioned in text, not illus.
Porterfield, Carlie. "Paintings by Ed Ruscha, Philip Guston and others from major Chicago collection headed to auction at Christie's." Art Newspaper, March 30, 2023. Online, mentioned in text, not illus.
Depth of Field: The Alan & Dorothy Press Collection. New York: Christie's. Auction cat. 2023, illus. in color pp. 50 and 61, detail illus in color frontispiece four and mentioned in text pp. 47, 50, 52-53 and 55
Philip Guston. Exh. cat. New York: George Braziller, 1980, cat. no. 93, illus. in color plate 82 p. 124
Cramer, Sue. "Guston's Heroic Calm in the Face of the Last Gasp of Modernism." The Age (Melbourne), September 5, 1984, p. 14, mentioned in text, not illus.
Maloon, Terence. "'Bad' Paintings the Board Chairman Would Never Hang in His Office." Sydney Morning Herald, November 12, 1984, p. 12, mentioned in text, not illus.
Philip Guston: The Late Works. Exh. cat. Melbourne: The National Gallery of Victoria, 1984, cat. no. 32, illus. in color p. 47 and in b&w p. 26
Painters' Painters: Milton Avery, Philip Guston, Giorgio Morandi. Exh. cat. Columbus: University Gallery of Fine Art, The Ohio State University, 1984, cat. no. 14, illus. in color p. 13
Rand, Archie. "The Victory of the Futile." Arts Magazine, November 1988, pp. 62-66, illus. in color p. 64
Varnedoe, Kirk, and Adam Gopnik. High & Low: Modern Art and Popular Culture. Exh. cat. New York: Harry N. Abrams, 1990, fig. 112 illus. in color and mentioned in text p. 225
Corbett, William. Philip Guston's Late Work: A Memoir. Boston: Zoland Books, 1994, mentioned in text pp. 91-92, not illus.
Picasso, Guston, Miro, de Kooning: In vollkommener Freiheit. Exh. cat. Bremen: Neues Museum Weserberg Bremen, 1996, mentioned in text p. 102, not illus.
Block, Fang. "Ed Ruscha's 'Burning Standard' Is Expected to Fetch Above $20 Million at Christie's." Penta, March 30, 2023. Online, mentioned in text, not illus.
Porterfield, Carlie. "Paintings by Ed Ruscha, Philip Guston and others from major Chicago collection headed to auction at Christie's." Art Newspaper, March 30, 2023. Online, mentioned in text, not illus.
Depth of Field: The Alan & Dorothy Press Collection. New York: Christie's. Auction cat. 2023, illus. in color pp. 50 and 61, detail illus in color frontispiece four and mentioned in text pp. 47, 50, 52-53 and 55
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Title
Pull
Date
1979
Medium
Oil on canvas
Dimensions
68 × 100 in. (172.7 × 254.0 cm)
Inscription
Signed front lower right: Philip Guston; inscribed on reverse: PHILIP GUSTON/ "PULL" 1979 [underlined]/ OIL - 68 X 100 [underlined]/ S.F. EXHIBITION
Catalogue Number
P79.009
Provenance
Private Collection, Chicago
Private Collection
Exhibitions
Bibliography
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