Philip Guston
Catalogue Raisonné
Title
Large Brush
Date
1979
Medium
Oil on canvas
Dimensions
32 x 36 in.81.3 x 91.4 cm
Inscription
Signed front lower right: Philip Guston
Catalogue No.
P79.055
Provenance
Private Collection
Private Collection
Exhibitions
Hayden Gallery, Cambridge, MA, "Philip Guston: The Last Works Paintings and Drawings 1979 - 1980", October 13, 1984 - November 25, 1984
Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, Fort Worth, TX, "Philip Guston Retrospective", March 30, 2003 - June 08, 2003
Musée national Picasso-Paris, Paris, France, "Philip Guston. L’ironie de l’histoire", October 14, 2025 - March 01, 2026
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
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY, "Philip Guston Retrospective", October 27, 2003 - January 04, 2004
Royal Academy of Arts, London, England, "The Art of Philip Guston: 1913-1980", January 24, 2004 - April 12, 2004
Musée national Picasso-Paris, Paris, France, "Philip Guston. L’ironie de l’histoire", October 14, 2025 - March 01, 2026
Bibliography
Taylor, Robert. "Guston's last works powerful, disturbing." Boston Globe, October 21, 1984, pp. B9-B10, mentioned in text p. B10, not illus.
Corbett, William. "Philip Guston in Retrospect." Brooklyn Rail, November 2003, p. 15, mentioned in text, not illus.
Auping, Michael. Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, Philip Guston Retrospective. Exh. cat. London: Thames & Hudson, 2003, illus. in color Plate 130, unpaginated
Auping, Michael. Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, Philip Guston Retrospective. Exh. cat. Hardcover ed. London: Thames & Hudson, 2003, illus. in color Plate 130 (unpaginated but would be p. 227)
Storr, Robert. Philip Guston: A Life Spent Painting. London: Laurence King Publishing, 2020, No. 251 illus. in color p. 227
Lequeux, Emmanuelle, Daphné Bétard, Pierre Morio, Inès Boittiaux and Maïlys Celeux-Lanval. "Minimal, Richter, Kandinsky…. Ces expos d'art moderne et contemporain à ne pas manquer pendant Art Basel Paris." Beaux Arts, October 16, 2025. Online, illus. in color
Troncy, Éric. "Au musée Picasso-Paris, l'œuvre scandaleuse et controversée de Philip Guston." Numéro (Paris), October 17, 2025. Online, illus. in color
Vieville, Camille, "Le Monde Selon Philip Guston." Art Newspaper (Paris), November 2025. Print, illus. in color
Boudier, Laurent. "Les meilleures expositions à voir à Paris en novembre 2025: Les peintures cartoonesques de Philip Guston au musée Picasso, les sculptures de Robert Rauschenberg à la galerie Ropac, les joyaux de l'Art déco à la Cité de l'architecture… Notre sélection d'expos à ne pas rater, mise à jour chaque semaine." Télérama (Paris), November 7, 2025. Online, illus. in color
Davis, Sylvia Edwards. "Spotlight on America at the Picasso-Paris Museum." France Today, December 19, 2025. Online, illus. in color as part of an installation photo
Philip Guston: The Irony of History. Paris: Editions Gallimard, 2025, illus. no. 150 illus. in color p. 140 and mentioned in text p. 120
Corbett, William. "Philip Guston in Retrospect." Brooklyn Rail, November 2003, p. 15, mentioned in text, not illus.
Auping, Michael. Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, Philip Guston Retrospective. Exh. cat. London: Thames & Hudson, 2003, illus. in color Plate 130, unpaginated
Auping, Michael. Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, Philip Guston Retrospective. Exh. cat. Hardcover ed. London: Thames & Hudson, 2003, illus. in color Plate 130 (unpaginated but would be p. 227)
Storr, Robert. Philip Guston: A Life Spent Painting. London: Laurence King Publishing, 2020, No. 251 illus. in color p. 227
Lequeux, Emmanuelle, Daphné Bétard, Pierre Morio, Inès Boittiaux and Maïlys Celeux-Lanval. "Minimal, Richter, Kandinsky…. Ces expos d'art moderne et contemporain à ne pas manquer pendant Art Basel Paris." Beaux Arts, October 16, 2025. Online, illus. in color
Troncy, Éric. "Au musée Picasso-Paris, l'œuvre scandaleuse et controversée de Philip Guston." Numéro (Paris), October 17, 2025. Online, illus. in color
Vieville, Camille, "Le Monde Selon Philip Guston." Art Newspaper (Paris), November 2025. Print, illus. in color
Boudier, Laurent. "Les meilleures expositions à voir à Paris en novembre 2025: Les peintures cartoonesques de Philip Guston au musée Picasso, les sculptures de Robert Rauschenberg à la galerie Ropac, les joyaux de l'Art déco à la Cité de l'architecture… Notre sélection d'expos à ne pas rater, mise à jour chaque semaine." Télérama (Paris), November 7, 2025. Online, illus. in color
Davis, Sylvia Edwards. "Spotlight on America at the Picasso-Paris Museum." France Today, December 19, 2025. Online, illus. in color as part of an installation photo
Philip Guston: The Irony of History. Paris: Editions Gallimard, 2025, illus. no. 150 illus. in color p. 140 and mentioned in text p. 120
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Title
Large Brush
Date
1979
Medium
Oil on canvas
Dimensions
32 × 36 in. (81.3 × 91.4 cm)
Inscription
Signed front lower right: Philip Guston
Catalogue Number
P79.055
Provenance
Private Collection
Private Collection
Exhibitions
Bibliography
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