Philip Guston
Catalogue Raisonné
Title
Untitled
Date
1980
Medium
Acrylic and ink on illustration board
Dimensions
20 x 30 in.50.8 x 76.2 cm
Inscription
Unsigned, undated
Catalogue No.
P80.006
Provenance
Promised gift of Musa Guston Mayer to The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Exhibitions
The Phillips Collection, Washington, D.C., "Philip Guston: 1980 The Last Works", March 21, 1981 - May 24, 1981
Whitechapel Gallery, London, England, "Philip Guston: Paintings 1969 - 1980", October 13, 1982 - December 12, 1982
Hayden Gallery, Cambridge, MA, "Philip Guston: The Last Works Paintings and Drawings 1979 - 1980", October 13, 1984 - November 25, 1984
The Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY, "The Drawings of Philip Guston", September 08, 1988 - November 01, 1988
Sala Rekalde, Bilbao, Spain, "Philip Guston La Raiz Del Dibujo", May 11, 1993 - June 30, 1993
Musee de l'Abbaye St. Croix, Les Sables d'Olonne, France, "Philip Guston: Oeuvres sur papier 1975-1980", June 24, 1995 - September 30, 1995
Williams Center for the Arts , Easton, PA, "Philip Guston The Last Works", April 09, 1998 - May 06, 1998
Centro Andaluz de Arte Contemporaneo, Seville, Spain, "Los Excesos de la Mente", May 29, 2002 - September 22, 2002
Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, Fort Worth, TX, "Philip Guston Retrospective", March 30, 2003 - June 08, 2003
3W Gallery, The Wordsworth Trust, Grasmere, Cumbria, England, "Guston in Grasmere: the Poem-Pictures", June 03, 2007 - September 02, 2007
Katonah Museum of Art, Katonah, NY, "Here's The Thing: The Single Object Still Life", March 30, 2008 - June 29, 2008
Pinakothek der Moderne, Munich, Germany, "Philip Guston: Three views: The complete printed works, last acrylic works on paper, and drawings for poets", March 26, 2015 - June 28, 2015
Ashmolean Museum of Art and Archaeology, Oxford, England, "Philip Guston: Locating the Image", November 23, 2019 - March 08, 2020
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., "Philip Guston Now", March 02, 2023 - August 27, 2023
Musée national Picasso-Paris, Paris, France, "Philip Guston. L’ironie de l’histoire", October 14, 2025 - March 01, 2026
The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH, "Philip Guston: 1980 The Last Works", June 06, 1981 - September 13, 1981
Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh, PA, "Philip Guston: 1980 The Last Works", October 03, 1981 - January 03, 1982
David McKee Gallery, New York, NY, "Philip Guston: 1980 The Last Works", January 12, 1982 - February 12, 1982
Whitechapel Gallery, London, England, "Philip Guston: Paintings 1969 - 1980", October 13, 1982 - December 12, 1982
Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, Netherlands, "Philip Guston: Schilderijen 1969 - 1980", January 13, 1983 - February 27, 1983
Kunsthalle Basel, Basel, Switzerland, "Philip Guston: Paintings 1969 - 1980", May 08, 1983 - June 19, 1983
Hayden Gallery, Cambridge, MA, "Philip Guston: The Last Works Paintings and Drawings 1979 - 1980", October 13, 1984 - November 25, 1984
The Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY, "The Drawings of Philip Guston", September 08, 1988 - November 01, 1988
Museum Overholland, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, "Philip Guston" (The Drawings of Philip Guston), January 14, 1989 - March 12, 1989
Centre Cultural de la Fundació Caixa de Pensions, Barcelona, Spain, "Dibuixos: Philip Guston", March 30, 1989 - May 14, 1989
Museum of Modern Art Oxford, Oxford, England, "The Drawings of Philip Guston", May 28, 1989 - July 23, 1989
The Douglas Hyde Gallery, Dublin, Ireland, "The Drawings of Philip Guston", August 09, 1989 - September 16, 1989
Galleria Nazionale d'Arte Moderna e Contemporanea, Rome, Italy, "Philip Guston: Opere Su Carta 1933-1980", October 11, 1989 - November 26, 1989
Sala Rekalde, Bilbao, Spain, "Philip Guston La Raiz Del Dibujo", May 11, 1993 - June 30, 1993
Musee de l'Abbaye St. Croix, Les Sables d'Olonne, France, "Philip Guston: Oeuvres sur papier 1975-1980", June 24, 1995 - September 30, 1995
Williams Center for the Arts , Easton, PA, "Philip Guston The Last Works", April 09, 1998 - May 06, 1998
Centro Andaluz de Arte Contemporaneo, Seville, Spain, "Los Excesos de la Mente", May 29, 2002 - September 22, 2002
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
3W Gallery, The Wordsworth Trust, Grasmere, Cumbria, England, "Guston in Grasmere: the Poem-Pictures", June 03, 2007 - September 02, 2007
Katonah Museum of Art, Katonah, NY, "Here's The Thing: The Single Object Still Life", March 30, 2008 - June 29, 2008
Pinakothek der Moderne, Munich, Germany, "Philip Guston: Three views: The complete printed works, last acrylic works on paper, and drawings for poets", March 26, 2015 - June 28, 2015
Ashmolean Museum of Art and Archaeology, Oxford, England, "Philip Guston: Locating the Image", November 23, 2019 - March 08, 2020
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., "Philip Guston Now", March 02, 2023 - August 27, 2023
Musée national Picasso-Paris, Paris, France, "Philip Guston. L’ironie de l’histoire", October 14, 2025 - March 01, 2026
Bibliography
Philip Guston 1980/The Last Works. Exh. cat. Essay by Morton Feldman. Washington D.C.: The Phillips Collection, 1981, cat. no. 14, illus. in b&w p. 21
Nicholas Serota, ed. Philip Guston: Paintings 1969–1980. Exh. cat. London: Whitechapel Art Gallery, 1982, cat. no. 40.G., not illus.
Baker, Kenneth. "A Giant Emerges." San Francisco Chronicle, October 2, 1988, pp. 1, 16, 17, mentioned in text, not illus.
Dabrowski, Magdalena. The Drawings of Philip Guston. Exh. cat. New York: The Museum of Modern Art, 1988, cat. no. 147 illus. in color p. 165, listed as "Untitled" and mentioned in text p. 42-43
Heraldo de Aragon (Saragossa). "Guston expone en Barcelona." March 31, 1989, illus. as part of an installation photo
Volans, Kevin. "Philip Guston, Douglas Hyde Gallery Dublin, 9 August–16 September." Circa, no. 48 (1989): pp. 39–41, mentioned in text p. 40, not illus.
Philip Guston, Opere Su Carta 1933–1980. Exh. cat. Milan: Electa, 1989, cat. no. 118, illus. in color p. 122
Dabrowski, Magdalena. Dibuixos Philip Guston. Exh. cat. Barcelona: Fundacio Caixa de Pensions, 1989, cat. no. 147 illus. in color p. 185
Corbett, William. "Prologue: Marlborough Gallery October 1970." Agni 35 (1992), pp. 165–68, mentioned in text p. 168, not illus.
de Barañano, Kosme Maria. Philip Guston: La Raiz del Dibujo. Exh. cat. Bilbao: Sala Rekalde, 1993, cat. no. 115, illus. in color p. 185
Ablow, Joseph. "Ordered Terror: The Art of Philip Guston." Bostonia Magazine, Fall 1994, pp. 21–26, illus. in color p. 23
Corbett, William. Philip Guston's Late Work: A Memoir. Boston: Zoland Books, 1994, mentioned in text p. 9, not illus.
Ottinger, Didier. Philip Guston (1913–1980) Oeuvres Sur Papier 1975–1980. Exh. cat. Les Sables d'Olonne: Musée de l'Abbaye Sainte-Croix des Sables d'Olonne, France, 1995, illus. in color
Koppelman, Dorothy. "Philip Guston: The Man, His Life and His Work." Terrain Gallery Online, Aesthetic Realism Foundation, September 1997, illus. in color online
Philip Guston: The Last Works. Exh. cat. Easton: Lafayette College, 1998, fig. 9, illus. in b&w pg. 14
Philip Guston: One-Shot-Paintings/De Un Solo Aliento. Exh. cat. Essays by Kosme de Barañano, María Jesús Folch, Fernando Gomez Aguilera, and Manuel Padorno. Valencia: IVAM, 2001. In association with Ediciones Aldeasa, illus. in color p. 58
Centro Andaluz de Arts, Contemporaneo. Los excesos de la mente. Exh. cat. Sevilla: Empresa Publica de Gestion de Programas Culturales, 2002, illus. in color p. 105
Auping, Michael. Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, Philip Guston Retrospective. Exh. cat. Hardcover ed. London: Thames & Hudson, 2003, illus. in color Plate 136 (unpaginated but would be p. 233)
Auping, Michael. Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, Philip Guston Retrospective. Exh. cat. London: Thames & Hudson, 2003, illus. in color Plate 136, unpaginated
Bucklow, Christopher. What Is in the Dwat: The Universe of Guston's Final Decade. Grasmere, England: Wordsworth Trust, 2007, Plate 54, illus. in color p. 195 and mentioned in text pp. 106, 141-45, and 154
Guston in Grasmere: The Poem-Pictures. Exh. cat. Grasmere: Wordsworth Trust, 2007, detail illus. in color (unpaginated)
Miller, Peter Benson. "Rotten With Stories." Apollo (London), June 2013. Print, illus. in color fig. 5 p. 63
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 p. 42, not illus.
Philip Guston Acryl auf Papier Letzte Arbeiten. Exh. cat. Munich: Staatliche Graphische Sammlung München, 2015, illus. in color p. 61
Lang, Karen and Lena Fritsch. Philip Guston: Locating the Image. Exh. cat. Oxford: Ashmolean Museum, University of Oxford, 2019, Fig. 32, illus. in color p. 48 and mentioned in text p. 52
Thomas, Elly. Play and the Artist's Creative Process. New York: Routledge, 2019, illus. in b&w Fig. 5.22 p. 142 (unpaginated)
Cooper, Harry, Mark Godfrey, Alison de Lima Greene, and Kate Nesin. Philip Guston Now. Exh. cat. Washington D.C.: National Gallery of Art, 2020, illus. in color Plate 177 p. 173
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. 176 illus. in color p. 177
Philip Guston: L'Ironie de L'Histoire. Paris: Editions Gallimard, 2025, illus. no. 176 illus. in color p. 177
Nicholas Serota, ed. Philip Guston: Paintings 1969–1980. Exh. cat. London: Whitechapel Art Gallery, 1982, cat. no. 40.G., not illus.
Baker, Kenneth. "A Giant Emerges." San Francisco Chronicle, October 2, 1988, pp. 1, 16, 17, mentioned in text, not illus.
Dabrowski, Magdalena. The Drawings of Philip Guston. Exh. cat. New York: The Museum of Modern Art, 1988, cat. no. 147 illus. in color p. 165, listed as "Untitled" and mentioned in text p. 42-43
Heraldo de Aragon (Saragossa). "Guston expone en Barcelona." March 31, 1989, illus. as part of an installation photo
Volans, Kevin. "Philip Guston, Douglas Hyde Gallery Dublin, 9 August–16 September." Circa, no. 48 (1989): pp. 39–41, mentioned in text p. 40, not illus.
Philip Guston, Opere Su Carta 1933–1980. Exh. cat. Milan: Electa, 1989, cat. no. 118, illus. in color p. 122
Dabrowski, Magdalena. Dibuixos Philip Guston. Exh. cat. Barcelona: Fundacio Caixa de Pensions, 1989, cat. no. 147 illus. in color p. 185
Corbett, William. "Prologue: Marlborough Gallery October 1970." Agni 35 (1992), pp. 165–68, mentioned in text p. 168, not illus.
de Barañano, Kosme Maria. Philip Guston: La Raiz del Dibujo. Exh. cat. Bilbao: Sala Rekalde, 1993, cat. no. 115, illus. in color p. 185
Ablow, Joseph. "Ordered Terror: The Art of Philip Guston." Bostonia Magazine, Fall 1994, pp. 21–26, illus. in color p. 23
Corbett, William. Philip Guston's Late Work: A Memoir. Boston: Zoland Books, 1994, mentioned in text p. 9, not illus.
Ottinger, Didier. Philip Guston (1913–1980) Oeuvres Sur Papier 1975–1980. Exh. cat. Les Sables d'Olonne: Musée de l'Abbaye Sainte-Croix des Sables d'Olonne, France, 1995, illus. in color
Koppelman, Dorothy. "Philip Guston: The Man, His Life and His Work." Terrain Gallery Online, Aesthetic Realism Foundation, September 1997, illus. in color online
Philip Guston: The Last Works. Exh. cat. Easton: Lafayette College, 1998, fig. 9, illus. in b&w pg. 14
Philip Guston: One-Shot-Paintings/De Un Solo Aliento. Exh. cat. Essays by Kosme de Barañano, María Jesús Folch, Fernando Gomez Aguilera, and Manuel Padorno. Valencia: IVAM, 2001. In association with Ediciones Aldeasa, illus. in color p. 58
Centro Andaluz de Arts, Contemporaneo. Los excesos de la mente. Exh. cat. Sevilla: Empresa Publica de Gestion de Programas Culturales, 2002, illus. in color p. 105
Auping, Michael. Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, Philip Guston Retrospective. Exh. cat. Hardcover ed. London: Thames & Hudson, 2003, illus. in color Plate 136 (unpaginated but would be p. 233)
Auping, Michael. Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, Philip Guston Retrospective. Exh. cat. London: Thames & Hudson, 2003, illus. in color Plate 136, unpaginated
Bucklow, Christopher. What Is in the Dwat: The Universe of Guston's Final Decade. Grasmere, England: Wordsworth Trust, 2007, Plate 54, illus. in color p. 195 and mentioned in text pp. 106, 141-45, and 154
Guston in Grasmere: The Poem-Pictures. Exh. cat. Grasmere: Wordsworth Trust, 2007, detail illus. in color (unpaginated)
Miller, Peter Benson. "Rotten With Stories." Apollo (London), June 2013. Print, illus. in color fig. 5 p. 63
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 p. 42, not illus.
Philip Guston Acryl auf Papier Letzte Arbeiten. Exh. cat. Munich: Staatliche Graphische Sammlung München, 2015, illus. in color p. 61
Lang, Karen and Lena Fritsch. Philip Guston: Locating the Image. Exh. cat. Oxford: Ashmolean Museum, University of Oxford, 2019, Fig. 32, illus. in color p. 48 and mentioned in text p. 52
Thomas, Elly. Play and the Artist's Creative Process. New York: Routledge, 2019, illus. in b&w Fig. 5.22 p. 142 (unpaginated)
Cooper, Harry, Mark Godfrey, Alison de Lima Greene, and Kate Nesin. Philip Guston Now. Exh. cat. Washington D.C.: National Gallery of Art, 2020, illus. in color Plate 177 p. 173
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. 176 illus. in color p. 177
Philip Guston: L'Ironie de L'Histoire. Paris: Editions Gallimard, 2025, illus. no. 176 illus. in color p. 177
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Title
Untitled
Date
1980
Medium
Acrylic and ink on illustration board
Dimensions
20 × 30 in. (50.8 × 76.2 cm)
Inscription
Unsigned, undated
Catalogue Number
P80.006
Provenance
Promised gift of Musa Guston Mayer to The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Exhibitions
Bibliography
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