Philip Guston
Catalogue Raisonné
Title
Untitled (Preliminary Study for Reconstruction and the Well-Being of the Family)
Date
c. 1940
Medium
Fresco
Dimensions
12⅝ x 67⅜ in.32.1 x 171.1 cm
Inscription
Unsigned, undated
Catalogue No.
P40.001
Provenance
Promised gift of Musa Guston Mayer to The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Exhibitions
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
Musée national Picasso-Paris, Paris, France, "Philip Guston. L’ironie de l’histoire", October 14, 2025 - March 01, 2026
Bibliography
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 10 pp. 22-23 and mentioned in text pp. 10 and 226
Dunbar, Max. "The Daily Struggle: Philip Guston and American Art in the 1930s." PhD diss. Washington University in St. Louis, 2024, illus. in color Fig. 4.18 p. 238
Philip Guston: The Irony of History. Paris: Editions Gallimard, 2025, illus. no. 33 illus. in color pp. 50-51
Dunbar, Max. "The Daily Struggle: Philip Guston and American Art in the 1930s." PhD diss. Washington University in St. Louis, 2024, illus. in color Fig. 4.18 p. 238
Philip Guston: The Irony of History. Paris: Editions Gallimard, 2025, illus. no. 33 illus. in color pp. 50-51
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Title
Untitled (Preliminary Study for Reconstruction and the Well-Being of the Family)
Date
c. 1940
Medium
Fresco
Dimensions
12⅝ × 67⅜ in. (32.1 × 171.1 cm)
Inscription
Unsigned, undated
Catalogue Number
P40.001
Provenance
Promised gift of Musa Guston Mayer to The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Exhibitions
Bibliography
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