Philip Guston
Catalogue Raisonné
Title
The Mirror
Date
1957
Medium
Oil on canvas
Dimensions
68 x 62 in.172.7 x 157.5 cm
Inscription
Signed front lower center: Philip Guston
Catalogue No.
P57.024
Provenance
Adriana & Robert Mnuchin
Auction: Christie's New York, Post-War and Contemporary Art (Evening Sale), November 8, 2005, Lot 39
Edward R. Broida
Joseph H. Hazen Collection, New York
Mrs. Bliss Parkinson
Exhibitions
Sidney Janis Gallery, New York, NY, "Philip Guston", February 24, 1958 - March 22, 1958
Kunsthalle Basel, Basel, Switzerland, "Die Neue Amerikanische Malerei", April 19, 1958 - May 26, 1958
Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, NY, "Philip Guston", May 03, 1962 - July 01, 1962
Rose Art Museum, Brandeis University, Waltham, MA, "Philip Guston, A Selective Retrospective Exhibition: 1945-1965", February 27, 1966 - March 27, 1966
The Israel Museum, Jerusalem, Jerusalem, Israel, "Paintings from the Collection of Joseph H. Hazen", May 1966 - circa September 1966
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., "American Art at Mid-Century I", October 28, 1973 - January 06, 1974
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA, "Philip Guston, Retrospective 1930 - 1979", May 15, 1980 - June 29, 1980
Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia, Madrid, Spain, "Philip Guston: Retrospectiva de Pintura", March 01, 1989 - May 08, 1989
McKee Gallery, New York, NY, "Philip Guston: Paintings from the Fifties", April 22, 1995 - June 03, 1995
Centro Cultural Arte Contemporaneo, Mexico City, Mexico, "Pintura estadounidense, expresionismo abstracto", October 10, 1996 - January 12, 1997
Orlando Museum of Art, Orlando, FL, "The Edward R. Broida Collection: A Selection of Works", March 12, 1998 - June 21, 1998
Kunstmuseum Bonn, Bonn, Germany, "Philip Guston: Gemälde 1947 - 1979", September 02, 1999 - November 01, 1999
Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, Fort Worth, TX, "Philip Guston Retrospective", March 30, 2003 - June 08, 2003
L&M Arts, New York, NY, "Philip Guston 1954-1958", January 15, 2009 - February 28, 2009
Mnuchin Gallery, New York, NY, "Guston/Morandi/Scully", September 08, 2022 - October 15, 2022
Kunsthalle Basel, Basel, Switzerland, "Die Neue Amerikanische Malerei", April 19, 1958 - May 26, 1958
Galleria Civica d'Arte Moderna, Milan, Italy, "The New American Painting", June 01, 1958 - June 29, 1958
Museo Nacional de Arte Contemporaneo, Madrid, Spain, "The New American Painting", July 16, 1958 - August 11, 1958
Hochshule für Bildende Künste, Berlin, Germany, "The New American Painting", September 01, 1958 - October 01, 1958
Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, Netherlands, "The New American Painting", October 17, 1958 - November 24, 1958
Palais des Beaux-Arts, Brussels, Belgium, "The New American Painting", December 05, 1958 - January 04, 1959
Musee National d'Art Moderne, Centre Pompidou, Paris, France, "The New American Painting", January 16, 1959 - February 15, 1959
Tate Gallery, London, England, "The New American Painting", February 24, 1959 - March 23, 1959
The Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY, "The New American Painting", May 26, 1959 - September 08, 1959
Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, NY, "Philip Guston", May 03, 1962 - July 01, 1962
Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, Netherlands, "Philip Guston", September 20, 1962 - October 15, 1962
Whitechapel Gallery, London, England, "Philip Guston", January 16, 1963 - February 17, 1963
Palais des Beaux-Arts, Brussels, Belgium, "Philip Guston", March 01, 1963 - March 24, 1963
Los Angeles County Museum, Los Angeles, CA, "Philip Guston", May 22, 1963 - June 30, 1963
Rose Art Museum, Brandeis University, Waltham, MA, "Philip Guston, A Selective Retrospective Exhibition: 1945-1965", February 27, 1966 - March 27, 1966
The Israel Museum, Jerusalem, Jerusalem, Israel, "Paintings from the Collection of Joseph H. Hazen", May 1966 - circa September 1966
Fogg Art Museum, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, "Paintings from the Collection of Joseph H. Hazen", October 18, 1966 - December 01, 1966
UCLA Art Galleries, Los Angeles, CA, "Paintings from the Collection of Joseph H. Hazen", January 04, 1967 - February 05, 1967
University Art Museum, University of California, Berkeley, Berkeley, CA, "Paintings from the Collection of Joseph H. Hazen", February 21, 1967 - March 26, 1967
The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Houston, TX, "Paintings from the Collection of Joseph H. Hazen", April 18, 1967 - May 28, 1967
Honolulu Academy of Arts, Honolulu, HI, "Paintings from the Collection of Joseph H. Hazen", June 16, 1967 - August 13, 1967
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., "American Art at Mid-Century I", October 28, 1973 - January 06, 1974
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA, "Philip Guston, Retrospective 1930 - 1979", May 15, 1980 - June 29, 1980
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
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
McKee Gallery, New York, NY, "Philip Guston: Paintings from the Fifties", April 22, 1995 - June 03, 1995
Centro Cultural Arte Contemporaneo, Mexico City, Mexico, "Pintura estadounidense, expresionismo abstracto", October 10, 1996 - January 12, 1997
Orlando Museum of Art, Orlando, FL, "The Edward R. Broida Collection: A Selection of Works", March 12, 1998 - June 21, 1998
Kunstmuseum Bonn, Bonn, Germany, "Philip Guston: Gemälde 1947 - 1979", September 02, 1999 - November 01, 1999
Kunstverein Stuttgart, Stuttgart, Germany, "Philip Guston: Gemälde 1947 - 1979", February 16, 2000 - April 24, 2000
National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada, "Philip Guston: Paintings of Four Decades", May 12, 2000 - July 30, 2000
Musee National d'Art Moderne, Centre Pompidou, Paris, France, "Philip Guston Peintures 1947 - 1979", September 13, 2000 - December 04, 2000
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
L&M Arts, New York, NY, "Philip Guston 1954-1958", January 15, 2009 - February 28, 2009
Mnuchin Gallery, New York, NY, "Guston/Morandi/Scully", September 08, 2022 - October 15, 2022
Bibliography
The New American Painting La Nuova Pittura Americana. Exh. cat. Milan: The International Council of The Museum of Modern Art, New York, 1958, cat. no. 30, not illus.
The New American Painting La Nouvelle Peinture Americaine. Exh. cat. Brussels: The International Council of The Museum of Modern Art, New York, 1958, cat. no. 30, not illus.
The New American Painting Die neue amerikanische Malerei. Exh. cat. Basel: The International Council of The Museum of Modern Art, New York, 1958, cat. no. 30, not illus.
Jong Amerika Schildert. Exh. cat. Amsterdam: The International Council of The Museum of Modern Art, New York, 1958, cat. no. 30, not illus.
The New American Painting La Nueva Pintura Americana. Exh. cat. Madrid: The International Council of The Museum of Modern Art, New York, 1958, cat. no. 30, not illus.
Restany, Pierre. "U.S. Go Home and Come Back Later," Cimaise (Paris), January–March 1959, mentioned in text p. 37, not illus., listed as "Mirror"
Jackson Pollock et La Nouvelle Peinture Americaine. Exh. cat. Paris: The International Council of The Museum of Modern Art, New York, 1959, cat. no. 29, not illus.
The New American Painting. Exh. cat. London: The International Council of The Museum of Modern Art, New York, 1959, cat. no. 29, not illus.
The New American Painting: As Shown in Eight European Countries 1958–1959. Exh. cat. New York: The Museum of Modern Art, 1959, cat. no. 29, not illus.
Kozloff, Max. "Art." Nation, May 19, 1962, pp. 453–55, mentioned in text, not illus.
Alloway, Lawrence. "Notes on Guston." Art Journal, Fall 1962, pp. 8–11, illus. in color on front cover
Berkson, Bill. "Art Chronicle." Kulchur, Autumn 1962, pp. 30–40, mentioned in text p. 37, not illus.
Philip Guston. Exh. cat. New York: The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, 1962, cat. no. 40, illus. in color p. 77, Collection Joseph H. Hazen, New York
Philip Guston. Exh. cat. Amsterdam: Stedelijk Museum, 1962, cat. no. 38, illus. in color on front cover
Feldman, Morton. "Philip Guston: The Last Painter." ARTnews Annual XXXI 1966, 1965, pp. 97–100, illus. in color p. 99
Philip Guston: A Selective Retrospective Exhibition: 1945–1965. Exh. brochure. Waltham: The Poses Institute of Fine Arts, Rose Art Museum, Brandeis University, 1966, cat. no. 14, illus. in color on inside
American Art at Mid-Century I. Exh. cat. Washington D.C.: National Gallery of Art, 1973, illus. in color (no page #)
Shere, Charles. "Looking beyond Guston's Paintings." Oakland Tribune, May 18, 1980, section Art, pp. 12–13, mentioned in text p. 12, not illus.
Kingsley, April. "Philip Guston's Endgame: From Realism to Abstraction and Back, Philip Guston Remains Unique in Twentieth-Century Art." Horizon: The Magazine of the Arts, June 1980, pp. 34–41, detail illus. in color p. 38, also mentioned in text pp. 39 and 41
Workman, Andree M. "Guston: A Born-Again Painter." West Art (Auburn, CA), June 13, 1980, pp. 1, 3, mentioned in text p. 3, not illus.
Lyon, Christopher. "Reflections on a Mirror." Chicago Reader, November 28, 1980, section 1, pp. 47–48, mentioned in text p. 47, not illus.
Philip Guston. Exh. cat. New York: George Braziller, 1980, cat. no. 29, illus. in color plate 26 p. 70
Purviance, Nina. "Philip Guston in the Fifties: The Power of Suggestion." Arts Magazine, September 1985, pp. 94–97, Fig. 3 illus. in b&w p. 95 and mentioned in text p. 97
Storr, Robert. Philip Guston. New York: Abbeville Modern Masters, 1986, illus. in color no. 34 p. 40 and mentioned in text p. 39
Zaller, Robert. "Philip Guston and the Crisis of the Image." Critical Inquiry 14, no. 1 (1987): pp. 69–94, mentioned in text pp. 79-80, not illus.
Casado, David. "Amplia retrspectiva de Philip Guston, en el Reina Sofia." El Punto de las Artes (Madrid), March 3–9, 1989, section Temas de la Semana, p. 3, illus.
Uberquoi, Marie-Claire. "La carrera singular d'un pintor inquiet." Diari de Barcelona, May 27, 1989, mentioned in text, not illus.
Brandenburg, John. "Seeing Guston's Art Requires a 'Leap' to Dallas." Oklahoman (Oklahoma City, OK), December 24, 1989, section Travel & Entertainment, p. 4, mentioned in text, not illus.
Conover, Kirsten A. "Philip Guston: an Artist Who Dared Draw Things You Can Recognize." Christian Science Monitor, December 27, 1989, section Art, mentioned in text, not illus.
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. 14, illus. in color p. 45
Smith, Roberta. "A Philip Guston Decade Colored by Red and Pink." New York Times, April 28, 1995, section C, p. 32, mentioned in text, not illus.
Wilkin, Karen. "At the Galleries." Partisan Review 62, no. 3 (1995): pp. 419–428, illus. in b&w p. 423 (unpaginated), illus. sideways
Philip Guston: Paintings from the Fifties. Exh. cat. New York: McKee Gallery, 1995, cat. no. 10, illus. in color (no page #)
Koppelman, Dorothy. "Philip Guston: The Man, His Life and His Work." Terrain Gallery Online, Aesthetic Realism Foundation, September 1997, illus. in color online
Mack, Gerhard. "Philip Guston Künstler." Kritisches Lexikon der Gegenwartskunst 36, no. 3 (1997): pp. 1–16, mentioned in text p. 6, not illus.
The Edward R. Broida Collection: A Selection of Works. Exh. cat. Orlando: Orlando Museum of Art, 1998, illus. in color p. 72
Herzog, Samuel. "Stiller Abscheid vom Absoluten, Ausstellung Philip Guston im Kunstmuseum Bonn." Neue Zürcher Zeitung (Zurich), October 15, 1999, mentioned in text as "Mirror," not illus.
Anfam, David. "Bonn, Philip Guston." Burlington Magazine, December 1999, pp. 767-78, mentioned in text p. 767, not illus.
Schreier, Christoph, Michael Auping, and Martin Hentschel. Philip Guston: Gemalde 1947–1979. Exh. cat. Ostfildern: Hatje Cantz Verlag, 1999, unnumbered catalog, illus. in color p. 77
Philip Guston Tableaux / Paintings 1947 - 1979. Exh. cat. Ostfildern: Hatje Cantz Publishers, 2000, illus. in color p. 77 and mentioned in text pp. 18, 35
Nation. Danto, Arthur C. "Dick (Nixon) Heads." October 1, 2001, mentioned in text p. 36, not illus.
Krauss, Nicole. "The First Painter after the Last." Modern Painters, Winter 2003, mentioned in text p. 88, not illus.
Auping, Michael. Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, Philip Guston Retrospective. Exh. cat. London: Thames & Hudson, 2003, illus. in color Plate 43 (unpaginated but would be p. 142)
Slifkin, Robert S. "Dark Unfathomed Retrospect." Art Journal 62, no. 4 (2003): pp. 105–08, mentioned in text p. 106, 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 43 (unpaginated but would be p. 142)
Lambirth, Andrew. "Apocalyptic Vision." Spectator (London), January 24, 2004, p. 36, mentioned in text, 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. 104, not illus., listed as "Mirror"
Danto, Arthur Coleman. Unnatural Wonders: Essays from the Gap Between Art and Life. New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2005, mentioned in text p. 143, not illus.
MacAdam, Barbara. "Guston Low and High." Art & Auction, February 2006, pp. 112–14, illus. in color p. 112
Hohmeyer, Boris. "Die Entdeckung der Wirklichkeit." Art: Das Kunstmagazin March 2007, pp. 26–35, mentioned in text p. 34, not illus.
This Week in New York. "Riff's Rants & Raves: Art & Literature, Philip Guston: 1954–1958." February 4, 2009. Online, mentioned in text, not illus.
Proctor, R.A. "Go See: Philip Guston at L&M Arts, New York through February 28th, 2009." AO Art Observed, February 12, 2009. Online, illus. in color online and briefly mentioned in text
Yau, John. "Philip Guston 1954–1958 L&M Arts: January 15–February 28, 2009." Brooklyn Rail, March 2009. Online, illus. in color as part of an installation photo
Helander, Bruce. "Guston's Gusto." Art of the Times, Spring 2009, illus. in color
Berkson, Bill. Sudden Address: Selected Lectures 1981–2006. Austin: Cuneiform, 2007. Reprint, Austin: Cuneiform, 2010, mentioned in text pp. 27-28, not illus.
Coolidge, Clark, ed. Philip Guston: Collected Writings, Lectures, and Conversations. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2011, mentioned in text p. 220, not illus.
Sutherland, Giles. "Philip Guston: 1913–1980—Late Paintings." Arts Journal, September 1, 2012. Online, mentioned in text, not illus.
Miller, Peter Benson. "Rotten With Stories." Apollo (London), June 2013. Print, illus. in color fig. 3, p. 62 and mentioned in text
Sylvester, David. Ein Gespräch mit Philip Guston. NichtSoKleineBibliothek 8. Bern: Piet Meyer Verlag, 2013, illus. in color p. 10, illus. no. 2
Miller, Peter Benson, ed. Go Figure! New Perspectives on Guston. New York: American Academy in Rome; New York Review of Books, 2014, illus. in color Fig. 47 p. 124. Also mentioned in text pp. 20 and 123
Storr, Robert. "Philip Guston: Hilarious and Horrifying." New York Review of Books, March 8, 2015. Online, illus. in color and mentioned in text
Yau, John. "The Homages and Inventions of a Self-Taught Painter." Hyperallergic, June 25, 2017. Online, mentioned in text, not illus.
Thomas, Elly. Play and the Artist's Creative Process. New York: Routledge, 2019, mentioned in text p. 71, not illus.
Storr, Robert. Philip Guston: A Life Spent Painting. London: Laurence King Publishing, 2020, No. 55 illus. in color p. 71, illus. in b&w p. 303 as part of an installation photo and mentioned in text p. 75
McGlynn, Tom. "Guston/Morandi/Scully." Brooklyn Rail, October 2022, p. 85, mentioned in text, not illus.
McGlynn, Tom. "Guston/Morandi/Scully." Brooklyn Rail, October 2022. Online., mentioned in text, not illus.
Taylor, Brandon. Make It Modern: A History of Art in the 20th Century. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2022, illus. in color on frontispiece and in color fig. 15.14 p. 268
Guston Morandi Scully. Exh. cat. New York: Mnuchin Gallery, 2022, illus. in color p. 23 and mentioned in text pp. 14 and 16
Wilkin, Karen. "Philip Guston in Boston, Houston, and Washington." Hudson Review, Spring 2023. Online, mentioned in text, not illus.
Coolidge, Clark, ed. Philip Guston: Que peindre sinon l'énigme. Translated by Éric Suchère. Strasbourg: L'Atelier Contemporain, 2023, mentioned in text p. 463, not illus.
Georg Baselitz: The Last Decade. Exh. cat. Istanbul: Sabancı University Sakıp Sabancı Museum, 2024, illus. in color Fig 1 p. 20
Philip Guston: The Irony of History. Paris: Editions Gallimard, 2025, mentioned in text p. 37, not illus.
Georg Baselitz. Something Everywhere. Paintings 2014-2025. Exh. cat. Bilbao: Bilbao Fine Arts Museum, 2025.
Philip Guston: L'Ironie de L'Histoire. Paris: Editions Gallimard, 2025, mentioned in text p. 37, not illus.
The New American Painting La Nouvelle Peinture Americaine. Exh. cat. Brussels: The International Council of The Museum of Modern Art, New York, 1958, cat. no. 30, not illus.
The New American Painting Die neue amerikanische Malerei. Exh. cat. Basel: The International Council of The Museum of Modern Art, New York, 1958, cat. no. 30, not illus.
Jong Amerika Schildert. Exh. cat. Amsterdam: The International Council of The Museum of Modern Art, New York, 1958, cat. no. 30, not illus.
The New American Painting La Nueva Pintura Americana. Exh. cat. Madrid: The International Council of The Museum of Modern Art, New York, 1958, cat. no. 30, not illus.
Restany, Pierre. "U.S. Go Home and Come Back Later," Cimaise (Paris), January–March 1959, mentioned in text p. 37, not illus., listed as "Mirror"
Jackson Pollock et La Nouvelle Peinture Americaine. Exh. cat. Paris: The International Council of The Museum of Modern Art, New York, 1959, cat. no. 29, not illus.
The New American Painting. Exh. cat. London: The International Council of The Museum of Modern Art, New York, 1959, cat. no. 29, not illus.
The New American Painting: As Shown in Eight European Countries 1958–1959. Exh. cat. New York: The Museum of Modern Art, 1959, cat. no. 29, not illus.
Kozloff, Max. "Art." Nation, May 19, 1962, pp. 453–55, mentioned in text, not illus.
Alloway, Lawrence. "Notes on Guston." Art Journal, Fall 1962, pp. 8–11, illus. in color on front cover
Berkson, Bill. "Art Chronicle." Kulchur, Autumn 1962, pp. 30–40, mentioned in text p. 37, not illus.
Philip Guston. Exh. cat. New York: The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, 1962, cat. no. 40, illus. in color p. 77, Collection Joseph H. Hazen, New York
Philip Guston. Exh. cat. Amsterdam: Stedelijk Museum, 1962, cat. no. 38, illus. in color on front cover
Feldman, Morton. "Philip Guston: The Last Painter." ARTnews Annual XXXI 1966, 1965, pp. 97–100, illus. in color p. 99
Philip Guston: A Selective Retrospective Exhibition: 1945–1965. Exh. brochure. Waltham: The Poses Institute of Fine Arts, Rose Art Museum, Brandeis University, 1966, cat. no. 14, illus. in color on inside
American Art at Mid-Century I. Exh. cat. Washington D.C.: National Gallery of Art, 1973, illus. in color (no page #)
Shere, Charles. "Looking beyond Guston's Paintings." Oakland Tribune, May 18, 1980, section Art, pp. 12–13, mentioned in text p. 12, not illus.
Kingsley, April. "Philip Guston's Endgame: From Realism to Abstraction and Back, Philip Guston Remains Unique in Twentieth-Century Art." Horizon: The Magazine of the Arts, June 1980, pp. 34–41, detail illus. in color p. 38, also mentioned in text pp. 39 and 41
Workman, Andree M. "Guston: A Born-Again Painter." West Art (Auburn, CA), June 13, 1980, pp. 1, 3, mentioned in text p. 3, not illus.
Lyon, Christopher. "Reflections on a Mirror." Chicago Reader, November 28, 1980, section 1, pp. 47–48, mentioned in text p. 47, not illus.
Philip Guston. Exh. cat. New York: George Braziller, 1980, cat. no. 29, illus. in color plate 26 p. 70
Purviance, Nina. "Philip Guston in the Fifties: The Power of Suggestion." Arts Magazine, September 1985, pp. 94–97, Fig. 3 illus. in b&w p. 95 and mentioned in text p. 97
Storr, Robert. Philip Guston. New York: Abbeville Modern Masters, 1986, illus. in color no. 34 p. 40 and mentioned in text p. 39
Zaller, Robert. "Philip Guston and the Crisis of the Image." Critical Inquiry 14, no. 1 (1987): pp. 69–94, mentioned in text pp. 79-80, not illus.
Casado, David. "Amplia retrspectiva de Philip Guston, en el Reina Sofia." El Punto de las Artes (Madrid), March 3–9, 1989, section Temas de la Semana, p. 3, illus.
Uberquoi, Marie-Claire. "La carrera singular d'un pintor inquiet." Diari de Barcelona, May 27, 1989, mentioned in text, not illus.
Brandenburg, John. "Seeing Guston's Art Requires a 'Leap' to Dallas." Oklahoman (Oklahoma City, OK), December 24, 1989, section Travel & Entertainment, p. 4, mentioned in text, not illus.
Conover, Kirsten A. "Philip Guston: an Artist Who Dared Draw Things You Can Recognize." Christian Science Monitor, December 27, 1989, section Art, mentioned in text, not illus.
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. 14, illus. in color p. 45
Smith, Roberta. "A Philip Guston Decade Colored by Red and Pink." New York Times, April 28, 1995, section C, p. 32, mentioned in text, not illus.
Wilkin, Karen. "At the Galleries." Partisan Review 62, no. 3 (1995): pp. 419–428, illus. in b&w p. 423 (unpaginated), illus. sideways
Philip Guston: Paintings from the Fifties. Exh. cat. New York: McKee Gallery, 1995, cat. no. 10, illus. in color (no page #)
Koppelman, Dorothy. "Philip Guston: The Man, His Life and His Work." Terrain Gallery Online, Aesthetic Realism Foundation, September 1997, illus. in color online
Mack, Gerhard. "Philip Guston Künstler." Kritisches Lexikon der Gegenwartskunst 36, no. 3 (1997): pp. 1–16, mentioned in text p. 6, not illus.
The Edward R. Broida Collection: A Selection of Works. Exh. cat. Orlando: Orlando Museum of Art, 1998, illus. in color p. 72
Herzog, Samuel. "Stiller Abscheid vom Absoluten, Ausstellung Philip Guston im Kunstmuseum Bonn." Neue Zürcher Zeitung (Zurich), October 15, 1999, mentioned in text as "Mirror," not illus.
Anfam, David. "Bonn, Philip Guston." Burlington Magazine, December 1999, pp. 767-78, mentioned in text p. 767, not illus.
Schreier, Christoph, Michael Auping, and Martin Hentschel. Philip Guston: Gemalde 1947–1979. Exh. cat. Ostfildern: Hatje Cantz Verlag, 1999, unnumbered catalog, illus. in color p. 77
Philip Guston Tableaux / Paintings 1947 - 1979. Exh. cat. Ostfildern: Hatje Cantz Publishers, 2000, illus. in color p. 77 and mentioned in text pp. 18, 35
Nation. Danto, Arthur C. "Dick (Nixon) Heads." October 1, 2001, mentioned in text p. 36, not illus.
Krauss, Nicole. "The First Painter after the Last." Modern Painters, Winter 2003, mentioned in text p. 88, not illus.
Auping, Michael. Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, Philip Guston Retrospective. Exh. cat. London: Thames & Hudson, 2003, illus. in color Plate 43 (unpaginated but would be p. 142)
Slifkin, Robert S. "Dark Unfathomed Retrospect." Art Journal 62, no. 4 (2003): pp. 105–08, mentioned in text p. 106, 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 43 (unpaginated but would be p. 142)
Lambirth, Andrew. "Apocalyptic Vision." Spectator (London), January 24, 2004, p. 36, mentioned in text, 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. 104, not illus., listed as "Mirror"
Danto, Arthur Coleman. Unnatural Wonders: Essays from the Gap Between Art and Life. New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2005, mentioned in text p. 143, not illus.
MacAdam, Barbara. "Guston Low and High." Art & Auction, February 2006, pp. 112–14, illus. in color p. 112
Hohmeyer, Boris. "Die Entdeckung der Wirklichkeit." Art: Das Kunstmagazin March 2007, pp. 26–35, mentioned in text p. 34, not illus.
This Week in New York. "Riff's Rants & Raves: Art & Literature, Philip Guston: 1954–1958." February 4, 2009. Online, mentioned in text, not illus.
Proctor, R.A. "Go See: Philip Guston at L&M Arts, New York through February 28th, 2009." AO Art Observed, February 12, 2009. Online, illus. in color online and briefly mentioned in text
Yau, John. "Philip Guston 1954–1958 L&M Arts: January 15–February 28, 2009." Brooklyn Rail, March 2009. Online, illus. in color as part of an installation photo
Helander, Bruce. "Guston's Gusto." Art of the Times, Spring 2009, illus. in color
Berkson, Bill. Sudden Address: Selected Lectures 1981–2006. Austin: Cuneiform, 2007. Reprint, Austin: Cuneiform, 2010, mentioned in text pp. 27-28, not illus.
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Sutherland, Giles. "Philip Guston: 1913–1980—Late Paintings." Arts Journal, September 1, 2012. Online, mentioned in text, not illus.
Miller, Peter Benson. "Rotten With Stories." Apollo (London), June 2013. Print, illus. in color fig. 3, p. 62 and mentioned in text
Sylvester, David. Ein Gespräch mit Philip Guston. NichtSoKleineBibliothek 8. Bern: Piet Meyer Verlag, 2013, illus. in color p. 10, illus. no. 2
Miller, Peter Benson, ed. Go Figure! New Perspectives on Guston. New York: American Academy in Rome; New York Review of Books, 2014, illus. in color Fig. 47 p. 124. Also mentioned in text pp. 20 and 123
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Yau, John. "The Homages and Inventions of a Self-Taught Painter." Hyperallergic, June 25, 2017. Online, mentioned in text, not illus.
Thomas, Elly. Play and the Artist's Creative Process. New York: Routledge, 2019, mentioned in text p. 71, not illus.
Storr, Robert. Philip Guston: A Life Spent Painting. London: Laurence King Publishing, 2020, No. 55 illus. in color p. 71, illus. in b&w p. 303 as part of an installation photo and mentioned in text p. 75
McGlynn, Tom. "Guston/Morandi/Scully." Brooklyn Rail, October 2022, p. 85, mentioned in text, not illus.
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Taylor, Brandon. Make It Modern: A History of Art in the 20th Century. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2022, illus. in color on frontispiece and in color fig. 15.14 p. 268
Guston Morandi Scully. Exh. cat. New York: Mnuchin Gallery, 2022, illus. in color p. 23 and mentioned in text pp. 14 and 16
Wilkin, Karen. "Philip Guston in Boston, Houston, and Washington." Hudson Review, Spring 2023. Online, mentioned in text, not illus.
Coolidge, Clark, ed. Philip Guston: Que peindre sinon l'énigme. Translated by Éric Suchère. Strasbourg: L'Atelier Contemporain, 2023, mentioned in text p. 463, not illus.
Georg Baselitz: The Last Decade. Exh. cat. Istanbul: Sabancı University Sakıp Sabancı Museum, 2024, illus. in color Fig 1 p. 20
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Georg Baselitz. Something Everywhere. Paintings 2014-2025. Exh. cat. Bilbao: Bilbao Fine Arts Museum, 2025.
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Title
The Mirror
Date
1957
Medium
Oil on canvas
Dimensions
68 × 62 in. (172.7 × 157.5 cm)
Inscription
Signed front lower center: Philip Guston
Catalogue Number
P57.024
Provenance
Adriana & Robert Mnuchin
Auction: Christie's New York, Post-War and Contemporary Art (Evening Sale), November 8, 2005, Lot 39
Edward R. Broida
Joseph H. Hazen Collection, New York
Mrs. Bliss Parkinson
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