Philip Guston
Catalogue Raisonné

Title
Sleeper II
Date
1958 - 59
Medium
Oil on canvas
Dimensions
68 x 65 in.172.7 x 165.1 cm
Inscription
Signed front lower right: Philip Guston
Catalogue No.
P58.007
Provenance
Private Collection, Des Moines, IA
Exhibitions
Sidney Janis Gallery, New York, NY, "29 Recent Paintings by Philip Guston", December 28, 1959 - January 23, 1960
Dwan Gallery, Los Angeles, CA, "Philip Guston, Franz Kline", April 03, 1961 - April 29, 1961
Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, NY, "Philip Guston", May 03, 1962 - July 01, 1962
UCLA Art Galleries, Los Angeles, CA, "Virginia Dwan Collection", October 03, 1965 - October 24, 1965
Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia, Madrid, Spain, "Philip Guston: Retrospectiva de Pintura", March 01, 1989 - May 08, 1989
Des Moines Art Center, Des Moines, IA, "Shifting Visions: O'Keefe, Guston, Richter", October 10, 1998 - January 24, 1999
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., "Los Angeles to New York: Dwan Gallery, 1959-1971", September 30, 2016 - January 29, 2017
Dwan Gallery, Los Angeles, CA, "Philip Guston, Franz Kline", April 03, 1961 - April 29, 1961
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
UCLA Art Galleries, Los Angeles, CA, "Virginia Dwan Collection", October 03, 1965 - October 24, 1965
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
Des Moines Art Center, Des Moines, IA, "Shifting Visions: O'Keefe, Guston, Richter", October 10, 1998 - January 24, 1999
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., "Los Angeles to New York: Dwan Gallery, 1959-1971", September 30, 2016 - January 29, 2017
Bibliography
29 Recent Paintings by Philip Guston. Exh. cat. New York: Sidney Janis Gallery, 1959, cat. no. 6, illus. in b&w (no page #)
Kingston Daily Freeman (Kingston, NY). "Guston Exhibit Draws Acclaim at Janis Gallery." January 11, 1960, p. 14, mentioned in text, not illus.
Ashton, Dore. "Art." Arts & Architecture, March 1960, pp. 10–11, mentioned in text p. 11, not illus.
Ashton, Dore. Philip Guston. New York: Grove, 1960, illus. in b&w (unpaginated), listed as "Sleeper"
Philip Guston/Franz Kline. Exh. cat. Los Angeles: Dwan Gallery, 1961, cat. no. 3, illus. in color
Philip Guston. Exh. cat. New York: The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, 1962, cat. no. 58, not illus, Lent by Dwan Gallery, Los Angeles
Philip Guston. Exh. cat. Amsterdam: Stedelijk Museum, 1962, cat. no. 55, not illus.
Lambert, Helen. "Guston Show Heads London Gallery List." New York Herald Tribune (Paris), January 16, 1963, p. 5, mentioned in text, not illus.
Virginia Dwan Collection. Exh. cat. Los Angeles: UCLA Art Galleries, 1965, cat. no. 16, illus. in b&w p. 12, listed as being from 1959
Tyson, Janet. "Autobiographical side paints life of struggle." Fort Worth Star-Telegram, December 28, 1989, section Four, pp. 1, 7, 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. 19, illus. in color p. 62
DeLong, Lea Rosson. Shifting Visions O'Keeffe Guston Richter. Exh. cat. Des Moines: Des Moines Art Center, 1998, illus. in color p. 44 and mentioned in text p. 45
Dwan Gallery: Los Angeles to New York, 1959–1971. Exh. cat. Washington D.C.; London: National Gallery of Art; Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2016, cat. no. 7, illus. in color p. 107 and mentioned in text pp. 33, 292, and 369
Kingston Daily Freeman (Kingston, NY). "Guston Exhibit Draws Acclaim at Janis Gallery." January 11, 1960, p. 14, mentioned in text, not illus.
Ashton, Dore. "Art." Arts & Architecture, March 1960, pp. 10–11, mentioned in text p. 11, not illus.
Ashton, Dore. Philip Guston. New York: Grove, 1960, illus. in b&w (unpaginated), listed as "Sleeper"
Philip Guston/Franz Kline. Exh. cat. Los Angeles: Dwan Gallery, 1961, cat. no. 3, illus. in color
Philip Guston. Exh. cat. New York: The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, 1962, cat. no. 58, not illus, Lent by Dwan Gallery, Los Angeles
Philip Guston. Exh. cat. Amsterdam: Stedelijk Museum, 1962, cat. no. 55, not illus.
Lambert, Helen. "Guston Show Heads London Gallery List." New York Herald Tribune (Paris), January 16, 1963, p. 5, mentioned in text, not illus.
Virginia Dwan Collection. Exh. cat. Los Angeles: UCLA Art Galleries, 1965, cat. no. 16, illus. in b&w p. 12, listed as being from 1959
Tyson, Janet. "Autobiographical side paints life of struggle." Fort Worth Star-Telegram, December 28, 1989, section Four, pp. 1, 7, 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. 19, illus. in color p. 62
DeLong, Lea Rosson. Shifting Visions O'Keeffe Guston Richter. Exh. cat. Des Moines: Des Moines Art Center, 1998, illus. in color p. 44 and mentioned in text p. 45
Dwan Gallery: Los Angeles to New York, 1959–1971. Exh. cat. Washington D.C.; London: National Gallery of Art; Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2016, cat. no. 7, illus. in color p. 107 and mentioned in text pp. 33, 292, and 369
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Title
Sleeper II
Date
1958–59
Medium
Oil on canvas
Dimensions
68 × 65 in. (172.7 × 165.1 cm)
Inscription
Signed front lower right: Philip Guston
Catalogue Number
P58.007
Provenance
Private Collection, Des Moines, IA
Exhibitions
Bibliography
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