Signed front lower right: Philip Guston; inscribed on back: PHILIP GUSTON/ "SLOPE II" 1961 [underlined]/ 40 x 30 [underlined]
Catalogue No.
P61.015
Provenance
Collection Unknown
Auction: Sotheby's, New York, Contemporary Day Auction, November 19, 2025, Lot 241
European Private Collection
Exhibitions
Gertrude Kasle Gallery, Detroit, MI, "Philip Guston, Paintings and Drawings", October 04, 1969 - October 30, 1969 Gertrude Kasle Gallery, Detroit, MI, "Philip Guston: Major Paintings of the Sixties", March 10, 1973 - April 07, 1973 Robert Miller Gallery, New York, NY, "Beyond the Canon: Small Scale American Abstraction 1945-1965", November 20, 2008 - January 03, 2009 Hauser & Wirth, New York, NY, "Philip Guston: Painter", April 26, 2016 - July 30, 2016 Ashmolean Museum of Art and Archaeology, Oxford, England, "Philip Guston: Locating the Image", November 23, 2019 - March 08, 2020
Bibliography
Philip Guston: Major Paintings of the Sixties. Exh. cat. Detroit: Gertrude Kasle Gallery, 1973, unnumbered brochure, not illus.
Micchelli, Thomas. "Flesh and Bones: Philip Guston's 'Thingness.'" Hyperallergic, April 30, 2016. Online, mentioned in text, not illus.
Alexander, Stephen. "Philip Guston at Hauser & Wirth." Stephen Alexander Journal. Blog.May 1, 2016, illus. in color
Smith, Roberta. "Abstract Expressionism's Restless Mutineer." The New York Times, May 13, 2016, section Weekend Arts II, p. C24, mentioned in text, not illus.
Philip Guston: Painter 1957–1967. Exh. cat. New York: Hauser & Wirth, 2016, illus. in color p. 68
Lang, Karen and Lena Fritsch. Philip Guston: Locating the Image. Exh. cat. Oxford: Ashmolean Museum, University of Oxford, 2019, Fig. 1, illus. in color p. 6
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