Philip Guston
Catalogue Raisonné

Title
Afternoon
Date
1964
Medium
Oil on canvas
Dimensions
74 x 80¼ in.188.0 x 203.8 cm
Inscription
Unsigned, undated; inscribed on reverse: PHILIP GUSTON/ "AFTERNOON" [underlined] 1964/ OIL 74 x 80 [underlined]
Catalogue No.
P64.001
Provenance
Private Collection USA
Auction: Christie's, New York, Rockefeller Plaza, 20th Century Art (Day Sale), May 14, 1999, Lot 707
Sarah Campbell Blaffer Foundation
Auction: Sotheby's Parke Bernet, New York, October 24, 1974, Lot 510
Josephine Cockrell Thornton, Washington, D.C.
Exhibitions
The Jewish Museum, New York, NY, "Philip Guston, Recent Paintings and Drawings", January 12, 1966 - February 13, 1966
Santa Barbara Museum of Art, Santa Barbara, CA, "Philip Guston", February 15, 1967 - March 26, 1967
El Paso Museum of Art, El Paso, TX, "American Abstract Expressionist Paintings", December 08, 1977 - January 29, 1978
Texas Tech University, Lubbock, TX, "American Abstract Expressionist Paintings", August 1978 - October 1978
Santa Barbara Museum of Art, Santa Barbara, CA, "The Heroic Generation: American Abstract Expressionist Paintings from the Sarah Campbell Blaffer Foundation", February 05, 1983 - March 20, 1983
Manny Silverman Gallery, Los Angeles, CA, "Philip Guston: Selected Works on Paper and Canvas 1951-1978", November 07, 1998 - December 19, 1998
Fogg Art Museum, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, "Philip Guston: A New Alphabet, The Late Transition", September 23, 2000 - February 04, 2001
Hauser & Wirth, New York, NY, "Philip Guston: Painter", April 26, 2016 - July 30, 2016
Santa Barbara Museum of Art, Santa Barbara, CA, "Philip Guston", February 15, 1967 - March 26, 1967
El Paso Museum of Art, El Paso, TX, "American Abstract Expressionist Paintings", December 08, 1977 - January 29, 1978
Texas Tech University, Lubbock, TX, "American Abstract Expressionist Paintings", August 1978 - October 1978
Santa Barbara Museum of Art, Santa Barbara, CA, "The Heroic Generation: American Abstract Expressionist Paintings from the Sarah Campbell Blaffer Foundation", February 05, 1983 - March 20, 1983
Manny Silverman Gallery, Los Angeles, CA, "Philip Guston: Selected Works on Paper and Canvas 1951-1978", November 07, 1998 - December 19, 1998
Fogg Art Museum, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, "Philip Guston: A New Alphabet, The Late Transition", September 23, 2000 - February 04, 2001
Hauser & Wirth, New York, NY, "Philip Guston: Painter", April 26, 2016 - July 30, 2016
Bibliography
Guston, Philip, Harold Rosenberg, and Jewish Museum. Philip Guston: Recent Paintings and Drawings. Introduction by Sam Hunter. Exh. cat. New York: Jewish Museum, 1965, cat. no. 15, illus. in b&w, Collection the artist
Philip Guston. Exh. cat. Santa Barbara: Santa Barbara Museum of Art, 1967, cat. no. 7, illus. in b&w unpaginated
Richerson, Suzanne. "Expressionist Impact on Art is Displayed." Daily Iowan, September 29, 1982, section Arts and Entertainment, p. 6B, mentioned in text, not illus.
Pagel, David. "Jabs and Stabs." Los Angeles Times, November 13, 1998, p. F27, mentioned in text, not illus.
Weber, Joanna, Harry Cooper, and Laura Greengold. Philip Guston A New Alphabet: The Late Transition. Exh. cat. New Haven: Yale University Art Gallery, 2000, illus. in color Plate 4, shown at Harvard only
Cooper, Harry. "Recognizing Guston (In Four Slips)." October 99 (2002): pp. 96–129, illus. in b&w p. 121
Micchelli, Thomas. "Flesh and Bones: Philip Guston's 'Thingness.'" Hyperallergic, April 30, 2016. Online, mentioned in text, not illus.
Philip Guston: Painter 1957–1967. Exh. cat. New York: Hauser & Wirth, 2016, illus. in color p. 89
Philip Guston. Exh. cat. Santa Barbara: Santa Barbara Museum of Art, 1967, cat. no. 7, illus. in b&w unpaginated
Richerson, Suzanne. "Expressionist Impact on Art is Displayed." Daily Iowan, September 29, 1982, section Arts and Entertainment, p. 6B, mentioned in text, not illus.
Pagel, David. "Jabs and Stabs." Los Angeles Times, November 13, 1998, p. F27, mentioned in text, not illus.
Weber, Joanna, Harry Cooper, and Laura Greengold. Philip Guston A New Alphabet: The Late Transition. Exh. cat. New Haven: Yale University Art Gallery, 2000, illus. in color Plate 4, shown at Harvard only
Cooper, Harry. "Recognizing Guston (In Four Slips)." October 99 (2002): pp. 96–129, illus. in b&w p. 121
Micchelli, Thomas. "Flesh and Bones: Philip Guston's 'Thingness.'" Hyperallergic, April 30, 2016. Online, mentioned in text, not illus.
Philip Guston: Painter 1957–1967. Exh. cat. New York: Hauser & Wirth, 2016, illus. in color p. 89
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Title
Afternoon
Date
1964
Medium
Oil on canvas
Dimensions
74 × 80¼ in. (188.0 × 203.8 cm)
Inscription
Unsigned, undated; inscribed on reverse: PHILIP GUSTON/ "AFTERNOON" [underlined] 1964/ OIL 74 x 80 [underlined]
Catalogue Number
P64.001
Provenance
Private Collection USA
Auction: Christie's, New York, Rockefeller Plaza, 20th Century Art (Day Sale), May 14, 1999, Lot 707
Sarah Campbell Blaffer Foundation
Auction: Sotheby's Parke Bernet, New York, October 24, 1974, Lot 510
Josephine Cockrell Thornton, Washington, D.C.
Exhibitions
Bibliography
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