Catalogue Raisonné

P68.063

Untitled (Light Bulb), 1968
Oil on panel
12 x 14 in.
30.5 x 35.6 cm
Unsigned, undated  
Provenance
Promised gift of Musa Guston Mayer to The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Exhibitions
Whitechapel Gallery, London, England, "Philip Guston: Paintings 1969 - 1980", October 13, 1982 - December 12, 1982  Travelled to:
National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, Australia, "Philip Guston: The Late Works", August 17, 1984 - September 16, 1984  Travelled to:
Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia, Madrid, Spain, "Philip Guston: Retrospectiva de Pintura", March 01, 1989 - May 08, 1989  Travelled to:
McKee Gallery, New York, NY, "Philip Guston: Small Oils on Panels 1969-1973", November 05, 2009 - January 09, 2010 
Pace Gallery, New York, NY, "Burning, Bright: A Short History of the Light Bulb", October 29, 2011 - November 26, 2011
Schirn Kunsthalle Frankfurt, Frankfurt, Germany, "Philip Guston - das große Spätwerk", November 06, 2013 - February 02, 2014  Travelled to:
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Boston, MA, "Philip Guston Now", May 01, 2022 - September 11, 2022  Travelled to:
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY, "Philip Guston: The Panel Paintings, 1968-1972", April 12, 2024 - April 12, 2026 
The Jewish Museum, New York, NY, "Draw Them In, Paint Them Out: Trenton Doyle Hancock Confronts Philip Guston", November 08, 2024 - March 30, 2025 
Bibliography
Nicholas Serota, ed. Philip Guston: Paintings 1969–1980. Exh. cat. London: Whitechapel Art Gallery, 1982, cat. no. 1.A., not illus.
Philip Guston: The Late Works. Exh. cat. Melbourne: The National Gallery of Victoria, 1984, cat. no. 1, illus. in b&w p. 18, listed as "Light Bulb"
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. 36, illus. in color p. 96, listed as "Lightbulb"
Philip Guston: Small Oils on Panel 1969–1973. Exh. cat. New York: McKee Gallery, 2009, cat. no. 5, illus. in color (no page #)
Pfeiffer, Ingrid, and Max Hollein, eds. Philip Guston Das Grosse Spatwerk/Late Works. Exh. cat. Cologne: Strzeleckibooks, 2013, illus. in color p. 90
Philip Guston. Das Grosse Spätwerk/ Late Works. Frankfurt: Schirn Kunsthalle Frankfurt, November 5, 2013. Video, illus. in color
Mousse. "Philip Guston 'Late Works' at Schirn Kunsthalle, Frankfurt." January 16, 2014. Online, illus. in color as part of an installation photo
Baker, E. "Frankfurt—Philip Guston: 'Late Works' at Schirn Kunsthalle Frankfurt through February 2nd 2014." AO Art Observed, January 18, 2014. Online, illus. in color as part of an installation photo
Bertolo, Luca. "We Need Poets, We Need Painters. Philip Guston a Venezia." Le Parole e Le Cose, September 3, 2017. Online., illus. in color as part of an installation photo
Storr, Robert. Philip Guston: A Life Spent Painting. London: Laurence King Publishing, 2020, No. 102 illus. in color p. 109
Mayer, Musa. Philip Guston. London: Laurence King Publishing, 2020, illus. in color p. 57 and mentioned in text p. 53
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 82 p. 96
Bowen, Jared. 'Philip Guston Now' portrays art of controversial and confrontational painter. Washington D.C.: PBS News Hour, May 12, 2022. Video, illus. in color as part of an installation photo
Colucci, Emily. "'Philip Guston Now' is an Unintentionally Perfect Satire of Contemporary Liberal Cultural Politics." filthy dreams, May 23, 2022. Online, illus. in color as part of an installation photo
Allen, Brian T. "Philip Guston Now, Delayed by Race Hysteria, Finally Gets Its Day." National Review, October 1, 2022. Online, illus. in color as part of an installation photo
Fielder, Garland. "Review: 'Philip Guston Now' at the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston." Glasstire (Texas), December 6, 2022. Online, illus. in color as part of an installation photo
Bui, Phong. "Philip Guston Now—A Personal Meditation." Brooklyn Rail, May 2023. Online, illus. in color as part of an installation photo
Luzi, Irene. "Philip Guston alla Tate Modern, con più di 100 opere. Le immagini della mostra." ArtsLife (Milan), October 5, 2023. Online, illus. in color as part of an installation photo
Lawson-Tancred, Jo, "A Long-Delayed Retrospective of Philip Guston's Acerbic Paintings Finally Opens in London." artnet News, January 3, 2024. Online.
, illus. in color as part of an installation photo