Catalogue Raisonné

P69.117

Downtown, 1969
Oil on canvas
48 x 60 in.
121.9 x 152.4 cm
Signed front lower center: Philip Guston
Provenance
Collection of John McEnroe
Auction: Christie's New York, November 7, 1990, Lot 47
Private Collection
Exhibitions
Marlborough Gallery, New York, NY, "Philip Guston Recent Paintings", October 17, 1970 - November 07, 1970 
Boston University Art Gallery, Boston, MA, "New Paintings, Philip Guston", November 14, 1970 - December 13, 1970 
The John McEnroe Gallery, New York, NY, "Traylor, Guston, Basquiat, Komarin", September 13, 1996 - October 26, 1996
Haunch of Venison, New York, NY, "Abstract Expressionism: A World Elsewhere", September 09, 2008 - November 11, 2008
Bibliography
Rosenberg, Harold. "Liberation from Detachment." The New Yorker, November 7, 1970, pp. 136–41, mentioned in text p. 138, not illus.
Springfield [MA] News. "Guston's New Paintings Exhibited at BU." November 12, 1970. , illus.
Philip Guston. Exh. cat. New York: Marlborough Gallery, 1970, cat. no. 3, illus. in color p. 13
Rosenberg, Harold. The De-Definition of Art: Action Art to Pop to Earthworks. New York: Horizon Press, 1972, mentioned in text p. 135, not illus
Gladstone, Joan. "Guston Discusses Concept of 'Destiny in Painting.'" Spectrum (Boston, MA), February 24, 1977, p. 14, illus. in b&w pg. 14
Traylor Guston Basquiat Komarin. Exh. cat. New York: John McEnroe Gallery, 1996, illus. in color (no page #), essay by David S. Rubin
Yau, John. "Abstract Expressionism: A World Elsewhere." Brooklyn Rail, November 2008. Online, mentioned in text, not illus.
Abstract Expressionism: A World Elsewhere. Exh. cat. New York: Haunch of Venison, 2008, cat. no. 17, illus. in color p. 55
Slifkin, Robert. "Philip Guston's Return to Figuration and the "1930s Renaissance" of the 1960s." The Art Bulletin 93, no. 2 (2011): pp. 220–42, mentioned in text n16 p. 239, not illus.
Coolidge, Clark, ed. Philip Guston: Collected Writings, Lectures, and Conversations. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2011, mentioned in text p. 224, not illus.
Slifkin, Robert. Out of Time: Philip Guston and the Refiguration of Postwar American Art. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2013, illus. in color plate 14
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. 39 p. 108 (unpaginated). Also mentioned in text pp. 101, footnote 15 on p. 106, and p. 107
Storr, Robert. Philip Guston: A Life Spent Painting. London: Laurence King Publishing, 2020, No. 127 illus. in color p. 131, illus. in b&w p. 319 as part of an installation photo and mentioned in text p. 131