Catalogue Raisonné

P70.018

Courtroom, 1970
Oil on canvas
67 x 129 in.
170.2 x 327.7 cm
Signed front lower right: Philip Guston
Provenance
Robert and Jane Meyerhoff Collection
Auction: Sotheby's New York, November 13, 1991, Lot 48
Saatchi Collection, London
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 
La Jolla Museum of Contemporary Art, La Jolla, CA, "Philip Guston: Recent Work", July 31, 1971 - October 03, 1971 
National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, Australia, "Philip Guston: The Late Works", August 17, 1984 - September 16, 1984  Travelled to:
Saatchi Gallery, London, England, "Leon Golub, Sigmar Polke, Philip Guston, Joel Shapiro: the Saatchi Collection", April 29, 1988 - September 01, 1988
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: Major Paintings from the Seventies", October 05, 1996 - November 09, 1996 
Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, Fort Worth, TX, "Philip Guston Retrospective", March 30, 2003 - June 08, 2003  Travelled to:
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., "The Robert and Jane Meyerhoff Collection: Selected Works", October 01, 2009 - May 02, 2010
M.H. de Young Memorial Museum, San Francisco, CA, "Modernism from the National Gallery of Art: The Robert and Jane Meyerhoff Collection", June 07, 2014 - October 12, 2014
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., "Philip Guston Now", March 02, 2023 - August 27, 2023 
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