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Artist:: Philip Guston
(American, 1913–1980)
Title:: The Canvas,
1973
Medium:: oil on canvas
Size:: 170.4 x 200.8 cm. (67.1 x 79.1 in.)
Sale:: Contemporary Evening Auction, Thursday, October 12, 2023,
Lot 114
Estimate:: Est. 2,000,000–3,000,000 GBP
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(2,442,301–3,663,451 USD)
Price:: Sold for 3,073,000 GBP Premium
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(3,752,595 USD)
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Provenance:: The Artist
The Estate of the Artist
Hauser & Wirth, New York
Acquired from the above in 2016 by the present owner
Exhibitions:: Boston, Boston University Art Gallery, Philip Guston: New Paintings, March – April 1974, no. 4, n.p., illustrated
Valencia, Institut Valencià d’Art Modern and Maastricht, Bonnefanten Museum, Philip Guston One-Shot Painting, December 2001 – December 2002, p. 49, illustrated in colour (detail); p. 185, illustrated in colour
Edinburgh, Inverleith House, Philip Guston (1913 - 1980): Late Paintings, July – October 2012, no. 8, n.p., illustrated in colour
New York, McKee Gallery, Philip Guston: A Centennial Exhibition, March – April 2013, n.p., illustrated in colour (online)
Literature:: Robert Taylor, "Guston: The Raw and the Refined," Boston Sunday Globe, 24 March 1974, p. A-12, illustrated
Kay Larson, "From Abstraction to the Absurd: The Transformation of Philip Guston," Real Paper, 3 April 1974, pp. 20-21 (text)
Sondra Levin, "Guston Works Displayed in SFAA; Visions of Forms, Tales of Feelings," Daily Free Press, 9 April 1974, n.p. (text)
Dore Ashton, Yes, but... A Critical Study of Philip Guston, New York 1976, p. 180, illustrated
Clark Coolidge, "Clark Coolidge Class 1," Naropa Institute Jack Kerouac School of Disembodied Poetics, Boulder 1 July 1980, audio recording
Robert Storr, Philip Guston, New York 1986, no. 106, p. 108, illustrated
Dore Ashton, A Critical Study of Philip Guston, Berkeley 1990, p. 180, illustrated
Anon., "Portfolio and Documents: Philip Guston," TO: A Journal of Poetry, Prose & the Visual Arts 2, issue no. 3–4, 1994, pp. 159-206; p. 164, illustrated
Exh. Cat., Les Sables d'Olonne, Musée de l'Abbaye Sainte-Croix des Sables d'Olonne, Philip Guston (1913-1980) Oeuvres sur papier 1975-1980, June – September 1995, n.p., illustrated
Vincente Jarque, "Philip Guston, librepensador de la pintura," El País, 22 December 2001, p. 22 (text)
Carolina Miralles, "Philip Guston," La Glorieta, Arte, 2001, p. 7 (text)
Alexander van Grevenstein, "Philip Guston: The Demos (1973–1979)," trans. Beth O'Brien, Bonnefanten Magazine, Summer 2002, p. 19, illustrated in colour
Keith Bruce, "Between Pollock and Warhol," Herald, 27 July 2012, p. 19 (text)
Moira Jeffrey, "Different Strokes," Scotland on Sunday, 29 July 2012, p. 12 (text)
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Description:: Property from a Private Collection
Philip Guston
1913 - 1980
The Canvas
signed (lower right); signed, titled, dated 1973 and variously inscribed (on the reverse)
oil on canvas
170.4 by 200.8 cm.
67⅛ by 79 in.
Executed in 1973.

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