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Philip Guston

Slope II

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November 19, 03:00 PM GMT

Estimate

300,000 - 400,000 USD

Bid

250,000 USD

Lot Details

Description

Philip Guston

1913 - 1980


Slope II

signed (lower right); signed, titled and dated 1961 (on a board affixed to the reverse)

oil on paper mounted on canvas

40 ⅛ by 30 ¼ in.

101.9 by 76.8 cm.

Executed in 1961.

Estate of the artist 

Hauser & Wirth, New York

Acquired from the above in 2017 by present owner

Detroit, Gertrude Kasle Gallery, Philip Guston: Paintings and Drawings, October 1969

Detroit, Gertrude Kasle Gallery, Philip Guston: Major Paintings of the Sixties, March - April 1973

New York, Robert Miller Gallery, Beyond the Canon. Small Scale American Abstraction 1945-1965, November 2008 - January 2009

New York, Hauser & Wirth, Philip Guston: Painter, April - July 2016, p. 68, illustrated in color

Oxford, Ashmolean Museum of Art and Archaeology, Philip Guston: Locating the Image, November 2019 - March 2020, fig. 1, p. 6, illustrated in color

Thomas Micchelli, "Flesh and Bones: Philip Guston's 'Thingness,'" Hyperallergic, 30 April 2016 (online)

Stephen Alexander, "Philip Guston at Hauser & Wirth," Stephen Alexander Journal, 1 May 2016, illustrated in color

Roberta Smith, "Abstract Expressionism's Restless Mutineer," The New York Times, 13 May 2016, p. C24

The Guston Foundation, The Philip Guston Catalogue Raisonné, ongoing, no. P61.015, illustrated in color (online)