Philip Guston

Philip Guston 1913 - 1980 Untitled. 1957. Oil on paper, mounted on fiberboard. Signed and dated in bottom center. 63.5 x 88.9 cm (25 x 35 in). [AR]. • PURE EMOTION Powerful strokes in Guston’s unmistakable palette. • WANTED His abstract works from the 1950s, along with his figurative works from the 1970s, are among the most sought-after works on the international auction market (source: artprice.com). ABSTRACT EXPRESSIONISM By 1957, Guston was one of the movement’s leading figures. • INTERNATIONAL STAGE Participation in documenta II in 1959 and in the Venice Biennale in 1960. • MUSEUM QUALITY Similar works are at the Museum of Modern Art, New York; the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles; and the Tate Modern, Londonn. The original work will be submitted to the Guston Foundation. PROVENANCE: Leo Castelli Gallery, New York. Private collection, New York (ca. 1958). Private collection, New York (inherited from the aforementioned). German collection (acquired from the above, Sotheby’s, New York, private sale). From a Swiss corporate collection (since 2018, Dorotheum, Vienna). LITERATURE: Dorotheum, Vienna, Auction Contemporary Art Part I, May 16, 2018, lot 209 (with color illustration). "Usually I am on a work for a long stretch, until a moment arrives when the air of the arbitrary vanishes and the paint falls into positions that feel destined." Philip Guston, 1956, quoted from: exhibition catalog 12 Americans, The Museum of Modern Art, New York 1956, p. 36. Called up: December 4, 2026 - ca. 18.54 h +/- 20 min.

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