Philip Guston (1913-1980)
Lot 165

Philip Guston (1913-1980)

Untitled

Closed15 November 2012

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USD 1,082,500

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Philip Guston (1913-1980)
Untitled
signed with initials 'P.G.' (lower right)
oil on canvas
36 x 36 in. (91.4 x 91.4 cm.)
Painted in 1979.

Josephine Chalmers, New York
McKee Gallery, New York
Acquired from the above by the present owner

Specialist note

"I have a studio in the country-in the woods-but my paintings look more real to me than what is outdoors. You walk outside; the rocks are inert; even the clouds are inert. It makes me feel a little better. But I do have a faith that it is possible to make a living thing, not a diagram of what I have been thinking: to posit with paint something living, something that changes each day." Philip Guston