Live Auction 12153Post-War and Contemporary Art Morning Session
Philip Guston (1913-1980)
Lot 257

Philip Guston (1913-1980)

Untitled

Closed11 May 2016

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USD 100,000

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Philip Guston (1913-1980)
Untitled
signed and dated 'Philip Guston 1977' (lower center)
charcoal on paper
14 x 17 in. (35.6 x 43.2 cm.)
Executed in 1977.

Estate of Philip Guston
Private collection, New York
Anon. sale; SFMOMA Modern Art Council Art Auction, 19 May 2004, lot 26
McKee Gallery, New York
Acquired from the above by the present owner

Specialist note

"The more I painted, the more mysterious these objects became. The visible world, I think, is abstract and mysterious enough, I don't think one needs to depart from it in order to make art" (P. Guston, quoted in K. Stiles and P. Selz, eds., "Philip Guston Talking" in Theories and Documents of Contemporary Art: A Sourcebook of Artists' Writings, Berkeley, 1996, p. 250).