Philip Guston (1913-1980)
Lot 601 Property from an Important European Collection

Philip Guston (1913-1980)

Untitled

Closed16 November 2017

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Philip Guston (1913-1980)
Untitled
ink on paper
15 7/8 x 10 7/8 in. (40.5 x 27.5 cm.)
Drawn circa 1969.

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

Specialist note

The Guston Foundation confirms that this lot will be included in the future catalogue raisonné of the drawings of Philip Guston.

“In the course of his decades-long career, [drawing] repeatedly ushered in new phases of creativity and repeatedly served to articulate radically different approaches ...Drawing invariably had a key role to play whenever Guston’s painting was in a state of crisis. For him, to draw was always to pause for thought, was always a chance to catch his breath or an opportunity for critical reorientation (“Forward,” Philip Guston: Works on Paper, exh. cat., The Morgan Library & Museum, New York, 2007, p 7)