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Lot 604 Property from an Important European Collection
Philip Guston (1913-1980)
Untitled (Wood and Wall)
Closed16 November 2017
Price Realised
USD 444,500
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Specialist note
The Guston Foundation confirms that this lot will be included in the forthcoming catalogue raisonné of the paintings of Philip Guston.
I knew I wanted to go on and deal with concrete objects... I must have done hundreds of paintings of shoes, books, hands, buildings and cars, just everyday objects. And the more I did 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.
-Philip Guston
I knew I wanted to go on and deal with concrete objects... I must have done hundreds of paintings of shoes, books, hands, buildings and cars, just everyday objects. And the more I did 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.
-Philip Guston