Inscription: Signed (lower left): Philip Guston; inscribed (on verso): PHILIP GUSTON/ GOUACHE/ “BOOK” [underlined]/ 1968/ 30 x 32/ N.F.S. [underlined]
the artist, Woodstock, N. Y. (1968–d. 1980); his widow, Musa Guston, Woodstock, N. Y. (1980–d. 1992); their daughter, Musa Guston Mayer, New York (from 1992; her promised gift to MMA)
Kunstmuseum Bonn. "Philip Guston: Gemälde 1947–1979," September 2–November 1, 1999, unnumbered cat. (p. 93; lent by The Estate of Philip Guston).
Ottawa. National Gallery of Canada. "Philip Guston: Paintings of Four Decades," May 12–July 30, 2000, unnumbered cat.
Paris. Musée National d'Art Moderne, Centre Georges Pompidou. "Philip Guston Peintures 1947–1979," September 13–December 4, 2000, unnumbered cat. (p. 62).
New York. McKee Gallery. "Philip Guston: A Centennial Exhibition," March 2–April 20, 2013, no catalogue.
Venice. Gallerie dell'Accademia. "Philip Guston and the Poets," May 10–September 3, 2017, unnumbered cat. (p. 16; lent by a private collection).
Nicholas Serota, ed. Philip Guston: Paintings 1969–1980. Exh. cat., Whitechapel Art Gallery. London, 1982, ill. (frontispiece).
Robert Storr. Philip Guston. New York, 1986, no. 64, ill. p. 66.
David Anfam. "Bonn, Philip Guston." Burlington Magazine 141 (December 1999), p. 768, fig. 73.
Petra Halkes. "Figuring Out Abstraction." Border Crossings 19 (August 2000), p. 76.
Robert Slifkin. Out of Time: Philip Guston and the Refiguration of Postwar American Art. Berkeley, 2013, pp. 39, 66–68, fig. 12.
John Yau. "Philip Guston's Line." hyperallergic.com. March 24, 2013, ill. (color).
Xico Greenwald. "Guston at 100." newyorksun.com. March 19, 2013.
Thaddeus Radell. "Philip Guston: A Problematic Centennial." paintingperceptions.com. April 2, 2013.
"Philip Guston and the Poets @ Gallerie dell'Accademia di Venezia." art-it.asia. May 25, 2017, ill. (color, installation photo, Exh. Venice 2017).
Philip Guston. I Paint What I Want To See. [London], 2022, p. 205.
The Guston Foundation, ed. Catalogue Raisonné. Online resource [gustoncrllc.org/home/catalogue_raisonne], 2024–25 (accessed), no. P68.001, ill. (color).
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