Inscription: Signed (lower left): Philip Guston; inscribed (verso): PHILIP GUSTON/ "SMOKING I" [underlined] . 1973 [underlined]/ OIL . 52 3/4 x 54
the artist, Woodstock, N. Y. (1973–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)
Boston University, School of Fine & Applied Arts Gallery. "Philip Guston: New Paintings," March 15–April 14, 1974, no. 15 (as "Smoking").
New York. David McKee Gallery Inc. "Philip Guston," November 15–December 18, 1974, no. 15.
Melbourne. National Gallery of Victoria. "Philip Guston: The Late Works," August 18–September 16, 1984, no. 16 (lent by David McKee Gallery, New York).
Art Gallery of Western Australia, Perth. "Philip Guston: The Late Works," September 27–October 28, 1984, no. 16.
Sydney. Art Gallery of New South Wales. "Philip Guston: The Late Works," November 8–December 30, 1984, no. 16.
IVAM / Institut Valencia d'Art Modern. "Philip Guston: One-Shot Painting/De Un Solo Aliento," December 13, 2001–March 3, 2002, unnumbered cat. (p. 151; lent by a private collection, Woodstock).
Maastricht, the Netherlands. Bonnefantenmuseum. "Philip Guston: One-Shot Painting/De Un Solo Aliento," March 17–December 8, 2002, unnumbered cat.
Inverleith House, Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh. "Philip Guston: Late Paintings," July 25–October 7, 2012, no. 7 (lent by a private collection, courtesy of McKee Gallery, New York).
Hauser & Wirth, Hong Kong. "Philip Guston: A Painter's Forms, 1950–1979," May 29–August 25, 2018, unnumbered cat. (p. 55; lent by a private collection).
Philip Guston and Harold Rosenberg. "Conversations: Philip Guston and Harold Rosenberg: Guston's Recent Paintings." Boston University Journal 22 (Fall 1974), p. 44, ill. p. 58.
Ross Feld inPhilip Guston. Exh. cat., San Francisco Museum of Modern Art. New York, 1980, p. 26, fig. 10, calls it "Smoking".
Nicholas Serota, ed. Philip Guston: Paintings 1969–1980. Exh. cat., Whitechapel Art Gallery. London, 1982, ill. p. 54.
Edward F. Fry inPhilip Guston: The Late Works. Exh. cat., National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne. [Sydney], 1984, pp. 19, 64, no. 16, ill. p. 31 (color).
Memory Holloway. "Portrait of the Artist as an Insomniac." Age (August 25, 1984), p. 14, ill., calls it "Smoking".
John Buckley inPhilip Guston: The Late Works. Exh. cat., National Gallery of Victoria. [Sydney], 1984, p. 11, calls it "Smoking".
Robert Storr. Philip Guston. New York, 1986, no. 4, ill. p. 9.
Barbara A. MacAdam. "Sorting out Sources." Art News 89 (October 1990), ill. p. 106.
Kosme Maria de Barañano inPhilip Guston: La Raiz del Dibujo/Roots of Drawing. Ed. Kosme Maria de Barañano. Exh. cat., Sala Rekalde. Bilbao, 1993, ill. p. 253 (with the artist in his studio), calls it "Smoking II" and dates it 1972.
Seth Frechie and Andrew Mossin, ed. "Portfolio and Documents: Philip Guston." TO: A Journal of Poetry, Prose, and the Visual Arts 2 (Spring 1994), p. 184, ill. p. 175, publish the poem "Smoking" by Clark Coolidge.
William Corbett. Philip Guston's Late Work: A Memoir. Cambridge, Mass., 1994, p. 47, calls it "Smoking".
Kosme de Barañano inPhilip Guston: One-Shot-Painting/De Un Solo Aliento. Exh. cat., IVAM / Institut Valencia d'Art Modern. [Valencia], 2001, pp. 16–17, 284–85, ill. p. 151 (color).
Manuel Padorno inPhilip Guston: One-Shot-Painting/De Un Solo Aliento. Exh. cat., IVAM / Institut Valencia d'Art Modern. [Valencia], 2001, pp. 140–41.
Clark Coolidge, ed. Philip Guston: Collected Writings, Lectures, and Conversations. Berkeley, 2011, pp. 269–70.
Keith Bruce. "Between Pollock and Warhol." Herald (Glasgow) (July 27, 2012), p. 19.
Adrian Hamilton. "The Hand That Rocked the Art Establishment." Independent (August 20, 2012), p. 45, ill. (color).
Mark Sadler. "Philip Guston/Mick Peter, Inverleith House/Collective Gallery, Edinburgh." Frieze no. 151 (November–December 2012), p. 165.
Moira Jeffrey. "Different Strokes." Scotland on Sunday (July 29, 2012), p. 12, ill. (color).
David Anfam and Paul Nesbitt inPhilip Guston: Late Paintings. Exh. cat., Inverleith House, Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh. Edinburgh, 2012, pp. 29–30, 32–33, colorpl. 7, and ill. n.p. (color, installation photo).
Philip Larratt-Smith inPhilip Guston: Late Paintings. Exh. cat., Inverleith House, Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh. Edinburgh, 2012, p. 55.
Alastair Sooke. "Philip Guston: Late Paintings, Inverleith House, Review." telegraph.co.uk. August 21, 2012.
Philip Guston inPhilip Guston: Das Grosse Spätwerk/Late Works. Ed. Ingrid Pfeiffer and Max Hollein. Exh. cat., Schirn Kunsthalle Frankfurt. Cologne, 2013, pp. 128–29, fig. 3 (color).
Craig Burnett. Philip Guston: The Studio. London, 2014, pp. 67, 89–90.
Robert Storr. Philip Guston: A Life Spent Painting. London, 2020, p. 153, no. 156, ill. pp. 154 (color), 323 (color, with the artist in his studio), 324 (color, installation photo, Exh. Boston 1974).
Philip Guston. I Paint What I Want To See. [London], 2022, p. 223, reprints Ref. Guston and Rosenberg 1974.
Robin Pogrebin. "More Than 200 Philip Guston Works Are Headed to the Met." nytimes.com. December 14, 2022, ill. (color, with the artist in his studio).
Ben Luke. "The Enigma of Philip Guston: Two Books Unpack Artist's Fascination With Dualities." theartnewspaper.com. May 24, 2022, ill. (color, with the artist in his studio).
Musa Mayer. Night Studio: A Memoir of Philip Guston. 7th [1st ed, 1988]. [Zurich], 2023, p. 363, fig. 97 (color, with the artist in his studio, 1974).
Clark Coolidge, ed. Que peindre sinon l'énigme. Philip Guston: Écrits, conférences et entretiens, 1944–1980. 2nd ed. [1st ed., 2010]. [Strasbourg], 2023, fig. 126 (installation photo, Exh. New York 1974).
The Guston Foundation, ed. Catalogue Raisonné. Online resource [gustoncrllc.org/home/catalogue_raisonne], 2024–25 (accessed), no. P73.026, ill. (color).
Philip Guston (American (born Canada), Montreal 1913–1980 Woodstock, New York)
1971
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