Inscription: Signed and dated (lower left center): P. GOLDSTEIN 33,
the artist, Woodstock, N. Y. (from 1933); Charles Craig, Santa Barbara (by 1987–at least 1993); [Achim Moeller Fine Art, New York, from 1998]; private collection, Connecticut (until 2018; their estate sale, Rago Arts and Auction, Lambertville, N.J., November 10, 2018, no. 520; sold to Mayer); Musa Guston Mayer, New York (from 2018; her promised gift to MMA)
Santa Barbara Museum of Art. "Diverse Directions: A Collector's Choice. Selections from the Charles Craig Collection," December 12, 1987–February 7, 1988, unnumbered cat. (p. 65; as "Untitled").
Museum of Modern Art, New York. "The Drawings of Philip Guston," September 8–November 1, 1988, no. 2 (as "Punchinello Drawing," lent by Charles Craig).
Amsterdam. Museum Overholland. "Philip Guston (The Drawings of Philip Guston)," January 14–March 12, 1989, no. 2.
Barcelona. Centre Cultural de la Fundació Caixa de Pensions. "Dibuixos: Philip Guston," March 30–May 14, 1989, no. 2 (as "Punchinello Drawing," lent by Charles Craig).
Museum of Modern Art, Oxford. "The Drawings of Philip Guston," May 28–July 23, 1989, no. 2.
Dublin. Douglas Hyde Gallery, Trinity College. "The Drawings of Philip Guston," August 9–September 16, 1989.
Rome. Galleria Nazionale d'Arte Moderna e Contemporanea. "Philip Guston: Opere Su Carta 1933–1980," October 11–November 26, 1989, no. 1 (as "Punchinello Drawing," lent by Charles Craig).
Thousand Oaks, Calif. Conejo Valley Art Museum. "Selections from the Charles Craig Collection," October 23–December 5, 1993, no catalogue.
Ashmolean Museum, University of Oxford. "Philip Guston: Locating the Image," November 23, 2019–March 8, 2020, unnumbered cat. (fig. 15; as "Punchinello Drawing," lent by a private collection).
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. "Philip Guston Now," May 1–September 11, 2022, unnumbered cat. (pl. 4; as "Punchinello Drawing," lent by a private collection).
Museum of Fine Arts, Houston. "Philip Guston Now," October 23, 2022–January 15, 2023, unnumbered cat.
Washington, D.C. National Gallery of Art. "Philip Guston Now," March 2–August 27, 2023, unnumbered cat.
Magdalena Dabrowski. The Drawings of Philip Guston. Exh. cat., Museum of Modern Art. New York, 1988, pp. 15–16, 33, 172, no. 2, ill. p. 51 (color).
Emily Bardack Kies. "The Drawings of Philip Guston." The Museum of Modern Art. Exh. brochureNew York, 1988.
Guido Giuffrè. "I disegni di Philip Guston." La Discussione (November 4, 1989).
Josef Woodard. "SIGHTS: Collector’s Exhibit Has a Subtle but Powerful
Impact." latimes.com. November 11, 1993, calls it "Punchinello Drawing".
Karen Lang. Philip Guston: Locating the Image. Exh. cat., Ashmolean Museum, University of Oxford. Oxford, 2019, pp. 27, 32, fig. 15 (color).
Musa Mayer. Philip Guston. London, 2020, p. 9, ill. p. 8 (color), calls it "Punchinello Drawing".
Samuel McIlhagga. "Philip Guston's Controversial Embrace of Figuration Still Shapes His Market." artsy.net. November 3, 2020, ill. (color), calls it "Untitled (Punchinello Drawing)".
Alison de Lima Greene inPhilip Guston Now. Exh. cat., Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. Washington, D.C., 2020, pp. 183, 189, colorpl. 4.
Susan Saccoccia. "Spotlight Review: Philip Guston Now." Art New England 43 (July/August 2022), p. 67, calls it "Punchinello".
The Guston Foundation, ed. Catalogue Raisonné. Online resource [gustoncrllc.org/home/catalogue_raisonne], 2024–25 (accessed), no. P33.001, ill. (color).
Max Dunbar. "The Daily Struggle: Philip Guston and American Art in the 1930s." PhD diss., Washington University in St. Louis, May 2024, p. 165, fig. 3.12 (color).
Philip Guston (American (born Canada), Montreal 1913–1980 Woodstock, New York)
1936
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