Inscription: Signed, dated, and inscribed (verso): Philip Guston/"FABLE" II" [backwards 'F'] 1957/25 x 36/N.F.S.
the artist, Woodstock, N. Y. (1957–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)
New York. Sidney Janis Gallery. "Philip Guston," February 24–March 22, 1958, no catalogue.
Museu de Arte Moderna de São Paulo. "V Bienal, Estados Unidos, 1959," September 21–December 31, 1959, no. 16 (lent by the artist).
Venice. U.S.A. Pavilion. "XXX Biennale internazionale d’arte. Quattro Artisti Americani: Guston, Hofmann, Kline, Roszak," June 18–October 16, 1960, no. 7 (as "Favola II", lent by the artist, courtesy Sidney Janis Gallery, New York City).
New York. Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum. "Philip Guston," May 2–July 1, 1962, no. 36 (lent by the artist).
Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam. "Philip Guston," September 20–October 15, 1962, no. 34.
Palais des Beaux-Arts, Brussels. "Philip Guston," March 1–24, 1963, no. 34.
Los Angeles County Museum of Art. "Philip Guston," May 15–June 23, 1963, no. 36.
New York. Sidney Janis Gallery. "A Selection of 20th Century Art of 3 Generations," November 24–December 26, 1964, no. 23 (lent by the artist).
Waltham, Mass. Poses Institute of Fine Arts, Rose Art Museum, Brandeis University. "Philip Guston: A Selective Retrospective Exhibition, 1945–1965," February 27–March 27, 1966, no. 13 (lent by the artist).
New York. McKee Gallery. "Philip Guston: Paintings from the Fifties," April 22–June 3, 1995, no. 9.
Hauser & Wirth, New York. "Philip Guston: Painter 1957–1967," April 26–July 29, 2016, unnumbered cat. (p. 43; lent by a private collection).
"10 Americans Get Ford Art Grants: Painters and Sculptors Are Named for $10,000 Each to Free Them for Work." New York Times (February 18, 1959), p. 30.
Dore Ashton. Philip Guston. New York, 1960, ill. n. p. (color).
H. H. Arnason. Philip Guston. Exh. cat., Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum. New York, 1962, pp. 29, 42, no. 36, ill. p. 74 (color).
Sam Hunter. "Philip Guston." Art International 6 (May 1962), p. 66, ill. p. 64.
Jane Harrison. "London: Kitaj and Guston." Arts Magazine 37 (April 1963), p. 27.
William Berkson. "Philip Guston: A New Emphasis. In These Canvases of the 'Sixties Doubt Itself Becomes a Form That Can Be Read as Natural Law." Arts Magazine 40 (February 1966), p. 18.
Robert Storr. Philip Guston. New York, 1986, no. 30, ill. p. 36.
Pia Vivarelli inPhilip Guston, Opere su carta 1933–1980. Exh. cat., Galleria Nazionale d'Arte Moderna, Rome. Milan, 1989, ill. p. 52.
Kosme Maria de Barañano inPhilip Guston: La Raiz del Dibujo/Roots of Drawing. Ed. Kosme Maria de Barañano. Exh. cat., Sala Rekalde. Bilbao, 1993, p. 238.
Roberta Smith. "A Philip Guston Decade Colored by Red and Pink." New York Times (April 28, 1995), p. C32, ill.
Manuel Padorno inPhilip Guston: One-Shot-Painting/De Un Solo Aliento. Exh. cat., IVAM / Institut Valencia d'Art Modern. [Valencia], 2001, pp. 126, 129.
David McKee et. al. "Philip Guston: The Hands of Clocks." Hauser & Wirth 7 (Winter 2015), ill. p. 27 (color).
Matt Smith. "Hauser & Wirth to Display New Philip Guston Exhibit, 4/26." broadwayworld.com. April 12, 2016.
Eileen Kinsella. "Hauser and Wirth Opens Huge Philip Guston Show Pinpointing 'Pivotal' Decade." news.artnet.com. April 27, 2016, ill. (color).
Steph Eckardt. "Philip Guston's Pivotal Moment." wmagazine.com. April 27, 2016, ill. (color).
Thomas Micchelli. "Flesh and Bones: Philip Guston's 'Thingness'." hyperallergic.com. April 30, 2016, ill. (color).
"Philip Guston: Painter, 1957–1967." galleriesnow.net. May 10, 2016.
Ilka Scobie. "Philip Guston's Last Decade of Abstraction Hauser & Wirth NY." artlyst.com. May 10, 2016, ill. (color).
R.C. Baker. "Master Baffler: How Philip Guston Gave Form to Doubt." villagevoice.com. May 17, 2016.
Barry Schwabsky. "The Chameleon Painter: Even in His Most Pared-Down Paintings, Philip Guston Was Digging for Something New." thenation.com. June 1, 2016.
James Panero. "Gallery Chronicle." newcriterion.com. June 2016, ill. (color).
Hearne Pardee. "Roundtable: Philip Guston at Hauser & Wirth." artcritical.com. June 9, 2016, ill. (color).
"Philip Guston: Painter, 1957–1967 @ Hauser & Wirth New York." nyartsmagazine.net. April 13, 2016, ill. (color).
Paddy Johnson and Michael Anthony Farley. "This Week's Must See Events: So Many Open Studios." artfcity.com. April 26, 2016, ill. (color, detail).
"Philip Guston Painter, 1957–1967 at Hauser and Wirth (Video)." artefuse.com. May 21, 2016.
Katy Diamond Hamer. "In The Abstract." culturedmag.com. April 2016.
Alison Martin. "Philip Guston at Hauser & Wirth." arterynyc.com. July 8, 2016.
"New York Exhibits. Philip Guston at Hauser & Wirth." yareah.com. April 11, 2016.
Jerry Saltz. "How to Be an Artist." New York (November 26–December 9, 2018), ill. p. 32 (color).
Elly Thomas. Play and the Artist's Creative Process: The Work of Philip Guston and Eduardo Paolozzi. New York, 2019, p. 67.
Robert Storr. Philip Guston: A Life Spent Painting. London, 2020, pp. 64, 70, no. 52, ill. pp. 69 (color), 310 (color, installation photo, Exh. New York 1962).
Clark Coolidge, ed. Que peindre sinon l'énigme. Philip Guston: Écrits, conférences et entretiens, 1944–1980. 2nd ed. (1st ed., 2010]). [Strasbourg], 2023, p. 624, fig. 64 (color).
The Guston Foundation, ed. Catalogue Raisonné. Online resource [gustoncrllc.org/home/catalogue_raisonne], 2024–25 (accessed), no. P57.009, ill. (color).
Philip Guston (American (born Canada), Montreal 1913–1980 Woodstock, New York)
1936
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