Inscription: Signed (lower left): Philip Guston; inscribed (verso): PHILIP GUSTON/ "FLAME" 1979 [underlined]/ OIL - 69x74 [underlined]
the artist, Woodstock, N. Y. (1979–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. David McKee Gallery. "A Tribute to Philip Guston: Paintings and Drawings from 1950 to 1980," October 11–November 12, 1980, no catalogue.
London. Whitechapel Art Gallery. "Philip Guston: Paintings 1969–1980," October 13–December 12, 1982, no. 35.
Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam. "Philip Guston: Paintings 1969–1980," January 13–March 6, 1983, no. 35.
Saratoga Springs, N.Y. Schick Art Gallery, Skidmore College. "Philip Guston: Early and Late Works," October 15–November 15, 1987, no. 13-P (lent by the estate of Philip Guston, courtesy David McKee Gallery, New York).
Cologne. Museum Ludwig. "Bilderstreit: Widerspruch, Einheit und Fragment in der Kunst seit 1960," April 8–June 28, 1989, no. 242 (lent by a private collection, New York).
Boston University Art Gallery. "Philip Guston 1975–1980: Private and Public Battles," September 17–October 30, 1994, unnumbered cat. (pl. 10; lent by a private collection, courtesy McKee Gallery, New York).
Neues Museum Weserburg Bremen. "Picasso, Guston, Miró, de Kooning: In vollkommener Freiheit... Painting for themselves: Late Works," October 20, 1996–February 7, 1997, no. 8 (lent by a private collection).
Kunstmuseum Bonn. "Philip Guston: Gemälde 1947–1979," September 2–November 1, 1999, unnumbered cat. (p. 127; lent by a private collection).
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. 80; lent by a private collection).
IVAM / Institut Valencia d'Art Modern. "Philip Guston: One-Shot Painting/De Un Solo Aliento," December 13, 2001–March 3, 2002, unnumbered cat. (p. 161; lent by a private collection, courtesy McKee Gallery, New York).
Maastricht, the Netherlands. Bonnefantenmuseum. "Philip Guston: One-Shot Painting/De Un Solo Aliento," March 17–December 8, 2002, unnumbered cat.
Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth. "Philip Guston Retrospective," March 30–June 8, 2003, unnumbered cat. (pl. 128; lent by a private collection).
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art. "Philip Guston Retrospective," June 28–September 27, 2003, unnumbered cat.
New York. The Metropolitan Museum of Art. "Philip Guston Retrospective," October 28, 2003–January 4, 2004, unnumbered cat.
London. Royal Academy of Arts. "Philip Guston Retrospective," January 24–April 12, 2004, unnumbered cat.
La Biennale di Venezia. "51st International Art Exhibition. The Experience of Art," June 12–November 6, 2005, unnumbered cat. (p. 107; lent by a private collection. Courtesy McKee Gallery, New York).
Kunstmuseum Bonn. "Die Sammlung: Color and Content," December 15, 2010–January 1, 2011, no catalogue.
Schirn Kunsthalle Frankfurt. "Philip Guston: Das große Spätwerk / Late Works," November 6, 2013–February 2, 2014, unnumbered cat. (p. 68; lent by a private collection).
Hamburg. Deichtorhallen. "Philip Guston Late Works," February 22–May 25, 2014, unnumbered cat.
Humlebaek. Louisiana Museum of Modern Art. "Philip Guston Late Works," June 4–September 7, 2014, unnumbered cat.
Venice. Gallerie dell'Accademia. "Philip Guston and the Poets," May 10–September 3, 2017, unnumbered cat. (p. 47; lent by a private collection).
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. "Philip Guston Now," May 1–September 11, 2022, unnumbered cat. (pl. 169; 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.
London. Tate Modern. "Philip Guston," October 5, 2023–February 25, 2024.
Lewis Kachur. "Philip Guston." Arts Magazine 55 (January 1981), p. 9, ill.
David Sweet. "Philip Guston and Beyond." Artscribe (December 1982), p. 27, ill.
Robert Storr. Philip Guston. New York, 1986, pp. 77, 79, no. 77, ill. (color).
Miles Unger. "Philip Guston: Wrestling with the Past." Art New England 16 (December 1994–January 1995), p. 71.
Cate McQuaid. "Battleground: How Philip Guston Fought the War to Create Art." Boston Phoenix (September 23, 1994), p. 11.
Mary Drach McInnes inPhilip Guston 1975–1980: Private and Public Battles. Exh. cat., Boston University Art Gallery. Boston, 1994, pp. 60, 62, colorpl. 10.
Christiane Vielhaber. "Bonn: Philip Guston." Kunstzeitung no. 38 (October 1999), p. 10, calls it "ewiges Licht" [eternal light].
Christoph Schreier inPhilip Guston: Gemälde 1947–1979. Ed. Christoph Schreier et al. Exh. cat., Kunstmuseum Bonn. Ostfildern-Ruit, 1999, pp. 25–26, 141, ill. p. 127 (color).
Petra Halkes. "Figuring Out Abstraction." Border Crossings 19 (August 2000), p. 75.
Kosme de Barañano inPhilip Guston: One-Shot-Painting/De Un Solo Aliento. Exh. cat., IVAM / Institut Valencia d'Art Modern. [Valencia], 2001, pp. 36–37, 39, 160, ill. p. 161 (color).
Manuel Padorno inPhilip Guston: One-Shot-Painting/De Un Solo Aliento. Exh. cat., IVAM / Institut Valencia d'Art Modern. [Valencia], 2001, pp. 144–45.
David Anfam. "Telling Tales: Philip Guston in Retrospect." Artforum 41 (May 2003), p. 192, ill. p. 138 (color).
Kosme Maria de Barañano inEl fuego bajo las ceniza (de Picasso a Basquiat)/ Fire Under the Ashes (from Picasso to Basquiat). Exh. cat., IVAM / Institut Valencia d'Art Modern. Valencia, 2005, pp. 22–23, 26–27, 304, ill. front cover (color), p. 25 (color).
Peter Benson Miller inPhilip Guston: Roma. Ed. Peter Benson Miller. Exh. cat., Museo Carlo Bilotti, Rome. Ostfildern, 2010, p. 34.
David Anfam. "Philip Guston: Rome and Washington." Burlington Magazine 152 (September 2010), p. 636, dates it 1980.
David Anfam. "Guston's Trauma: Ideal/Abject." Go Figure! New Perspectives on Guston. Ed. Peter Benson Miller. New York, 2014, p. 92, calls it "The Flame".
Poul Erik Tøjner. "Kontant." Louisiana Magasin no. 40 (May 2014), ill. p. 8 (color).
Kosme de Barañano inPhilip Guston & The Poets. Exh. cat., Gallerie dell'Accademia di Venezia. New York, 2017, pp. 56, 172, ill. p. 47 (color).
Dan Jakubowski. "Philip Guston and the Poets." artforum.com. July 5, 2017.
Robert Storr. Philip Guston: A Life Spent Painting. London, 2020, p. 209, no. 233, ill. p. 216 (color).
Harry Cooper inPhilip Guston Now. Exh. cat., Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. Washington, D.C., 2020, p. 125, colorpl. 169.
Mark Godfrey inPhilip Guston Now. Exh. cat., Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. Washington, D.C., 2020, p. 203.
Robin Pogrebin. "Met to Receive Trove of Philip Guston's Art." New York Times (December 15, 2022), p. C6.
Susan Saccoccia. "Spotlight Review: Philip Guston Now." Art New England 43 (July/August 2022), p. 67.
Vivienne Chow. "The Met Now Boasts the World's Largest Collection of Philip Guston's Work, Thanks to a 220-Piece Gift by the Artist's Daughter." news.artnet.com. December 15, 2022.
Joe Dziemianowicz. "220 Philip Guston Artworks Have a New Home at The Met." barrons.com. December 16, 2022, ill. (color).
Robin Pogrebin. "More Than 200 Philip Guston Works Are Headed to the Met." nytimes.com. December 14, 2022, ill. (color).
"The Met Museum Receives Gift of 220 Philip Guston Works From His Daughter." lavocedinewyork.com. December 14, 2022.
Barry Schwabsky. "Philip Guston Now." brooklynrail.org. July/August 2023, ill. (color, installation photo, Exh. Washington 2023).
Michael Wellen and Musa Mayer. "Transformations on a Canvas." Tate Etc. no. 59, [online resource: tate.org.uk], Autumn 2023.
The Guston Foundation, ed. Catalogue Raisonné. Online resource [gustoncrllc.org/home/catalogue_raisonne], 2024–25 (accessed), no. P79.011, ill. (color).
Philip Guston (American (born Canada), Montreal 1913–1980 Woodstock, New York)
1936
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