Inscription: Signed and dated (lower center): P.G. '74
the artist, Woodstock, N. Y. (1974–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.
Saratoga Springs, N.Y. Schick Art Gallery, Skidmore College. "Philip Guston: Early and Late Works," October 15–November 15, 1987, no. 8-D (as "Self-Portrait," lent by the estate of Philip Guston, courtesy David McKee Gallery, New York).
Bilbao. Sala Rekalde. "Philip Guston: La Raiz del Dibujo / Roots of Drawing," May 11–June 30, 1993, no. 0 (as "Auto-retrato [Self Portrait]," 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. 227; as "Self Portrait (Autorretrato)," 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.
Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth. "Philip Guston Retrospective," March 30–June 8, 2003, unnumbered cat. (pl. 89; as "Self-Portrait," 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.
Venice. Gallerie dell'Accademia. "Philip Guston and the Poets," May 10–September 3, 2017, unnumbered cat. (p. 6; as "Untitled," lent by a private collection).
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. "Philip Guston Now," May 1–September 11, 2022, unnumbered cat. (pl. 145; as "Untitled (Self-Portrait)," 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.
Dore Ashton. A Critical Study of Philip Guston. 2nd. ed. [1st ed., 1976]. Berkeley, 1990, ill. frontispiece.
Marcus Weber and Andreas Baur in5000 Jahre Moderne Kunst – Painting, Smoking, Eating. Exh. cat., Villa Merkel, Galerien der Stadt Esslingen am Neckar. Nürnberg, 2008, fig. 2, calls it "Selbstporträt".
Peter Benson Miller inPhilip Guston: Roma. Ed. Peter Benson Miller. Exh. cat., Museo Carlo Bilotti, Rome. Ostfildern, 2010, p. 30, fig. 5, calls it "Self-Portrait".
David Sylvester. Ein Gespräch mit Philip Guston. Bern, 2013, fig. 52 (color), calls it "Self-Portrait".
Karen Wilkin. "Philip Guston: Full Circle." Hopkins Review 7 (Fall 2014), ill. front cover.
Kerstin Stremmel. "Seine Radikalität war schuld." nzz.ch. July 19, 2017, ill. (color).
Robert Storr. Philip Guston: A Life Spent Painting. London, 2020, ill. p. 6 (color).
Musa Mayer. Philip Guston. London, 2020, p. 88, ill. p. 85 (color).
Clark Coolidge, ed. Que peindre sinon l'énigme. Philip Guston: Écrits, conférences et entretiens, 1944–1980. 2nd ed. (1st ed., 2010]). [Strasbourg], 2023, p. 626, fig. 144 (color), calls it "Sans titre [Self-Portrait]".
Philip Guston (American (born Canada), Montreal 1913–1980 Woodstock, New York)
1936
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