Catalogue Raisonné

P70.009

Operation, 1970
Oil on canvas
72 x 80 in.
182.9 x 203.2 cm
Signed front lower left: Philip Guston; inscribed on reverse: "OPERATION" [underlined]/PHILIP GUSTON/[text crossed out], 1970/ 72" x 80"/ OIL [underlined] - I/ "
Provenance
Private Collection, Medina, WA
Exhibitions
La Jolla Museum of Contemporary Art, La Jolla, CA, "Philip Guston: Recent Work", July 31, 1971 - October 03, 1971 
IVAM Institut Valencia d’Art Modern, Valencia, Spain, "Philip Guston One-Shot Painting", December 13, 2001 - March 03, 2002  Travelled to:
Bibliography
Philip Guston: Recent Work. Exh. brochure. La Jolla: La Jolla Museum of Contemporary Art, 1971, cat. no. 23, not illus.
Philip Guston: One-Shot-Paintings/De Un Solo Aliento. Exh. cat. Essays by Kosme de Barañano, María Jesús Folch, Fernando Gomez Aguilera, and Manuel Padorno. Valencia: IVAM, 2001. In association with Ediciones Aldeasa, unnumbered catalog, color plate p. 171
Miralles, Carolina. "Philip Guston." La Glorieta, Arte, 2001, p. 7, mentioned in text, not illus.
Kaufmann, David. "The Double Mystery of Creativity and Personality: A New Biography Plumbs the Depths of Philip Guston's Character." Forward, February 27, 2004, illus. in b&w p. 10
Storr, Robert. Philip Guston: A Life Spent Painting. London: Laurence King Publishing, 2020, illus. in color p. 320 as part of an installation photo