Catalogue Raisonné

P71.130

Alone, 1971
Oil on canvas
52 x 93½ in.
132.1 x 237.5 cm
Signed front lower center: Philip Guston; inscribed on reverse: PHILIP GUSTON/ "ALONE" (underlined) 1971/ OIL - 52 x 93 1/2
Provenance
Promised gift of Musa Guston Mayer to The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Exhibitions
Boston University Art Gallery, Boston, MA, "Philip Guston: New Paintings", March 15, 1974 - April 14, 1974 
Gertrude Kasle Gallery, Detroit, MI, "Philip Guston", November 09, 1974 - December 12, 1974 
Hauser & Wirth, New York, NY, "Philip Guston: Laughter in the Dark, Drawings from 1971 & 1975", November 01, 2016 - January 14, 2017  Travelled to:
Hauser & Wirth, Los Angeles, CA, "Resilience: Philip Guston in 1971", September 14, 2019 - January 05, 2020 
Bibliography
Baker, Kenneth. "Review of Exhibitions: Boston, Philip Guston at Boston University." Art in America, May–June 1974, p. 115, mentioned in text p. 115, not illus.
Philip Guston New Paintings. Exh. cat. Boston: Boston University, 1974, cat. no. 19, not illus.
Mayer, Musa. Night Studio: A Memoir of Philip Guston by His Daughter. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1988, illus. in b&w no. 68 (following p. 178)
Mayer, Musa. Night Studio: A Memoir of Philip Guston by His Daughter. 1988. Reprint, New York: Penguin, 1990, illus. in b&w no. 68 (following p. 178)
Mayer, Musa. Night Studio: A Memoir of Philip Guston. 1988. Reprint, London: Thames and Hudson, 1991, illus. in b&w no. 68 (following p. 178)
Mayer, Musa. Night Studio: A Memoir of Philip Guston. Reprint, Boston: Da Capo Press, 1997.
, illus. in b&w no. 68 (following p. 178)
Botelho, Manuel. Guston em contexto: até ao regresso da figura. Lisbon: Livros Vendaval, 2007, mentioned in text p. 137, not illus.
Helmke, Juliet. "Philip Guston's Nixon Caricatures at Hauser & Wirth." Blouin Artinfo, November 2, 2016. Online, illus. in color and in color in slideshow attached to article
Rubenstein, Bradley. "In Political Nemesis, Philip Guston Found His Greatest Muse." ArtSlant, November 15, 2016. Online, illus. in color and mentioned in text
Cohen, Alina. "Philip Guston's Man Beyond Redemption." Nation, November 26, 2016. Online, illus. in color
Ambrose, David. "Philip Guston: Laughter in the Dark, Drawings from 1971 & 1975 at Hauser & Wirth." Whitehot Magazine, December 2016. Online, mentioned in text, not illus.
Yau, John. "Guston After Trump and Before Christmas." Hyperallergic, December 11, 2016. Online, illus. in color and mentioned in text
Cowan, Sarah. "Poor Richard." Paris Review, December 13, 2016. Online, illus. in color
Kim, Hyunjee Nicole. "Philip Guston's Nixon Drawings Are a Lesson in Satire." Apollo (London), January 18, 2017. Online, illus. in color
Venturi, Riccardo. "Le profetiche caricature di Philip Guston." doppiozero (Milan), May 11, 2017. Online, illus. in color
Artlyst. "Philip Guston Nixon Drawings Revisited in the Age Of Trump—Hauser & Wirth." May 15, 2017. Online, mentioned in text, not illus.
Frankel, Eddy. "Philip Guston: Laughter in the Dark, Drawings from 1971 & 1975." Time Out London, May 18, 2017. Online, illus. in color
Wall Street International. "Philip Guston." May 24, 2017. Online, mentioned in text, not illus.
Kherbek, William. "Philip Guston/Hauser & Wirth, London." Samizdat (Moscow), June 5, 2017. Online, detail illus. in color
Time Out London. "Three Shows You Have to See: Still on and Still Great." June 13–19, 2017, p. 79, illus. in color
Davie, William. "Philip Guston: 'Laughter in the Dark, Drawings from 1971 & 1975' at Hauser & Wirth London." Ambit, July 22, 2017. Online, mentioned in text, not illus.
Philip Guston: Nixon Drawings 1971 & 1975. Exh. cat. Essays by Musa Mayer and Debra Bricker-Balken. Zurich: Hauser & Wirth, 2017, illus. in color Fig. 9 p. 10
Ware, Chris. "Caricature: Or, Guston's Graphic Novel." New York Review of Books, February 6, 2018. Online, illus. in color and mentioned in text
Dunagan, Patrick James. "Resilience: Philip Guston in 1971". Rain Taxi (Minneapolis), Winter 2019.
, mentioned in text, not illus.
Mayer, Musa. Resilience: Philip Guston in 1971. Exh. cat. Zurich: Hauser & Wirth Publishers, 2019, illus. in color p. 168
Storr, Robert. Philip Guston: A Life Spent Painting. London: Laurence King Publishing, 2020, No. 136 illus. in color p. 139 and mentioned in text pp. 139 and 152
Mayer, Musa. Philip Guston. London: Laurence King Publishing, 2020, illus. in color pp. 80-81 and mentioned in text p. 85