Catalogue Raisonné
P75.041
Oil on canvas
67½ x 80¼ in.
171.4 x 203.8 cm
Signed front lower right: Philip Guston; inscribed on reverse: PHILIP GUSTON/ "THE MAGNET" [underlined]/ OIL - 67 1/2" x 80 1/4"
- Provenance
- Private Collection, Germany
- Auction: Sotheby's New York, Contemporary Art, Part I, November 13, 1991, Lot 69
- Doris and Charles Saatchi, London
- Exhibitions
- David McKee Gallery, New York, NY, "Philip Guston Paintings 1975", March 06, 1976 - April 10, 1976
- Whitechapel Gallery, London, England, "Philip Guston: Paintings 1969 - 1980", October 13, 1982 - December 12, 1982 Travelled to:
- Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, Netherlands, "La Grande Parade: Highlights in Painting after 1940", December 15, 1984 - April 15, 1985
- Royal Scottish Academy, Edinburgh, Scotland, "Art of Our Time", August 09, 1987 - August 31, 1987
- Saatchi Gallery, London, England, "Leon Golub, Sigmar Polke, Philip Guston, Joel Shapiro: the Saatchi Collection", April 29, 1988 - September 01, 1988
- Museum moderner Kunst Stiftung Ludwig Wien - MUMOK, Vienna, Austria, "Painting 2.0: Expression in the Information Age", June 04, 2016 - November 06, 2016
- Gallerie dell'Accademia, Venice, Italy, "Philip Guston and the Poets", May 10, 2017 - September 03, 2017
- Bibliography
- Philip Guston Paintings 1975. Exh. cat. New York: David McKee Gallery, 1976, cat. no. 7, not illus.
- Packer, William. "Change and Philip Guston." Financial Times (London), October 26, 1982, illus. as part of an installation photo
- Nicholas Serota, ed. Philip Guston: Paintings 1969–1980. Exh. cat. London: Whitechapel Art Gallery, 1982, cat. no. 10, illus. in color p. 24 (unpaginated) and illus. in b&w p. 55
- van Grevenstein, Alexander, Edy de Wilde, and Karel Schampers. La Grande Parade. Hoogtepunten van de schilderkunst na 1940/Highlights in Painting After 1940. Exh. cat. Amsterdam: Stedelijk Museum, 1984, cat. no. 99, illus. in color p. 149
- Fuchs, Rudi, Hilton Kramer, and Peter Schjeldahl. Art of Our Time: The Saatchi Collection, vol. 3. London: Lund Humphries, 1984, illus. in color Plate 22 p. 56 (unpaginated) and mentioned in text pp. 13-14 (Peter Schjeldahl essay)
- Morgan, Stuart. "Bread and Circusus." Artforum, March 1985, pp. 82–86, illus. p. 84 and mentioned in text p. 85
- Storr, Robert. Philip Guston. New York: Abbeville Modern Masters, 1986, illus. in color no. 78 p. 78 and mentioned in text p. 79
- Art of Our Time: The Saatchi Collection. Exh. cat. Royal Scottish Academy, [1987], illus. in color p. 9
- Schjeldahl, Peter. The Hydrogen Jukebox: Selected Writings of Peter Schjeldahl, 1978–1990. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1991, mentioned in text p. 229, not illus.
- Newton, Steven James. Painting, Psychoanalysis, and Spirituality. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2001, mentioned in text pp. 122 and 135, 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, illus. in color p. 85
- Bucklow, Christopher. What Is in the Dwat: The Universe of Guston's Final Decade. Grasmere, England: Wordsworth Trust, 2007, Plate 22, illus. in color p. 179 and mentioned in text pp. 84, 128 and 133
- Kaufmann, David. Telling Stories: Philip Guston's Later Works. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2010, mentioned in text pp. 60-61, not illus.
- Jewish Exponent. "Art for Art's Sake: Speaking Volumes." May 25, 2011. Online, illus. in b&w online
- Coolidge, Clark, ed. Philip Guston: Collected Writings, Lectures, and Conversations. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2011, illus. in b&w p. 285, mentioned in text p. 286
- Pfeiffer, Ingrid, and Max Hollein, eds. Philip Guston Das Grosse Spatwerk/Late Works. Exh. cat. Cologne: Strzeleckibooks, 2013, illus. in color fig. 5 p. 130 ("Philip Guston Talking: A Lecture at the University of Minnesota")
- Sylvester, David. Ein Gespräch mit Philip Guston. NichtSoKleineBibliothek 8. Bern: Piet Meyer Verlag, 2013, illus. in color p. 83, illus. no. 32
- Kondaratos, Yiannis. Philip Guston, the Painter in Eden. Writings, Lectures and Conversations. Athen: School of Fine Arts Editions, 2014, illus. in b&w fig. 11 p. 60
- Painting 2.0: Expression in the Information Age. Exh. cat. Munich: Prestel, 2015, illus. in color p. 124
- Wullschläger, Jackie. "Star-spangled biennale: Americans shine in Venice." Financial Times (London), May 12, 2017, section Visual Arts. Online, mentioned in text, not illus.
- Wullschläger, Jackie. "Star-spangled biennale: Americans shine in Venice." Financial Times (London), May 13/14, 2017, section Arts, p. 12, mentioned in text, not illus.
- Art It. "Philip Guston and the Poets @ Gallerie dell'Accademia di Venezia." May 25, 2017. Online, illus. in color as part of an installation photo
- Sirlin, Deanna. "Philip Guston: A Painter and His Muses." Art Section (Atlanta), June 2017. Online, illus. in color and mentioned in text
- Philip Guston & The Poets. Exh. cat. Essay by Kosme de Barañano. Hauser & Wirth, 2017, illus. in color on front of dust jacket and p. 38 and mentioned in text p. 25
- Mayer, Musa. Philip Guston. London: Laurence King Publishing, 2020, illus. in color p. 86 and mentioned in text p. 88
- Storr, Robert. Philip Guston: A Life Spent Painting. London: Laurence King Publishing, 2020, No. 181 illus. in color p. 174, illus. in b&w p. 326 as part of a photo with Guston, illus. in color p. 329 as part of an installation photo and mentioned in text pp. 13, 220
- Coolidge, Clark, ed. Philip Guston: Que peindre sinon l'énigme. Translated by Éric Suchère. Strasbourg: L'Atelier Contemporain, 2023, illus. in color no. 125 (unpaginated)
