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P75.032

Head and Bottle, 1975
Oil on canvas
65½ x 68½ in.
166.4 x 174.0 cm
Signed front lower left: Philip Guston
Provenance
Private Collection New York
Auction: Christie's New York, Post-War and Contemporary Art Evening Sale, Wednesday, May 16, 2007, Lot 9
Sally Lilienthal
Exhibitions
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA, "Philip Guston, Retrospective 1930 - 1979", May 15, 1980 - June 29, 1980  Travelled to:
Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., "Philip Guston, Retrospective 1930 - 1979", July 20, 1980 - September 09, 1980
Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, Chicago, IL, "Philip Guston, Retrospective 1930 - 1979", November 12, 1980 - January 11, 1981
Denver Art Museum, Denver, CO, "Philip Guston, Retrospective 1930 - 1979", February 25, 1981 - April 26, 1981
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY, "Philip Guston, Retrospective 1930 - 1979", June 24, 1981 - September 13, 1981
Whitechapel Gallery, London, England, "Philip Guston: Paintings 1969 - 1980", October 13, 1982 - December 12, 1982  Travelled to:
Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, Netherlands, "Philip Guston: Paintings 1969 - 1980", January 13, 1983 - February 27, 1983
Kunsthalle Basel, Basel, Switzerland, "Philip Guston: Paintings 1969 - 1980", May 08, 1983 - June 19, 1983
Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia, Madrid, Spain, "Philip Guston: Retrospectiva de Pintura", March 01, 1989 - May 08, 1989  Travelled to:
Palau de la Virreina, Barcelona, Spain, "Philip Guston: Retrospectiva de Pintura", May 25, 1989 - July 16, 1989
Saint Louis Art Museum, St. Louis, MO, "Philip Guston: 50 Years of Painting", September 09, 1989 - October 22, 1989
Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas, TX, "Philip Guston: 50 Years of Painting", November 19, 1989 - January 14, 1990
The Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY, "High & Low: Modern Art and Popular Culture", October 07, 1990 - January 15, 1991 Travelled to:
The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL, "High & Low: Modern Art and Popular Culture", February 23, 1991 - May 12, 1991
The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA, "High & Low: Modern Art and Popular Culture", June 23, 1991 - September 15, 1991
Timothy Taylor Gallery, London, England, "Philip Guston", June 10, 2015 - July 11, 2015 
Bibliography
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Boettger, Suzaan. "Art for Modern Times." Daily Californian (Berkeley), June 26, 1980, pp. 8, 11, illus. p. 8 and mentioned in text p. 11
Toucatt, Ralph. "Metamorphosis: The Art of Philip Guston." The Threepenny Review, Fall 1980, p. 24, mentioned in text, not illus.
Rickey, Carrie. "Gust, Gusto, Guston." Artforum, October 1980, pp. 32–39, mentioned in text p. 39, not illus.
Lyon, Christopher. "Reflections on a Mirror." Chicago Reader, November 28, 1980, section 1, pp. 47–48, mentioned in text p. 48, not illus.
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Rose, Barbara. "Ugly? The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly: Neo-Expressionism Challenges Abstract Art." Vogue, March 1982, pp. 370–74, 425, illus. in color pg. 372-373
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Ammann, Jean-Christophe. "De L'Oeuvre Tardive de Philip Guston." Artistes, 1983, pp. 83–85, mentioned in text p. 84, not illus.
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Varnedoe, Kirk, and Adam Gopnik. High & Low: Modern Art and Popular Culture. Exh. cat. New York: Harry N. Abrams, 1990, illus. in color Fig. 107 p. 220 and mentioned in text p. 223
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, mentioned in text p. 191, not illus.
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Hauser & Wirth at Art Basel Miami Beach. Zurich: Hauser & Wirth, 2017, mentioned in text, not illus.
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Elliott, David. "The Unstoppable Paintings of Philip Guston." Border Crossings, November 2020, pp. 48-55, mentioned in text p. 54, not illus.
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Mayer, Musa. Night Studio: A Memoir of Philip Guston. 1988. Reprint, Zurich: Hauser & Wirth, 2023, illus. no. 102, illus. in color p. 261 and mentioned in text p. 260
Draw Them In, Paint Them Out: Trenton Doyle Hancock Confronts Philip Guston. Exh. cat. New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2024.
, illus. in color p. 28 and mentioned in text pp. 18 and 29