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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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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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