Catalogue Raisonné
P76.030
Oil on canvas
69 x 98 in.
175.3 x 248.9 cm
Signed front lower center: P.G.; inscribed on reverse: PHILIP GUSTON/"FLOOR" (underlined) 1976/OIL. 69 x 98 1/2/ N.F.S. (underlined) COLLECTION OF ARTIST (underlined)
- Provenance
- Promised gift of Musa Guston Mayer to The Metropolitan Museum of Art
- Exhibitions
- David McKee Gallery, New York, NY, "Philip Guston: Paintings 1976", Part I: March 18-April 8, 1977, Part II; April 9 - April 30, 1977
- San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA, "Philip Guston, Retrospective 1930 - 1979", May 15, 1980 - June 29, 1980 Travelled to:
- Whitechapel Gallery, London, England, "Philip Guston: Paintings 1969 - 1980", October 13, 1982 - December 12, 1982 Travelled to:
- National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, Australia, "Philip Guston: The Late Works", August 17, 1984 - September 16, 1984 Travelled to:
- The Museum of Art, Fort Lauderdale, FL, "An American Renaissance: Painting and Sculpture Since 1940", January 12, 1986 - March 30, 1986
- Bibliography
- Philip Guston: Paintings 1976. Exh. cat. New York: David McKee Gallery, 1977, cat. no. 4, illus. in b&w (unpaginated)
- Toucatt, Ralph. "Metamorphosis: The Art of Philip Guston." The Threepenny Review, Fall 1980, p. 24, mentioned in text, not illus.
- Philip Guston. Exh. cat. New York: George Braziller, 1980, cat. no. 67, illus. in color plate 57 p. 100
- Nicholas Serota, ed. Philip Guston: Paintings 1969–1980. Exh. cat. London: Whitechapel Art Gallery, 1982, cat. no. 15, illus. in color p. 27 (unpaginated)
- Philip Guston: The Late Works. Exh. cat. Melbourne: The National Gallery of Victoria, 1984, cat. no. 21, illus. in color p. 36 and illus. in b&w p. 23, listed as "Floor" in checklist but as "The Floor" with b&w illus.. Also mentioned in text p. 19 as "The Floor"
- Ablow, Joseph. "Philip Guston: The Last Paintings." Bostonia Magazine April/May 1986: pp. 14–19, illus. in color p. 15, listed as "The Floor"
- An American Renaissance: Painting and Sculpture Since 1940. Exh. cat. New York: Abbeville Press, 1986. texts, illus. in color plate 118 p. 226 and mentioned in text p. 216 erroneously as being from 1978
- McGrath, Patrick. "Philip Guston: Head and Bottle, 1975." Artforum, February 1995, mentioned in text p. 63 as "The Floor," not illus.
- Fineberg, Jonathan. Art Since 1940: Strategies of Being. New York: Harry N. Abrams, 1995, illus. in b&w fig. 12.49 p. 402 and mentioned in text p. 403
- Picasso, Guston, Miro, de Kooning: In vollkommener Freiheit. Exh. cat. Bremen: Neues Museum Weserberg Bremen, 1996, illus. in b&w p. 83
- Fineberg, Jonathan. Art Since 1940: Strategies of Being. 2nd ed. 1995. Reprint, New York: Harry N. Abrams, 2000, illus. in b&w fig. 12.51 and mentioned in text p. 412
- Storr, Robert. Philip Guston: A Life Spent Painting. London: Laurence King Publishing, 2020, No. 205 illus. in color p. 193 and mentioned in text p. 190, listed as "The Floor"
- Smith, Roberta. "The Philip Guston Hoard: A Boon or Overkill?" New York Times, January 23, 2023. Online, illus. in color and mentioned in text
- Smith, Roberta. "A Gift The Met Might Not Need." New York Times, January 24, 2023, pp. C1, C5, illus. in color and mentioned in text p. C5
