Catalogue Raisonné

P77.019

Pyramid and Shoe, 1977
Oil on canvas
68 x 116 in.
172.7 x 294.6 cm
Signed front lower right: Philip Guston
Provenance
Private Collection, New York
Exhibitions
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:
Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia, Madrid, Spain, "Philip Guston: Retrospectiva de Pintura", March 01, 1989 - May 08, 1989  Travelled to:
Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, Fort Worth, TX, "Philip Guston Retrospective", March 30, 2003 - June 08, 2003  Travelled to:
Bibliography
Morch, Al. "Impressive Guston Gamut." San Francisco Examiner, May 19, 1980, section The Arts, p. 30, mentioned in text, not illus.
Philip Guston. Exh. cat. New York: George Braziller, 1980, cat. no. 80, illus. in color plate 69 p. 111
Schjeldahl, Peter. "Self-Abuse on Parade." Village Voice, July 15–21, 1981, section Art, p. 72, illus. as part of an installation photo
Clark, John. "Philip Guston and Metaphysical Painting." Artscribe, August 1981, pp. 22–25, illus. in b&w p. 23
Spike, John T. "New York. Whitney Museum of American Art." Burlington Magazine 123, no. 945 (1981): pp. 770–73, illus. pg. 767
Nicholas Serota, ed. Philip Guston: Paintings 1969–1980. Exh. cat. London: Whitechapel Art Gallery, 1982, cat. no. 24, illus. in color on cover and in b&w p. 66
Ammann, Jean-Christophe. "De L'Oeuvre Tardive de Philip Guston." Artistes, 1983, pp. 83–85, illus. in b&w p. 85 and mentioned in text pp. 84 and 85
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Serraller, F. Calvo. "Abierta en Madrid una retrospectiva de Guston: En Centro Reina Sofia expone 70 obras del artista que paso del expresionismo abstracto a la figuracion." El País (Madrid), March 2, 1989, mentioned in text, not illus.
Gallego, Julian. "El gusto de Guston." ABC (Madrid), March 2, 1989, mentioned in text, not illus.
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Degener, Patricia. "Retrospective of Philip Guston's Paintings Shows 'A Life Lived.'" St. Louis Post-Dispatch, September 10, 1989, p. 4C, mentioned in text, not illus.
Philip Guston: Retrospectiva de Pintura. Exh. cat. Essays by Mark Rosenthal, Robert Storr, Carrie Rickey, Francisco Calvo Serraller, and Dore Ashton. Madrid: Ministerio de Cultura, Dirección General de Bellas Artes y Archivos, Centro Nacional de Exposiciones, 1989, cat. no. 57, illus. in color p. 133 and illus. in b&w p. 88 (Francisco Calvo Serraller essay)
Corbett, William. Philip Guston's Late Work: A Memoir. Boston: Zoland Books, 1994, illus. in b&w (unpaginated) and mentioned in text p. 80
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. 76
Baker, Kenneth. "Shock of the New: Embracing Guston's Late Work at SFMOMA." San Francisco Chronicle, August 10, 2003, section Datebook, pp. 9–10, illus. in b&w p. 9 as part of an installation photo and mentioned in text p. 10
Corbett, William. "Philip Guston in Retrospect." Brooklyn Rail, November 2003, p. 15, mentioned in text, not illus.
Auping, Michael. Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, Philip Guston Retrospective. Exh. cat. London: Thames & Hudson, 2003, illus. in color Plate 114, unpaginated and mentioned in text p. 58 (Andrew Graham-Dixon essay), mentioned in text p. 73 (Bill Berkson essay)
Lubbock, Tom. "Driven from abstraction." Independent (London), January 27, 2004, pp. 54-55, mentioned in text p. 55, not illus.
Heller, Michael. "Philip Guston." Chicago Review 49, no. 3–4 (2004), pp. 402-405, mentioned in text pp. 403 and 404, not illus.
Zaller, Robert. "The Abandoned Studio: Philip Guston's Gnostic Testament." Boulevard 20, no. 2-3 (2005): pp. 100–18, illus. in b&w p. 120 and mentioned in text p. 109
Bucklow, Christopher. What Is in the Dwat: The Universe of Guston's Final Decade. Grasmere, England: Wordsworth Trust, 2007, detail illus. in color pp. 46-47 and mentioned in text pp. 57, 61, 97, 128 and 145
Botelho, Manuel. Guston em contexto: até ao regresso da figura. Lisbon: Livros Vendaval, 2007, illus. in color p. 151
Berkson, Bill. Sudden Address: Selected Lectures 1981–2006. Austin: Cuneiform, 2007. Reprint, Austin: Cuneiform, 2010, mentioned in text p. 32, not illus.
Sylvester, David. Ein Gespräch mit Philip Guston. NichtSoKleineBibliothek 8. Bern: Piet Meyer Verlag, 2013, illus. in color p. 57, illus. no. 16
Miller, Peter Benson, ed. Go Figure! New Perspectives on Guston. New York: American Academy in Rome; New York Review of Books, 2014, illus. in color Fig. 10 p. 38. Also mentioned in text pp. 37-38 and 80.
Wilson, Rachael M. "Singular Collaborations: Figures of Disjunction in Verbal-Visual Poetics." PhD diss., New York University, 2016, mentioned in text p. 187, 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. 1 p. 21
Yau, John. "The Parallel Worlds of Philip Guston and Saul Steinberg." Hyperallergic, December 16, 2018. Online, mentioned in text, not illus.
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Wolf, Bryan J. "Between the Lines: Philip Guston, the Holocaust, and 'Bad Painting.'" American Art, Spring 2020, pp. 50-85, fig. 4 illus. in color p. 53 and mentioned in text pp. 51, 64 and 81
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