Catalogue Raisonné
P77.023
Oil on canvas
51½ x 79 in.
130.8 x 200.7 cm
Unsigned, undated; inscribed on reverse (section of inscription partially obscured by stretcher bar): PHILIP GUSTON/ "LETTER TO A FRIEND" 1977 (underlined)/ FRIEND./ 51 1/2 x 79 (underlined)/ OIL ON CANVAS
- Provenance
- Private Collection, New York
- Nancy Whyte Fine Arts, Inc., New York
- Exhibitions
- University of Hawaii at Manoa Art Gallery, Honolulu, HI, "Sum of the Parts", August 28, 1994 - September 30, 1994
- Fundacion Bancaja, Valencia, Spain, "Creacion y Figura: Figuracion en el siglo XX", October 14, 1999 - January 09, 2000
- IVAM Institut Valencia d’Art Modern, Valencia, Spain, "Philip Guston One-Shot Painting", December 13, 2001 - March 03, 2002 Travelled to:
- Santa Monica Museum of Art, Santa Monica, CA, "Enigma Variations: Philip Guston and Giorgio de Chirico", September 09, 2006 - November 25, 2006
- Bibliography
- de Barañano, Kosme Maria. Philip Guston: La Raiz del Dibujo. Exh. cat. Bilbao: Sala Rekalde, 1993, illus. in color p. 19 (Kosme de Baranano essay)
- Sum of the Parts. Exh. cat. Honolulu: University of Hawai'i Art Gallery, 1994, illus. in color p. 40
- Radic, Sally. Creacion y Figura, Figuracion en el siglo XX. Exh. cat. Madrid: Fundación Bancaja, 1999, cat. no. 51 illus. in color pp. 168-169
- 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, unnumbered catalog, color plate p. 181
- Miralles, Carolina. "Philip Guston." La Glorieta, Arte, 2001, p. 7, mentioned in text, not illus.
- Folch, Maria Jesús. "Los pensamientos visuales de Philip Guston." Arte Contemporaneo, January 2002, pp. 80–83, illus. pp. 82-83 and mentioned in text p. 82
- Descubrir el Arte. "Philip Guston: De Un Solo Aliento." January 2002, pp. 94-96, mentioned in text p. 96, not illus.
- Melandri, Lisa, and Michael R. Taylor. Enigma Variations: Philip Guston and Giorgio de Chirico. Exh. cat. Santa Monica: Santa Monica Museum of Art, 2006, illus. in color Plate 22 p. 59
- Urfalino, Mathilde. "Les poem-pictures de Philip Guston." octopusnotes, December 2013, illus. in b&w fig. 52 p. 53
