Catalogue Raisonné

P78.059

The Desire, 1978
Oil on canvas
80 x 105 in.
203.2 x 266.7 cm
Unsigned, undated; inscribed on reverse: PHILIP GUSTON/ "THE DESIRE" (underlined) 1978/ 80 x 105 (underlined)/ OIL ON CANVAS 
Provenance
Private Collection
Exhibitions
David McKee Gallery, New York, NY, "Philip Guston - Paintings", October 08, 1983 - November 05, 1983 
McKee Gallery, New York, NY, "Group Show", January 04, 2001 - March 10, 2001
Bibliography
Westfall, Stephen. "Arts Reviews: Philip Guston." Arts, February 1984, p. 36, mentioned in text, not illus.
Mayer, Musa. Night Studio: A Memoir of Philip Guston by His Daughter. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1988, mentioned in text p. 191, not illus.
Mayer, Musa. Night Studio: A Memoir of Philip Guston by His Daughter. 1988. Reprint, New York: Penguin, 1990, mentioned in text p. 191, not illus.
Mayer, Musa. Night Studio: A Memoir of Philip Guston. 1988. Reprint, London: Thames and Hudson, 1991, mentioned in text p. 191, not illus.
Mayer, Musa. Night Studio: A Memoir of Philip Guston. Reprint, Boston: Da Capo Press, 1997.
, mentioned in text p. 191, not illus.
Mayer, Musa. Night Studio: A Memoir of Philip Guston. 1988. Reprint, Munich: Sieveking Verlag; Zurich: Hauser & Wirth, 2016, illus. no. 101, illus. in color p. 259 and mentioned in text p. 260
Maneker, Marion. "Bradford, Bourgeois & Nauman at Hauser + Wirth ABMB." Art Market Monitor, November 30, 2017. Online, illus. in color
Hauser & Wirth at Art Basel Miami Beach. Zurich: Hauser & Wirth, 2017, illus. in color (unpaginated)
Mayer, Musa. Night Studio: Un ritratto intimo di Philip Guston. Monza: Johan & Levi, 2017, illus. in color fig. 39 (following p. 224) and mentioned in text p. 212
Storr, Robert. Philip Guston: A Life Spent Painting. London: Laurence King Publishing, 2020, No. 230 illus. in color p. 214
Mayer, Musa. Night Studio: A Memoir of Philip Guston. 1988. Reprint, Zurich: Hauser & Wirth, 2023, illus. no. 101, illus. in color p. 259 and mentioned in text p. 260
Rabb, Maxwell. "A $9 million Willem de Kooning painting leads early sales at Art Basel Hong Kong." Artsy, March 26, 2024. Online, illus. in color as part of an installation photo and mentioned in text