Catalogue Raisonné
P78.028
Oil on canvas
78⅛ x 73¾ in.
198.4 x 187.3 cm
Signed front lower right: P.G.; inscribed on reverse: PHILIP GUSTON/ "TOMB" (underlined) 1978/ 78 1/2 x 74 (underlined)/ OIL ON CANVAS
- Provenance
- The Museum of Modern Art, New York. Acquired through the A. Conger Goodyear and Elizabeth Bliss Parkinson Funds and gift of the artist
- Exhibitions
- David McKee Gallery, New York, NY, "A Tribute to Philip Guston: Paintings and Drawings from 1950 to 1980", October 11, 1980 - November 12, 1980
- Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY, "Philip Guston, Retrospective 1930 - 1979", June 24, 1981 - September 13, 1981
- The Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY, "Reinstallation of the Collection", November 19, 1981 - January 03, 1982
- Whitechapel Gallery, London, England, "Philip Guston: Paintings 1969 - 1980", October 13, 1982 - December 12, 1982 Travelled to:
- The Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY, "Some Recent Acquisitions: Painting and Sculpture Part I", July 13, 1983 - September 27, 1983
- The Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY, "Selections from the Permanent Collection, Painting and Sculpture", May 17, 1984 - October 10, 1984
- The Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY, "Selections from the Permanent Collection, Painting and Sculpture", December 18, 1984 - December 19, 1984
- The Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY, "Selections from the Permanent Collection, Painting and Sculpture", March 13, 1985 - April 1987?
- The Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY, "Reinstallation of the Painting and Sculpture Collection", April 25, 1987 - December 01, 1987
- The Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY, "Philip Guston: Works from the Collection", May 28, 1992 - July 26, 1992
- The Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY, "Selections from the Permanent Collection, Painting and Sculpture", February 16, 1996 - March 13, 1996
- The Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY, "Selections from the Permanent Collection, Painting and Sculpture", March 15, 1996 - May 22, 1996
- The Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY, "Selections from the Permanent Collection, Painting and Sculpture", June 19, 1996 - June 27, 1996
- The Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY, "Selections from the Permanent Collection, Painting and Sculpture", September 30, 1996 - October 22, 1996
- The Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY, "Selections from the Permanent Collection, Painting and Sculpture", June 03, 1997 - September 12, 1997
- The Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY, "To Be Looked At: Painting and Sculpture from the Museum of Modern Art, New York", June 29, 2002 - September 06, 2004
- The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Houston, TX, "The Heroic Century: The Museum of Modern Art Masterpieces, 200 Paintings and Sculptures", September 21, 2003 - January 04, 2004 Travelled to:
- Fondation Louis Vuitton, Paris, France, "Being Modern: MoMA in Paris", October 11, 2017 - March 05, 2018
- Bibliography
- Kachur, Lewis. "Philip Guston." Arts Magazine, January 1981, p. 9, mentioned in text, not illus.
- Ashton, Dore. "Philip Guston: Different Subjects." Flash Art, December 1981–January 1982, pp. 20–25, illus. in color on cover
- Nicholas Serota, ed. Philip Guston: Paintings 1969–1980. Exh. cat. London: Whitechapel Art Gallery, 1982, cat. no. 32, illus. in color p. 43 (unpaginated)
- Larson, Kay. "MoMA Unveils Its Treasures." New York, May 14, 1984, pp. 34–49, mentioned in text p. 48, not illus.
- Storr, Robert. Philip Guston. New York: Abbeville Modern Masters, 1986, illus. in color no. 97 p. 92
- Zaller, Robert. "Philip Guston and the Crisis of the Image." Critical Inquiry 14, no. 1 (1987): pp. 69–94, mentioned in text p. 92, not illus.
- Mayer, Musa. Night Studio: A Memoir of Philip Guston by His Daughter. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1988, mentioned in text p. 223, not illus.
- Mayer, Musa. Night Studio: A Memoir of Philip Guston by His Daughter. 1988. Reprint, New York: Penguin, 1990, mentioned in text p. 223, not illus.
- Mayer, Musa. Night Studio: A Memoir of Philip Guston. 1988. Reprint, London: Thames and Hudson, 1991, mentioned in text p. 223, not illus.
- Philip Guston in the Collection of the Museum of Modern Art. Exh. cat. Essay by Robert Storr. New York: The Museum of Modern Art, 1992, illus. in color p. 25 and discussed pp. 20 and 23
- Kovner, Abba. Scrolls of Testimony. Jerusalem: Bialik Institute, 1993, illus. in b&w p. 87
- Ablow, Joseph. "Ordered Terror: The Art of Philip Guston." Bostonia Magazine, Fall 1994, pp. 21–26, illus. in color p. 24
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Mayer, Musa. Night Studio: A Memoir of Philip Guston. Reprint, Boston: Da Capo Press, 1997.
, mentioned in text p. 223, not illus. - McShine, Kynaston and Anne Umland, eds. To Be Looked At: Painting and Sculpture from the Museum of Modern Art, New York. Exh. cat. New York: Museum of Modern Art, 2002, illus. in color p. 117
- Anfam, David. "Telling Tales: Philip Guston in Retrospect." Artforum International, May 2003, pp. 132–39, 192, mentioned in text p. 192, not illus.
- Feld, Ross. Guston in Time: Remembering Philip Guston. New York: Counterpoint, 2003, mentioned in text p. 59, not illus.
- Elderfield, John, ed. Visions of Modern Art: Painting and Sculpture from the Museum of Modern Art. Exh. cat. New York: The Museum of Modern Art, 2003, illus. in color p. 310 and mentioned in text p. 302
- Feld, Ross. Erinnerungen an Philip Guston Mit dem Briefwechsel zwischen Feld und Guston. Kippenheim-Schmieheim: Verlag Kurt Liebig, 2003, illus. in color p. 65
- Das MoMA in Berlin. Meisterwerke aus dem Museum of Modern Art, New York. Exh. cat. Ostfildern: Hatje Cantz Verlag, 2004, illus. in color pp. 246 and 343
- Bucklow, Christopher. What Is in the Dwat: The Universe of Guston's Final Decade. Grasmere, England: Wordsworth Trust, 2007, Plate 42, illus. in color p. 189 and mentioned in text pp. 58 and 84
- Coolidge, Clark, ed. Philip Guston: Collected Writings, Lectures, and Conversations. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2011, illus. in b&w p. 311, mentioned in text p. 310
- ArtMag by Deutsche Bank. "Let's Talk: Ingrid Pfeiffer & Bernhard Martin on Philip Guston." November 28, 2013–February 25, 2014. Online, mentioned in text, not illus.
- Burnett, Craig. Philip Guston: The Studio. London: Afterall Books, 2014, illus. in color plate 14 (unpaginated) and mentioned in text pp. 67-68
- Mayer, Musa. Night Studio: A Memoir of Philip Guston. 1988. Reprint, Munich: Sieveking Verlag; Zurich: Hauser & Wirth, 2016, illus. no. 111, illus. in color p. 301 and mentioned in text p. 299
- Mayer, Musa. Night Studio: Un ritratto intimo di Philip Guston. Monza: Johan & Levi, 2017, illus. in color fig. 41 (following p. 224) and mentioned in text p. 241
- Storr, Robert. Philip Guston: A Life Spent Painting. London: Laurence King Publishing, 2020, No. 242 illus. in color p. 221 and mentioned in text pp. 154 and 221
- Frieze. "Philip Guston's Vivid Reflections on the Power of Art." April 28, 2022. Online, mentioned in text, not illus.
- Frieze. "Advice to Myself." May 2022, pp. 90-97, illus. in color p. 93 and mentioned in text p. 92
- Feld, Ross. Guston In Time: Remembering Philip Guston. New York: Counterpoint, 2003. Reprint, New York: New York Review of Books, 2022, mentioned in text p. 55, not illus.
- Guston, Philip. I Paint What I Want To See. Penguin Classics, 2022, mentioned in text p. 250, not illus.
- Mayer, Musa. Night Studio: A Memoir of Philip Guston. 1988. Reprint, Zurich: Hauser & Wirth, 2023, illus. no. 111, illus. in color p. 301 and mentioned in text p. 299
- Coolidge, Clark, ed. Philip Guston: Que peindre sinon l'énigme. Translated by Éric Suchère. Strasbourg: L'Atelier Contemporain, 2023, illus. in color no. 135 (unpaginated)
