Catalogue Raisonné

P78.030

Poised, 1978
Oil on canvas
68 x 81 in.
172.7 x 205.7 cm
Signed front lower left: Philip Guston
Provenance
Private Collection
Auction: Christie's, New York, Rockefeller Plaza, Post-War & Contemporary Art Evening Sale, November 12, 2014, Lot 3
Marvin and Florence Gerstin
Exhibitions
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA, "Philip Guston, Retrospective 1930 - 1979", May 15, 1980 - June 29, 1980  Travelled to:
Stephen Mazoh & Co., Inc., New York, NY, "Twentieth Century Works of Art", Spring 1985
Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond, VA, "Philip Guston: Paintings of the '70s", October 08, 1994 - February 05, 1995 
Bibliography
Philip Guston. Exh. cat. New York: George Braziller, 1980, cat. no. 87, illus. in color plate 76 p. 118
Clark, John. "Philip Guston and Metaphysical Painting." Artscribe, August 1981, pp. 22–25, mentioned in text p. 25, not illus.
Twentieth Century Works of Art. Exh. cat. New York: Stephen Mazoh & Co, Inc., 1985, illus. in color p. 4
Bullard, CeCe. "A Painter's Anguish and Anxiety." Richmond Times-Dispatch, October 26, 1994, section Art & Travel, p. D-3, mentioned in text, not illus.
Zaller, Robert. "The Abandoned Studio: Philip Guston's Gnostic Testament." Boulevard 20, no. 2-3 (2005): pp. 100–18, mentioned in text p. 110, not illus.