Catalogue Raisonné

P78.056

The Door, 1978
Oil on canvas
68 x 109 in.
172.7 x 276.9 cm
Unsigned, undated
Provenance
Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, purchased with the generous support of the Vereniging Rembrandt and Mrs. Musa Guston, Woodstock, NY, 1983
Exhibitions
Castello di Rivoli, Museo d'Arte Contemporanea, Rivoli, Italy, "L'Orizzonte. Da Chagall a Picasso da Pollock a Cragg", December 18, 1994 - March 1995
Utsunomiya Museum of Art, Utsunomiya City, Tochigi, Japan, "Art in the 20th Century: From Cezanne and Van Gogh to the Present. Collection from the Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam", March 23, 1997 - May 18, 1997 Travelled to:
City Gallery Wellington, Wellington, New Zealand, "Art in the 20th Century: Modern Masterpieces from the Collection of the Stedelijk Museum", April 04, 1998 - July 19, 1998
Bibliography
A New Spirit in Painting. Exh. cat. London: Royal Academy of Arts, 1981, cat. no. 43, illus. in color (no page #), listed as "Door"
Philip Guston. Schilderijen 1969–1980. Exh. cat. Amsterdam: Stedelijk Museum, 1983, p. 7
Joosten, Joop M., ed. 20 jaar verzamelen: aanwinsten Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, 1963–1984, schilder en beeldhouwkunst/ 20 Years of Art Collecting: Acquisitions Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, 1963–1984, Painting and Sculpture. Amsterdam: Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam, 1984, cat. no. 347
"Painting, Smoking, Eating, 1973 / The Door, 1978, Philip Guston, 1913–1980." In Verslag over 1984 Vereniging Rembrandt, Nationaal Fonds Kunstbehoud. Amsterdam: Vereniging Rembrandt, 1985, p. 31
Kovner, Abba. Scrolls of Testimony. Jerusalem: Bialik Institute, 1993, illus. in b&w
Martis, Adi. "Philip Guston: de lotgevallen van een zonderling schilder." Kunstschrift, 1994, pp. 24-28.
L'Orizzonte: da Chagall a Picasso, da Pollock a Cragg. Exh. cat. Rivoli: Castello di Rivoli, Museo d'Arte Contemporanea, 1994, p. 146
Terakado, Rintaro, ed., et al. Art in the 20th Century. From Cezanne and Van Gogh to the Present. Collection from the Stedelijk Museum. Exh. cat. Amsterdam: Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam, 1997, cat. no. 40
Art in the 20th Century: Modern Masterpieces from the Collection of the Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam. Exh. cat. Wellington: City Gallery, 1998.
Lewison, Jeremy. "Pollock, De Kooning, Guston: A European Heritage." In Stedelijk Collection Reflections: Reflections on the Collection of the Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam. Rotterdam: Nai010 Publishers, 2012, illus. in color p. 344
de Man, Hanneke, Frederique Huygen, Angela Bartholomew, Timo de Rijk, Karolien Buurman, and Elvie Casteleign. Stedelijk collectie highlights: 150 kunstenaars uit de collectie van het Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam/Stedelijk Collection Highlights: 150 Artists from the Collection of the Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam. Utigivers: Nai010 Uitgevers/Publishers, 2012.
Merx, Karin. Een feestelijke optocht van hoogtepunten: La Grande Parade als evaluatie van het museumbeleid van Edy de Wilde in het Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam. Delft: Eburon, 2013, pp. 44, 94
Miller, Peter Benson, ed. Go Figure! New Perspectives on Guston. New York: American Academy in Rome; New York Review of Books, 2014, mentioned in text as "Door", not illus.
de Luca, Théo. A New Spirit in Painting, 1981: On Being an Antimodern. London: Walther Konig Verlag, 2020, illus. no. 10, illus. in color p. 80