Catalogue Raisonné

P79.013

Painter at Night, 1979
Oil on canvas
68½ x 80½ in.
174.0 x 204.5 cm
Unsigned, undated
Provenance
Private Collection
Private Collection
Auction: Christie's, New York, Rockefeller Center, Post-War and Contemporary Art Evening Sale, May 17, 2017, Lot 11 B
Collection of the Estates of Emily and Jerry Spiegel
Collection Emily and Jerry Spiegel, New York
Exhibitions
XVI Bienal Internacional de Sao Paulo, Sao Paulo, Brazil, "Philip Guston, Sus Ultimos Años", October 16, 1981 - December 20, 1981  Travelled to:
National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, Australia, "Philip Guston: The Late Works", August 17, 1984 - September 16, 1984  Travelled to:
Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia, Madrid, Spain, "Philip Guston: Retrospectiva de Pintura", March 01, 1989 - May 08, 1989  Travelled to:
Bibliography
Philip Guston: Sus Ultimos Anos. Exh. cat. San Francisco: San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, 1981, cat. no. 16, illus. in color p. 18
Maloon, Terence. "'Bad' Paintings the Board Chairman Would Never Hang in His Office." Sydney Morning Herald, November 12, 1984, mentioned in text, not illus.
Philip Guston: The Late Works. Exh. cat. Melbourne: The National Gallery of Victoria, 1984, cat. no. 35, illus. in color p. 50 and mentioned in text and illus. in b&w p. 20, listed as "Painter at Night" in checklist but "The Painter at Night" with b&w illus. and mention in text.
Storr, Robert. Philip Guston. New York: Abbeville Modern Masters, 1986, illus. in color no. 104 pp. 104-105
Gallego, Julian. "El gusto de Guston." ABC (Madrid), March 2, 1989, mentioned in text, not illus.
Ottevanger, Alied. "Philip Guston." Metropolis M, April–May 1989, pp. 44–45, mentioned in text p. 45, not illus.
Philip Guston: Retrospectiva de Pintura. Exh. cat. Essays by Mark Rosenthal, Robert Storr, Carrie Rickey, Francisco Calvo Serraller, and Dore Ashton. Madrid: Ministerio de Cultura, Dirección General de Bellas Artes y Archivos, Centro Nacional de Exposiciones, 1989, cat. no. 66, illus. in color p. 142
Oxlade, Roy. "Father Was Brilliant." Modern Painters, Summer 1991, pp. 101-102, illus. in b&w and mentioned in text p. 102
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Picasso, Guston, Miro, de Kooning: In vollkommener Freiheit. Exh. cat. Bremen: Neues Museum Weserberg Bremen, 1996, mentioned in text p. 102, not illus.
Tully, Judd. "Christie's Super-charged Night." Blouin Artinfo, May 18, 2017. Online, mentioned in text, not illus.
Mcllhagga, Samuel. "Philip Guston's Controversial Embrace of Figuration Still Shapes His Market." Artsy, November 3, 2020. Online, mentioned in text, not illus.
Rea, Naomi. "Philip Guston's Market Has Never Reached the Heights of His Ab-Ex Contemporaries. But This Year's Controversy May Change That." artnet News, December 22, 2020. Online, mentioned in text, not illus.
Mayer, Musa. Philip Guston. London: Laurence King Publishing, 2020, illus. in color p. 108 and mentioned in text p. 109
Storr, Robert. Philip Guston: A Life Spent Painting. London: Laurence King Publishing, 2020, No. 235 illus. in color p. 218 and mentioned in text pp. 13 and 180
Zuccala, Luca. "'Dipingere è più un impadronirsi che un rappresentare': Philip Guston totale da Hauser & Wirth St. Moritz. Intervista." ArtsLife (Milan), January 1, 2021. Online, mentioned in text, not illus.
Kakar, Arun. "A $20 million Philip Guston painting leads the reported sales from Art Basel in Miami Beach's VIP day." Artsy, December 7, 2023. Online, mentioned in text, not illus.
Freeman, Nate. "Jeff Bezos, Leonardo DiCaprio, and More Collabos Than You Can Shake a Stick At: Welcome to Art Basel Miami Beach 2023." Vanity Fair, December 8, 2023. Online, illus. in color and mentioned in text