Catalogue Raisonné
P79.011
Oil on canvas
69 x 74 in.
175.3 x 188.0 cm
Signed front lower left: Philip Guston; inscribed on reverse: PHILIP GUSTON/ "FLAME" 1979 (underlined)/ OIL - 69x74 (underlined)
- Provenance
- Promised gift of Musa Guston Mayer to The Metropolitan Museum of Art
- 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
- Whitechapel Gallery, London, England, "Philip Guston: Paintings 1969 - 1980", October 13, 1982 - December 12, 1982 Travelled to:
- Skidmore College, Schick Art Gallery, Saratoga Springs, NY, "Philip Guston: Early and Late Works", October 15, 1987 - November 15, 1987
- Museum Ludwig, Köln, Germany, "Bilderstreit Widerspruch, Einheit und Fragment in der Kunst seit 1960", April 08, 1989 - June 28, 1989
- Boston University Art Gallery, Boston, MA, "Philip Guston 1975-1980: Private and Public Battles", September 17, 1994 - October 30, 1994
- Neues Museum Weserburg, Bremen, Germany, "Picasso, Guston, Miro, de Kooning: In vollkommener Freiheit, Painting for themselves: Late Works", October 20, 1996 - February 07, 1997
- Kunstmuseum Bonn, Bonn, Germany, "Philip Guston: Gemälde 1947 - 1979", September 02, 1999 - November 01, 1999 Travelled to:
- IVAM Institut Valencia d’Art Modern, Valencia, Spain, "Philip Guston One-Shot Painting", December 13, 2001 - March 03, 2002 Travelled to:
- Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, Fort Worth, TX, "Philip Guston Retrospective", March 30, 2003 - June 08, 2003 Travelled to:
- Kunstmuseum Bonn, Bonn, Germany, "Die Sammlung: Color and Content", December 15, 2010 - January 01, 2011
- Schirn Kunsthalle Frankfurt, Frankfurt, Germany, "Philip Guston - das große Spätwerk", November 06, 2013 - February 02, 2014 Travelled to:
- Gallerie dell'Accademia, Venice, Italy, "Philip Guston and the Poets", May 10, 2017 - September 03, 2017
- Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Boston, MA, "Philip Guston Now", May 01, 2022 - September 11, 2022 Travelled to:
- Bibliography
- Kachur, Lewis. "Philip Guston." Arts Magazine, January 1981, p. 9, illus. in b&w and mentioned in text
- Nicholas Serota, ed. Philip Guston: Paintings 1969–1980. Exh. cat. London: Whitechapel Art Gallery, 1982, cat. no. 35, illus. in color p. 45 (unpaginated)
- Sweet, David. "Philip Guston and Beyond." Artscribe, December 1982, illus. in b&w p. 27
- Storr, Robert. Philip Guston. New York: Abbeville Modern Masters, 1986, illus. in color no. 77 p. 77
- Philip Guston: Early and Late Works. Exh. cat. Saratoga Springs: Schick Art Gallery, Skidmore College, 1987, cat. no. 13-P, illus. in b&w (no page #)
- Bilderstreit: Widerspruch, Einheit und Fragment in der Kunst seit 1960. Exh. cat. Cologne: Museum Ludwig, 1989, cat. no. 242
- McQuaid, Cate. "Battleground: How Philip Guston Fought the War to Create Art." Boston Phoenix, September 23, 1994, section Arts & Entertainment, p. 11, mentioned in text, not illus.
- Unger, Miles. "Philip Guston: Wrestling with the Past." Art New England, December 1994–January 1995, pp. 32–34, 71, mentioned in text p. 71, not illus.
- Sichel, Kim, and Mary Drach McInnes. Philip Guston 1975–1980: Private and Public Battles. Exh. cat. Seattle: University of Washington Press, 1994, Plate 10, illus. in color p. 61
- St. Galler Tagblatt (St. Gallen, CH). "Ein Feuer in der Finsternis." November 30, 1996, illus.
- Picasso, Guston, Miro, de Kooning: In vollkommener Freiheit. Exh. cat. Bremen: Neues Museum Weserberg Bremen, 1996, cat. no. 8, illus. in color p. 112
- Kliemann, Thomas. "Ein Mandarin will Tölpel sein." General-Anzeiger (Bonn), September 2, 1999, mentioned in text, not illus.
- Vielhaber, Christiane. "Bonn: Philip Guston." Kunstzeitung, October 1999, mentioned in text, not illus.
- Schreier, Christoph, Michael Auping, and Martin Hentschel. Philip Guston: Gemalde 1947–1979. Exh. cat. Ostfildern: Hatje Cantz Verlag, 1999, unnumbered catalog, illus. in color p. 127
- Halkes, Petra. "Figuring Out Abstraction." Border Crossings, August 2000, pp. 75–77, mentioned in text p. 75, not illus.
- Philip Guston Tableaux / Paintings 1947 - 1979. Exh. cat. Ostfildern: Hatje Cantz Publishers, 2000, illus. in color p. 127 and mentioned in text p. 24
- Ottinger, Didier, and Philip Roth. Philip Guston: Peintures 1947–1979. Exh. cat. Paris: Centre Georges Pompidou, 2000, unnumbered catalog, illus. in color p. 80
- Philip Guston: One-Shot-Paintings/De Un Solo Aliento. Exh. cat. Essays by Kosme de Barañano, María Jesús Folch, Fernando Gomez Aguilera, and Manuel Padorno. Valencia: IVAM, 2001. In association with Ediciones Aldeasa, unnumbered catalog, color plate p. 161
- Anfam, David. "Telling Tales: Philip Guston in Retrospect." Artforum International, May 2003, pp. 132–39, 192, detail illus. in color p. 138 and mentioned in text p. 192
- Auping, Michael. Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, Philip Guston Retrospective. Exh. cat. London: Thames & Hudson, 2003, illus. in color Plate 128, unpaginated
- El fuego bajo las ceniza (de Picasso a Basquiat)/ Fire Under the Ashes (from Picasso to Basquiat). Exh. cat. Valencia: IVAM Institut Valencia d'Art Modern, 2005, illus. in color on front cover and in color on p. 25
- Anfam, David. "Philip Guston: Rome and Washington." Burlington Magazine, September 2010, pp. 636-37, mentioned in text p. 636, not illus.
- Miller, Peter Benson, ed. Philip Guston Roma. Exh. cat. Ostfildern: Hatje Cantz Verlag, 2010, mentioned in text p. 34 (Peter Benson Miller essay), not illus.
- Pfeiffer, Ingrid, and Max Hollein, eds. Philip Guston Das Grosse Spatwerk/Late Works. Exh. cat. Cologne: Strzeleckibooks, 2013, illus. in color p. 68
- 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 p. 92, not illus., listed as "The Flame"
- Jakubowski, Dan. "Philip Guston and the Poets." Artforum, July 5, 2017. Online, mentioned in text, not illus.
- Philip Guston & The Poets. Exh. cat. Essay by Kosme de Barañano. Hauser & Wirth, 2017, illus. in color p. 47 and mentioned in text p. 56
- Cooper, Harry, Mark Godfrey, Alison de Lima Greene, and Kate Nesin. Philip Guston Now. Exh. cat. Washington D.C.: National Gallery of Art, 2020, illus. in color Plate 169 p. 166 and mentioned in text pp. 125 and 203
- Storr, Robert. Philip Guston: A Life Spent Painting. London: Laurence King Publishing, 2020, No. 233 illus. in color p. 216 and mentioned in text p. 209
- Saccocia, Susan. "Spotlight Review: Philip Guston Now." Art New England, July/August 2022. Print, mentioned in text, not illus.
- Pogrebin, Robin. "More Than 200 Philip Guston Works Are Headed to the Met." New York Times, December 14, 2022. Online, illus. in color and mentioned in text
- Pogrebin, Robin. "Met to Receive Trove Of Philip Guston's Art." New York Times, December 15, 2022, pp. C1, C6, mentioned in text p. C6, not illus.
- Chow, Vivienne. "The Met Now Boasts the World's Largest Collection of Philip Guston's Work, Thanks to a 220-Piece Gift by the Artist's Daughter." artnet News, December 15, 2022. Online, mentioned in text, not illus.
- Dziemianowicz, Joe. "220 Philip Guston Artworks Have a New Home at The Met." Penta (New York), December 16, 2022. Online, illus. in color and mentioned in text
- Schwabsky, Barry. "Philip Guston Now." Brooklyn Rail, July/August 2023. Online, illus. in color as part of an installation photo
- Tate Etc. "Transformations on a Canvas." Issue 59, Autumn 2023, pp. 72-83, mentioned in text p. 80, not illus.
