Catalogue Raisonné

P79.038

East Coker - T.S.E, 1979
Oil on canvas
42 x 48 in.
106.7 x 121.9 cm
Signed front lower right: Philip Guston; inscribed on reverse: PHILIP GUSTON/ "EAST COKER - T.S.E" [underlined]/ OIL - 42 x 48 [underlined]
Provenance
The Museum of Modern Art, New York. Gift of Musa Guston
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:
Greenville County Museum of Art, Greenville, SC, "Andrew Wyeth: A Trojan Horse Modernist", March 09, 1984 - April 15, 1984
National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, Australia, "Philip Guston: The Late Works", August 17, 1984 - September 16, 1984  Travelled to:
Musee National d'Art Moderne, Centre Pompidou, Paris, France, "L'Epoque, La Mode, La Morale, La Passion", May 21, 1987 - August 17, 1987
Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia, Madrid, Spain, "Philip Guston: Retrospectiva de Pintura", March 01, 1989 - May 08, 1989  Travelled to:
The Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY, "Philip Guston: Works from the Collection", May 28, 1992 - July 26, 1992 
Palazzo Grassi, Venice, Italy, "Identity and Alterity: Figures of the body 1895 - 1995 'Identita e Alterita: Una Breve Storia de Corpo Umano'", June 11, 1995 - October 15, 1995
The Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY, "Modern Art despite Modernism", March 16, 2000 - July 26, 2000
Gallerie dell'Accademia, Venice, Italy, "Philip Guston and the Poets", May 10, 2017 - September 03, 2017 
Turner Contemporary, Margate, Kent, England, "Journeys with 'The Waste Land'", February 03, 2018 - May 07, 2018
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Note
refers to the poem East Coker, one of T.S. Eliot's 4 Quartets