Catalogue Raisonné
D3801
Conte crayon on paper
16¼ x 13 in.
41.3 x 33.0 cm
Signed and dated front lower left: Philip Guston 1938
- Provenance
- Promised gift of Musa Guston Mayer to The Metropolitan Museum of Art
- Exhibitions
- The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY, "Philip Guston Drawings 1938-1972", July 11, 1973 - September 04, 1973
- San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA, "Philip Guston, Retrospective 1930 - 1979", May 15, 1980 - June 29, 1980 Travelled to:
- The Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY, "The Drawings of Philip Guston", September 07, 1988 - November 01, 1988 Travelled to:
- Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, Fort Worth, TX, "Philip Guston Retrospective", March 30, 2003 - June 08, 2003 Travelled to:
- Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Boston, MA, "Philip Guston Now", May 01, 2022 - September 11, 2022 Travelled to:
- Bibliography
- Philip Guston. Exh. cat. New York: George Braziller, 1980, cat. no. 4, illus. in b&w plate 4 p. 51
- Greenwich Time. "Whitney's Guston Exhibit Spans Half-Century Career." June 27, 1981, mentioned in text as "Work and Play (1940)", not illus.
- Dabrowski, Magdalena. The Drawings of Philip Guston. Exh. cat. New York: The Museum of Modern Art, 1988, cat. no. 3, illus. in color p. 52, listed as "Boys Fighting" and mentioned in text pp. 16 and 17
- Dabrowski, Magdalena. Dibuixos Philip Guston. Exh. cat. Barcelona: Fundacio Caixa de Pensions, 1989, cat. no. 3 illus. in color p. 72, listed as "Boys Fighting"
- Philip Guston, Opere Su Carta 1933–1980. Exh. cat. Milan: Electa, 1989, cat. no. 2, illus. in b&w p. 59
- Auping, Michael. Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, Philip Guston Retrospective. Exh. cat. London: Thames & Hudson, 2003, illus. in color, Plate 5, unpaginated (but would be p. 102) and mentioned in essay p. 23
- 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 12 p. 24 and mentioned in text pp. 184 and 225
- Reynolds, Pamela. "After postponement, Philip Guston's work finally arrives at the MFA." WBUR, April 28, 2022. Online, mentioned in text, not illus.
- Bowen, Jared. 'Philip Guston Now' portrays art of controversial and confrontational painter. Washington D.C.: PBS News Hour, May 12, 2022. Video, illus. in color as part of an installation photo
- Smith, Roberta. "The Philip Guston Hoard: A Boon or Overkill?" New York Times, January 23, 2023. Online, illus. in color
- Smith, Roberta. "A Gift The Met Might Not Need." New York Times, January 24, 2023, pp. C1, C5, illus. in color p. C5
- Coolidge, Clark, ed. Philip Guston: Que peindre sinon l'énigme. Translated by Éric Suchère. Strasbourg: L'Atelier Contemporain, 2023, illus. in color no. 20 (unpaginated)
