Catalogue Raisonné

P52.003

The Bell, 1952
Oil on canvas
46 x 40 in.
116.8 x 101.6 cm
Signed front lower left: P. Guston; inscribed on reverse: PHILIP GUSTON/ N.Y.C./"THE BELL" 1952/40 x 46 1/4
Provenance
Private Collection
Private Collection
Mr. and Mrs. Fred Neisner, Rochester, NY
Exhibitions
Sidney Janis Gallery, New York, NY, "Recent Paintings Philip Guston", February 06, 1956 - March 03, 1956 
Association of Israel Museums, , "18 American Artists", 1959
Memorial Art Gallery, Rochester, NY, "19th and 20th Century Art in Rochester", March 06, 1959 - March 29, 1959
Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, NY, "Philip Guston", May 03, 1962 - July 01, 1962  Travelled to:
Acquavella Galleries, Inc., New York, NY, "XIX & XX Century Master Paintings", May 17, 1983 - June 18, 1983
Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, Fort Worth, TX, "Philip Guston Retrospective", March 30, 2003 - June 08, 2003  Travelled to:
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., "Philip Guston Now", March 02, 2023 - August 27, 2023 
Bibliography
Walrath, Jean. "Noted Painters in Gallery Show." Rochester Democrat and Chronicle, March 15, 1959, p. 10B, mentioned in text, not illus.
18 American Artists. Exh. cat. Jerusalem: Central Press, 1959., cat. no. 9, illus. in b&w
Philip Guston. Exh. cat. New York: The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, 1962, cat. no. 17, not illus., Collection Mr. and Mrs. Fred Neisner, Rochester, NY
Nordland, Gerald. "Review at Mid-Life." Frontier, July 1963, pp. 23–25, mentioned in text p. 24, not illus.
XIX and XX Century Master Paintings. Exh. cat. New York: Acquavella Galleries, 1983, cat. no. 20, illus. in color p. 43
Greenhalgh, Paul, ed. The Persistence of Craft: The Applied Arts Today. London: A&C Black, 2002, illus. in color p. 22
Auping, Michael. Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, Philip Guston Retrospective. Exh. cat. London: Thames & Hudson, 2003, illus. in color Plate 29, unpaginated (but would be p. 127)
Hohmeyer, Boris. "Die Entdeckung der Wirklichkeit." Art: Das Kunstmagazin March 2007, pp. 26–35, mentioned in text p. 34, not illus.
Coolidge, Clark, ed. Philip Guston: Collected Writings, Lectures, and Conversations. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2011, mentioned in text p. 217, not illus.
Sylvester, David. Ein Gespräch mit Philip Guston. NichtSoKleineBibliothek 8. Bern: Piet Meyer Verlag, 2013, illus. in color p. 30, illus. no. 8
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. 91, not illus.
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 35 p. 56
Pritchard, Claudia. "Philip Guston and the art of fear and loathing." The New European, November 1, 2023. Online, mentioned in text, not illus.
Coolidge, Clark, ed. Philip Guston: Que peindre sinon l'énigme. Translated by Éric Suchère. Strasbourg: L'Atelier Contemporain, 2023, mentioned in text p. 35, not illus.