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P53.002

Attar, 1953
Oil on canvas
48¼ x 46 in.
122.6 x 116.8 cm
Signed front lower right: P.G.
Provenance
Collection Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, Gift of Judy and Kenneth Dayton, 2022
Private Collection
Collection Gerald Elliott, Chicago
Collection Morton Feldman, New York
Exhibitions
Sidney Janis Gallery, New York, NY, "Recent Paintings Philip Guston", February 06, 1956 - March 03, 1956 
Museu de Arte Moderna de São Paulo, Sao Paulo, Brazil, "IV Bienal do Museu de Arte Moderna, de São Paulo", September 22, 1957 - December 31, 1957
Signa Gallery, East Hampton, NY, "The Artists' Vision: 1948-1958", May 30, 1958 - July 19, 1958
Museu de Arte Moderna de São Paulo, Sao Paulo, Brazil, "V Bienal, Estados Unidos, 1959", September 21, 1959 - December 31, 1959
US Pavilion at La Biennale di Venezia, Venice , Italy, "Quattro Artisti Americani: Guston, Hofmann, Kline, Roszak, XXX Biennale Venezia", June 18, 1960 - October 16, 1960
Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, NY, "Philip Guston", May 03, 1962 - July 01, 1962  Travelled to:
Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, Netherlands, "Philip Guston", September 20, 1962 - October 15, 1962
Whitechapel Gallery, London, England, "Philip Guston", January 16, 1963 - February 17, 1963
Palais des Beaux-Arts, Brussels, Belgium, "Philip Guston", March 01, 1963 - March 24, 1963
Los Angeles County Museum, Los Angeles, CA, "Philip Guston", May 22, 1963 - June 30, 1963
Rose Art Museum, Brandeis University, Waltham, MA, "Philip Guston, A Selective Retrospective Exhibition: 1945-1965", February 27, 1966 - March 27, 1966 
National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan, "Two Decades of American Painting", October 15, 1966 - November 27, 1966 Travelled to:
National Museum of Modern Art, Kyoto, Kyoto, Japan, "Two Decades of American Painting", December 10, 1966 - January 22, 1967
Lalit Kala Gallery, New Delhi, India, "Two Decades of American Painting", March 28, 1967 - April 16, 1967
National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, Australia, "Two Decades of American Painting", June 06, 1967 - July 09, 1967
Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia, "Two Decades of American Painting", July 17, 1967 - August 13, 1967
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY, "New York Painting and Sculpture 1940-1970", October 18, 1969 - February 01, 1970
David and Alfred Smart Gallery, Chicago, IL, "Abstract Expressionism: A Tribute to Harold Rosenberg", October 11, 1979 - November 25, 1979
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA, "Philip Guston, Retrospective 1930 - 1979", May 15, 1980 - June 29, 1980  Travelled to:
Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., "Philip Guston, Retrospective 1930 - 1979", July 20, 1980 - September 09, 1980
Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, Chicago, IL, "Philip Guston, Retrospective 1930 - 1979", November 12, 1980 - January 11, 1981
Denver Art Museum, Denver, CO, "Philip Guston, Retrospective 1930 - 1979", February 25, 1981 - April 26, 1981
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY, "Philip Guston, Retrospective 1930 - 1979", June 24, 1981 - September 13, 1981
Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, NY, "The New York School: Four Decades, Museum Collection and Loans", July 01, 1982 - August 29, 1982
Terra Museum of American Art, Evanston, IL, "Two Hundred Years of American Painting from Private Chicago Collections", June 25, 1983 - September 02, 1983
Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MN, "75 Gifts for 75 Years", February 05, 2015 - July 26, 2015
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Philip Guston: The Late Works. Exh. cat. Melbourne: The National Gallery of Victoria, 1984, mentioned in text p. 12, not illus.
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Corbett, William. "Daddy Dearest." Letters, New Criterion, November 1988, p. 78, mentioned in text, not illus.
Mayer, Musa. Night Studio: A Memoir of Philip Guston by His Daughter. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1988, mentioned in text p. 63, not illus.
Serraller, F. Calvo. "Abierta en Madrid una retrospectiva de Guston: En Centro Reina Sofia expone 70 obras del artista que paso del expresionismo abstracto a la figuracion." El País (Madrid), March 2, 1989, mentioned in text, not illus.
Ruiz de Eguino, Iñaki Moreno. "La primera retrospectiva europea de Philip Guston, en Madrid." Diario Vasco (San Sebastián), March 11, 1989, mentioned in text, not illus.
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Affinities and Institutions: The Gerald S. Elliot Collection of Contemporary Art. Exh. cat. London: Thames and Hudson; Chicago: Art Institute of Chicago, 1990, mentioned in text p. 13, not illus.
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Mayer, Musa. Night Studio: A Memoir of Philip Guston. 1988. Reprint, London: Thames and Hudson, 1991, mentioned in text p. 63, not illus.
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, mentioned in text p. 63, not illus.
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Slifkin, Robert. Out of Time: Philip Guston and the Refiguration of Postwar American Art. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2013, illus. in color plate 2
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Mayer, Musa. Night Studio: Un ritratto intimo di Philip Guston. Monza: Johan & Levi, 2017, mentioned in text p. 79, not illus.
Philip Guston & The Poets. Exh. cat. Essay by Kosme de Barañano. Hauser & Wirth, 2017, illus. in color p. 31
Mayer, Musa. Resilience: Philip Guston in 1971. Exh. cat. Zurich: Hauser & Wirth Publishers, 2019, illus. in color p. 24
Miller, Peter Benson. Encounters I. Exh. cat. Rome: American Academy in Rome, 2019, mentioned in text p. 6, 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, mentioned in text p. 195, not illus.
Storr, Robert. Philip Guston: A Life Spent Painting. London: Laurence King Publishing, 2020, No. 42 illus. in color p. 56 and mentioned in text pp. 52, 103 and illus. in color as part of installation photo p. 336
Mayer, Musa. Philip Guston. London: Laurence King Publishing, 2020, illus. in color p. 36 and mentioned in text p. 35
Dohoney, Ryan. Morton Feldman: Friendship and Mourning in the New York Avant-Garde. New York: Bloomsbury Academic, 2022, illus. in b&w Fig. 4.3 p. 150 and mentioned in text pp. 111, 151 and 163
Mayer, Musa. Night Studio: A Memoir of Philip Guston. 1988. Reprint, Zurich: Hauser & Wirth, 2023, mentioned in text p. 94, not illus.