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P53.001

Zone, 1953
Oil on canvas
46 x 48⅛ in.
116.8 x 122.2 cm
Signed front lower right: P. Guston
Provenance
Private Collection, New York
Auction: Christie's, New York, Post-War and Contemporary Art Evening Sale, November 8, 2005, Lot 35
Edward R. Broida
Mr. and Mrs. Ben Heller, New York
Exhibitions
Egan Gallery, New York, NY, "Philip Guston Paintings and Drawings", January 12, 1953 - February 07, 1953 
Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, NY, "Younger American Painters", May 12, 1954 - July 25, 1954
Sidney Janis Gallery, New York, NY, "Recent Paintings Philip Guston", February 06, 1956 - March 03, 1956 
Mead Art Museum, Amherst, MA, "The 1913 Armory Show in Retrospect", February 17, 1958 - March 17, 1958
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY, "The Museum and Its Friends, Twentieth-Century American Art from Collections of the Friends of the Whitney Museum", April 30, 1958 - June 15, 1958
The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL, "The Ben Heller Collection of Paintings of the School of New York", September 22, 1961 - October 22, 1961 Travelled to:
Baltimore Museum of Art, Baltimore, MD, "The Collection of Mr. and Mrs. Ben Heller", December 03, 1961 - December 31, 1961
Contemporary Arts Center, Cincinnati, OH, "The Collection of Mr. and Mrs. Ben Heller", January 22, 1962 - February 25, 1962
The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH, "The Collection of Mr. and Mrs. Ben Heller", March 13, 1962 - April 10, 1962
California Palace of the Legion of Honor, San Francisco, CA, "The Collection of Mr. and Mrs. Ben Heller", April 30, 1962 - June 03, 1962
Portland Art Museum, Portland, OR, "The Collection of Mr. and Mrs. Ben Heller", June 15, 1962 - July 22, 1962
Los Angeles County Museum, Los Angeles, CA, "The Collection of Mr. and Mrs. Ben Heller", September 05, 1962 - October 14, 1962
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY, "New York Painting and Sculpture 1940-1970", October 18, 1969 - February 01, 1970
David McKee Gallery, New York, NY, "A Tribute to Philip Guston: Paintings and Drawings from 1950 to 1980", October 11, 1980 - November 12, 1980 
Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia, Madrid, Spain, "Philip Guston: Retrospectiva de Pintura", March 01, 1989 - May 08, 1989  Travelled to:
Palau de la Virreina, Barcelona, Spain, "Philip Guston: Retrospectiva de Pintura", May 25, 1989 - July 16, 1989
Saint Louis Art Museum, St. Louis, MO, "Philip Guston: 50 Years of Painting", September 09, 1989 - October 22, 1989
Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas, TX, "Philip Guston: 50 Years of Painting", November 19, 1989 - January 14, 1990
Orlando Museum of Art, Orlando, FL, "The Edward R. Broida Collection: A Selection of Works", March 12, 1998 - June 21, 1998
Kunstmuseum Bonn, Bonn, Germany, "Philip Guston: Gemälde 1947 - 1979", September 02, 1999 - November 01, 1999  Travelled to:
Kunstverein Stuttgart, Stuttgart, Germany, "Philip Guston: Gemälde 1947 - 1979", February 16, 2000 - April 24, 2000
National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada, "Philip Guston: Paintings of Four Decades", May 12, 2000 - July 30, 2000
Musee National d'Art Moderne, Centre Pompidou, Paris, France, "Philip Guston Peintures 1947 - 1979", September 13, 2000 - December 04, 2000
Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, Fort Worth, TX, "Philip Guston Retrospective", March 30, 2003 - June 08, 2003  Travelled to:
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA, "Philip Guston Retrospective", June 28, 2003 - September 27, 2003
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY, "Philip Guston Retrospective", October 27, 2003 - January 04, 2004
Royal Academy of Arts, London, England, "Philip Guston Retrospective", January 24, 2004 - April 12, 2004
Bibliography
Hunter, Sam. "Guggenheim Sampler." Art Digest, May 15, 1954, pp. 8-9, 31, mentioned in text p. 9 as "Painting #1", not illus.
"From Younger American Painters, an Exhibition at the Guggenheim Museum, New York, May 12–July 31." College Art Journal 13, no. 4 (1954): p. 318, illus. in b&w p. 318, listed as "Painting # 1, 1954"
Younger American Painters: A Selection. Exh. cat. New York: The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, 1954, cat. no. 23, illus. in b&w, listed as "Painting #1", 1954
The 1913 Armory Show in Retrospect. Exh. cat. Amherst: Amherst College, 1958, not illus., shown as part of a contemporary artists show
The Museum and its Friends: Twentieth-century American Art from Collections of the Friends of the Whitney Museum. Exh. cat. New York: Whitney Museum of American Art, 1958, cat. no. 67, illus. in b&w p. 48
Ashton, Dore. Philip Guston. New York: Grove, 1960, illus. in color p. 21, plate 3
Alloway, Lawrence. "Book Reviews: Ashton on Guston." Arts Review, July 23–August 12, 1961, pp. 17, 20, mentioned in text p. 17, not illus.
The Collection of Mr. and Mrs. Ben Heller. Exh. cat. New York: The Museum of Modern Art, 1961, unnumbered catalog, illus. in b&w p. 28, shown as "Zone", mentioned in text p. 9
Berkson, Bill. "Art Chronicle." Kulchur, Autumn 1962, pp. 30–40, mentioned in text p. 37, not illus.
Berkson, William. "Philip Guston: A New Emphasis: In These Canvases of the Sixties Doubt Itself Becomes a Form That Can Be Read as Natural Law." Arts Magazine, February 1966, pp. 15–18, mentioned in text, not illus., listed as being from 1953-54
Geldzahler, Henry. New York Painting and Sculpture: 1940–1970. Exh. cat. New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1969, cat. no. 112 illus. in b&w p. 171
Moritz, Charles, ed. Current Biography, February 1971, pp. 10-13, mentioned in text p. 12, not illus.
Sandler, Irving. The Triumph of American Painting: A History of Abstract Expressionism. New York: Harper & Row, Icon Editions, 1976, illus. in b&w fig. 19-32 and mentioned in text p. 264
Ashton, Dore. Yes, but... A Critical Study of Philip Guston. New York: Viking, 1976, illus. in b&w p. 107
Coolidge, Clark. "Clark Coolidge Class 1." Naropa Institute Jack Kerouac School of Disembodied Poetics, Boulder, July 1, 1980, Audio recording, mentioned
Kachur, Lewis. "Philip Guston." Arts Magazine, January 1981, p. 9, mentioned in text, not illus.
Storr, Robert. Philip Guston. New York: Abbeville Modern Masters, 1986, illus. in color no. 28 p. 33
Arnason, H. H. History of Modern Art. 3rd ed. New York: Harry N. Abrams, 1986, illus. in b&w fig. 591 p. 394
Zaller, Robert. "Philip Guston and the Crisis of the Image." Critical Inquiry 14, no. 1 (1987): pp. 69–94, illus. in b&w Fig. 4 p. 77, mentioned in text p. 75
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.
Brandenburg, John. "Seeing Guston's Art Requires a 'Leap' to Dallas." Oklahoman (Oklahoma City, OK), December 24, 1989, section Travel & Entertainment, p. 4, mentioned in text, not illus., incorrectly listed as being from mid-1940s
Tyson, Janet. "Autobiographical side paints life of struggle." Fort Worth Star-Telegram, December 28, 1989, section Four, pp. 1, 7, mentioned in text, not illus.
Philip Guston: Retrospectiva de Pintura. Exh. cat. Essays by Mark Rosenthal, Robert Storr, Carrie Rickey, Francisco Calvo Serraller, and Dore Ashton. Madrid: Ministerio de Cultura, Dirección General de Bellas Artes y Archivos, Centro Nacional de Exposiciones, 1989, cat. no. 10, illus. in color p. 41
Mayer, Musa. Night Studio: A Memoir of Philip Guston by His Daughter. 1988. Reprint, New York: Penguin, 1990, mentioned in text p. 63, not illus.
Ashton, Dore. A Critical Study of Philip Guston. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1990, illus. in b&w p. 107
Mayer, Musa. "Under the Influence." Mirabella, March 1991, pp. 140-144, mentioned in text p. 142, not illus.
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Unger, Miles. "Philip Guston: Wrestling with the Past." Art New England, December 1994–January 1995, pp. 32–34, 71, mentioned in text p. 33, not illus.
Mayer, Musa. Night Studio: A Memoir of Philip Guston. Reprint, Boston: Da Capo Press, 1997.
, mentioned in text p. 63, not illus.
American Visions. "Program 8: 1970–Present." Written and presented by Robert Hughes. BBC, Planet 24 Productions, Time, WNET Channel 13 New York, 1997. Television documentary series.
Arnason, H. H., and Marla F. Prather. History of Modern Art. 4th ed. New York: Harry N. Abrams, 1998, illus. in color fig. 243 p. 455
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Haase, Amine. "Die Gewalt der lesbaren Bilder: Spektakulär Deutschland-Premiere des amerikanischen Malers Philip Guston." Kölner Stadt-Anzeiger (Cologne), September 2, 1999, mentioned in text, not illus.
Anfam, David. "Bonn, Philip Guston." Burlington Magazine, December 1999, pp. 767-78, mentioned in text p. 767, 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. 70
Cena, Olivier. "Sous l'ombre de Satan." Télérama (Paris), September 27, 2000, p. 96, mentioned in text, not illus.
Gignoux, Sabine. "Guston, pinceau au poing." La Croix (Paris), September 28, 2000, section Culture, p. 20, mentioned in text, not illus.
Philip Guston Tableaux / Paintings 1947 - 1979. Exh. cat. Ostfildern: Hatje Cantz Publishers, 2000, illus. in color p. 70 and mentioned in text pp. 11, 12, 17, 37, 49-50
Philip Guston Peintures 1947-1979. Exh. brochure. Paris: Centre Pompidou, 2000, mentioned in text, not illus.
Ottinger, Didier, and Philip Roth. Philip Guston: Peintures 1947–1979. Exh. cat. Paris: Centre Georges Pompidou, 2000, illus. in color p. 53
Anfam, David. "Telling Tales: Philip Guston in Retrospect." Artforum International, May 2003, pp. 132–39, 192, illus. in color p. 136
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USA Today (West Babylon, NY). "Philip Guston: Abstract Expressionism's Provocative Pioneer and Ultimate Critic." November 1, 2003, mentioned in text
Minthorn, David. "Exhibit Honors Acclaimed Guston." Star-Gazette (Elmira, NY), November 2, 2003, mentioned in text, not illus.
Auping, Michael. Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, Philip Guston Retrospective. Exh. cat. London: Thames & Hudson, 2003, illus. in color Plate 36, unpaginated (but would be p. 135) and illus. in b&w, Figure 7, p. 43, mentioned in text pp. 42-43 (Michael Auping essay)
Lambirth, Andrew. "Apocalyptic Vision." Spectator (London), January 24, 2004, p. 36, mentioned in text, not illus.
Philip Guston: Odd Man Out. BBC Four, January 28, 2004. Television, illus. in color
Melandri, Lisa, and Michael R. Taylor. Enigma Variations: Philip Guston and Giorgio de Chirico. Exh. cat. Santa Monica: Santa Monica Museum of Art, 2006, illus. in b&w Fig. 24 p. 27
Botelho, Manuel. Guston em contexto: até ao regresso da figura. Lisbon: Livros Vendaval, 2007, illus. in b&w p. 95 and mentioned in text p. 99
Fineman, Mia. "Drawn-Out Process: Philip Guston's Brave Evolution from Abstract Expressionist to Comics-Inspired Draftsman." Slate Magazine, May 14, 2008. Online., mentioned in text, not illus.
Miller, Peter Benson, ed. Philip Guston Roma. Exh. cat. Ostfildern: Hatje Cantz Verlag, 2010, illus. in color p. 26, Fig. 3 and mentioned in text p. 26 (Peter Benson Miller essay)
Pfeiffer, Ingrid, and Max Hollein, eds. Philip Guston Das Grosse Spatwerk/Late Works. Exh. cat. Cologne: Strzeleckibooks, 2013, mentioned in text p. 142 (English)/143 (German), not illus.
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 pp. 11 and 130, listed as being from 1953-54
Storr, Robert. "Philip Guston: Hilarious and Horrifying." New York Review of Books, March 8, 2015. Online, mentioned in text, not illus., listed as being from 1953-54
Hauser & Wirth 7. "Philip Guston: The Hands of Clocks." Winter 2015, pp. 24-35, mentioned in text p. 33, not illus.
Mayer, Musa. Night Studio: A Memoir of Philip Guston. 1988. Reprint, Munich: Sieveking Verlag; Zurich: Hauser & Wirth, 2016, mentioned in text p. 94, not illus.
Wilson, Rachael M. "Singular Collaborations: Figures of Disjunction in Verbal-Visual Poetics." PhD diss., New York University, 2016, mentioned in text p. 165 n. 20, not illus.
Wilson, Rachael. "Collocations on the plane: Clark Coolidge and Philip Guston's Poem-Pictures." Textual Practice 32, April 18, 2017, mentioned in text p. 4, not illus.
Mayer, Musa. Night Studio: Un ritratto intimo di Philip Guston. Monza: Johan & Levi, 2017, mentioned in text p. 79, not illus.
Wilson, Rachael. "Collocations on the plane: Clark Coolidge and Philip Guston's Poem-Pictures." Textual Practice 32, no. 8, October 2018. Reprint, Hudson, NY: Periodicals Service Company, 2020, pp. 1425-1450, mentioned in text p. 1428, not illus.
Arn, Jackson. "Why AbEx Painter Philip Guston's Return to Figuration Enraged the Art World." Artsy, October 10, 2018. Online, mentioned in text, not illus.
Thomas, Elly. Play and the Artist's Creative Process. New York: Routledge, 2019, mentioned in text p. 67, not illus.
Miller, Peter Benson. Encounters I. Exh. cat. Rome: American Academy in Rome, 2019, mentioned in text p. 6, not illus.
Storr, Robert. Philip Guston: A Life Spent Painting. London: Laurence King Publishing, 2020, No. 43 illus. in color p. 57 and mentioned in text p. 52
Mayer, Musa. Night Studio: A Memoir of Philip Guston. 1988. Reprint, Zurich: Hauser & Wirth, 2023, mentioned in text p. 94, not illus.