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P57.009

Fable II, 1957
Oil on illustration board mounted on panel
24⅝ x 35¾ in.
62.6 x 90.8 cm
Unsigned, undated on front; Signed, dated and inscribed on reverse: Philip Guston/"FABLE" II" (backwards 'F') 1957/25 x 36/N.F.S.
Provenance
Promised gift of Musa Guston Mayer to The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Exhibitions
Sidney Janis Gallery, New York, NY, "Philip Guston", February 24, 1958 - March 22, 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
Sidney Janis Gallery, New York, NY, "A Selection of 20th Century Art of 3 Generations", November 24, 1964 - December 26, 1964
Rose Art Museum, Brandeis University, Waltham, MA, "Philip Guston, A Selective Retrospective Exhibition: 1945-1965", February 27, 1966 - March 27, 1966 
McKee Gallery, New York, NY, "Philip Guston: Paintings from the Fifties", April 22, 1995 - June 03, 1995 
Hauser & Wirth, New York, NY, "Philip Guston: Painter", April 26, 2016 - July 30, 2016 
Bibliography
The New York Times. "10 Americans Get Ford Art Grants: Painters and Sculptors Are Named for $10,000 Each to Free Them for Work." February 18, 1959, mentioned in text, not illus.
A V Bienal, Estados Unidos, 1959. Exh. cat. Minneapolis: Minneapolis Society of Fine Arts, 1959, cat. no. 16, not illus.
XXX Biennale Internazionale D'Arte. Exh. cat. Venice: Biennale de Venice, 1960, cat. no. 7, not illus., listed as "Favola II"
Ashton, Dore. Philip Guston. New York: Grove, 1960, illus. in color p. 27 (unpaginated)
Quattro Artisti Americani: Guston, Hofmann, Kline, Roszak, XXX Biennale Venezia. Exh. cat. Washington, D.C.: Baltimore Museum of Art, 1960, cat. no. 7, not illus.
Hunter, Sam, "Philip Guston," Art International, May 1962, pp. 62–67, illus. in b&w p. 64 and mentioned in text p. 66
Philip Guston. Exh. cat. New York: The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, 1962, cat. no. 36, illus. in color p. 74
Harrison, Jane. "Kitaj in London." Arts, April 1963, pp. 26–27, mentioned in text p. 27, not illus.
A Selection of 20th Century Art of 3 Generations. Exh. cat. New York: Sidney Janis Gallery, 1964, cat. no. 23, illus. in b&w
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.
Philip Guston: A Selective Retrospective Exhibition: 1945–1965. Exh. brochure. Waltham: The Poses Institute of Fine Arts, Rose Art Museum, Brandeis University, 1966, cat. no. 13
Nicholas Serota, ed. Philip Guston: Paintings 1969–1980. Exh. cat. London: Whitechapel Art Gallery, 1982, illus. in b&w p. 11 (not in exhibition)
Storr, Robert. Philip Guston. New York: Abbeville Modern Masters, 1986, illus. in color no. 30 p. 36
Philip Guston, Opere Su Carta 1933–1980. Exh. cat. Milan: Electa, 1989, illus. in b&w p. 52
Smith, Roberta. "A Philip Guston Decade Colored by Red and Pink." New York Times, April 28, 1995, section C, p. 32, illus. in b&w and mentioned in text
Philip Guston: Paintings from the Fifties. Exh. cat. New York: McKee Gallery, 1995, cat. no. 9, illus. in color (no page #)
Hauser & Wirth 7. "Philip Guston: The Hands of Clocks." Winter 2015, pp. 24-35, illus. in color p. 27
Hamer, Katy Diamond. "In the Abstract." Cultured, April 2016. Online, mentioned in text, not illus.
Yareah. "New York Exhibits. Philip Guston at Hauser & Wirth." April 11, 2016. Online, mentioned in text, not illus.
NY Arts. "Philip Guston: Painter, 1957–1967 @ Hauser & Wirth New York." April 13, 2016. Online, illus. in color and mentioned in text
Johnson, Paddy, and Michael Anthony Farley. "This Week's Must See Events: So Many Open Studios." Art F City, April 26, 2016. Online, detail illus. in color
Broadway World. "Hauser & Wirth to Display New Philip Guston Exhibit, Today." April 26, 2016. Online, mentioned in text, not illus.
Kinsella, Eileen. "Hauser and Wirth Opens Huge Philip Guston Show Pinpointing 'Pivotal' Decade." artnet News, April 27, 2016. Online, illus. in color
Eckardt, Stephanie. "Philip Guston's Pivotal Moment." W, April 27, 2016. Online, illus. in color
Micchelli, Thomas. "Flesh and Bones: Philip Guston's 'Thingness.'" Hyperallergic, April 30, 2016. Online, illus. in color and mentioned in text
Scobie, Ilka. "Philip Guston's Last Decade of Abstraction Hauser & Wirth NY." Artlyst, May 10, 2016. Online, illus. in color
Galleries Now. "Philip Guston: Painter, 1957–1967." May 10, 2016. Online, mentioned in text, not illus.
Baker, R. C. "Master Baffler: How Philip Guston Gave Form to Doubt." Village Voice, May 17, 2016, section Visual Arts. Online, illus. in color and mentioned in text
Arte Fuse. "Philip Guston Painter, 1957–1967 at Hauser & Wirth." May 21, 2016. Online, mentioned in text, not illus.
Schwabsky, Barry. "The Chameleon Painter: Even in His Most Pared-Down Paintings, Philip Guston Was Digging for Something New." Nation, June 1, 2016. Online, mentioned in text, not illus.
Panero, James. "Gallery Chronicle." New Criterion, June 2016. Online, illus. in color and mentioned in text
Pardee, Hearne. "Roundtable: Philip Guston at Hauser & Wirth." Artcritical, June 9, 2016. Online, illus. in color and mentioned in text
Martin, Alison. "Philip Guston at Hauser & Wirth." Artery NYC, July 8, 2016. Online, illus. in color and mentioned in text
Philip Guston: Painter 1957–1967. Exh. cat. New York: Hauser & Wirth, 2016, illus. in color p. 43
Saltz, Jerry. "How to Be an Artist: 33 rules to take you from clueless amateur to generational talent (or at least help you live life a little more creatively)." New York, November 26–December 9, 2018, pp. 28–40, illus. in color p. 32
Thomas, Elly. Play and the Artist's Creative Process. New York: Routledge, 2019, mentioned in text p. 67, not illus.
Storr, Robert. Philip Guston: A Life Spent Painting. London: Laurence King Publishing, 2020, No. 52 illus. in color p. 69 and mentioned in text pp. 64 and 70
Coolidge, Clark, ed. Philip Guston: Que peindre sinon l'énigme. Translated by Éric Suchère. Strasbourg: L'Atelier Contemporain, 2023, illus. in color no. 64 (unpaginated)