Catalogue Raisonné
P58.003
Oil on canvas
65 x 75⅜ in.
165.1 x 191.4 cm
Signed front lower left: Philip Guston; inscribed on reverse: PHILIP GUSTON/ 'NILE' 1958/ 65" x 75 1/2"
- Provenance
- Collection Unknown
- Auction: Sotheby's, New York, Modern Evening Auction, May 17, 2022, Lot 15
- Private Collection
- Peter and Edith O'Donnell, Dallas
- Mr. Douglas Blake, Dallas
- Mrs. Elizabeth B. Blake, Dallas
- Exhibitions
- The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Houston, TX, "New York and Paris - Paintings in the 50s", January 16, 1959 - February 08, 1959
- Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY, "The Museum and Its Friends, Eighteen Living American Artists Selected by the Friends of the Whitney Museum, Second Loan Exhibition", March 05, 1959 - April 12, 1959
- Sidney Janis Gallery, New York, NY, "29 Recent Paintings by Philip Guston", December 28, 1959 - January 23, 1960
- Dallas Museum for Contemporary Arts, Dallas, TX, "To Be Continued: An Exhibition of the Museum Collection, Now and In Prospect", March 23, 1960 - April 24, 1960
- Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, NY, "Philip Guston", May 03, 1962 - July 01, 1962 Travelled to:
- University Art Museum of The University of Texas, Austin, TX, "Recent American Paintings", April 15, 1964 - May 15, 1964
- University of St. Thomas, Houston, TX, "Six Painters: Mondrian, Guston, Kline, De Kooning, Pollock, Rothko", February 23, 1967 - April 02, 1967
- Southern Methodist University, Dallas, TX, "Dallas Collects", September 22, 1968 - October 13, 1968
- Fort Worth Art Museum, Fort Worth, TX, "Twentieth Century Art from Fort Worth and Dallas Collections", September 06, 1974 - October 05, 1974
- Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas, TX, "[Unknown Title]", May 21, 1975 - June 22, 1975
- Bibliography
- Ragon, Michel. "L'Art Actuel aux Etats-Unis/Art Today in the United States." Cimaise (Paris), January–March 1959, illus. in b&w p. 10
- Canaday, John. "Art: Stylistic Poles Apart: Philip Guston, Abstractionist, and Jack Levine, Satirist, Have Shows Here." The New York Times, December 30, 1959, p. 44, mentioned in text, not illus.
- The Museum and Its Friends: Second Loan Exhibition. Exh. cat. New York: Whitney Museum of American Art, 1959, unnumbered catalog, illus. in b&w p. 19
- 29 Recent Paintings by Philip Guston. Exh. cat. New York: Sidney Janis Gallery, 1959, cat. no. 4, illus. in b&w (no page #)
- Kingston Daily Freeman. "Guston Exhibit Draws Acclaim at Janis Gallery." January 11, 1960, p. 14, mentioned in text, not illus.
- To Be Continued: The Museum Collection Now and In Prospect. Exh. cat. Dallas: Dallas Museum for Contemporary Arts, 1960, cat. no. 49, not illus.
- Seuphor, Michel. Abstract Painting: Fifty Years of Accomplishment from Kandinsky to the Present. New York: Abrams, 1961, no. 364, illus. in color p. 217 (reproduced sideways), title listed as "Nil"
- Henning, Edward B. “Some Contemporary Paintings." Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 49, no. 3 (1962): pp. 46–54, mentioned in text p. 53, not illus.
- Philip Guston. Exh. cat. New York: The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, 1962, cat. no. 44, not illus.
- Recent American Paintings. Exh. cat. Austin: University Art Museum, The University of Texas, 1964, cat. no. 17, not illus.
- Six Painters: Mondrian, Guston, Kline, De Kooning, Pollock, Rothko. Exh. cat. Houston: University of St. Thomas Art Department, 1967, cat. no. 19, illus. in color p. 39
- O'Hara, Frank. "Growth and Guston." In Art Chronicles 1954–1966. New York: George Braziller, 1975, pp. 134-141, mentioned in text p. 140, not illus.
- Ratcliff, Carter. "The Mastery of Philip Guston." Saturday Review, January 1981, pp. 81–83, illus. in color p. 81
- Bucklow, Christopher. What Is in the Dwat: The Universe of Guston's Final Decade. Grasmere, England: Wordsworth Trust, 2007, illus. in color plate no. 5, p. 171 and mentioned in text p. 60
- Schultz, Abby. "Sotheby's to Offer Rare Guston Ab-Ex Painting." Penta (New York), April 4, 2022. Online, illus. in color and mentioned in text
- artnet News. "Art Industry News: UNESCO Says at Least 53 Museums, Monuments, and Other Cultural Sites Have Been Damaged in Ukraine + Other Stories." April 4, 2022. Online, mentioned in text, not illus.
- Villa, Angelica. "$30 M. Philip Guston Painting Could Set Auction Record Amid Long-Awaited Retrospective." ARTnews, April 4, 2022. Online, illus. in color and mentioned in text
- Harris, Gareth. "Philip Guston's painting could make $30m, potentially breaking the artist's auction record." Art Newspaper, April 4, 2022. Online, illus. in color
- Ghassemitari, Shawn. "Philip Guston's 'Nile' to Hit Auction for the First Time." Hypebeast, April 5, 2022. Online, illus. in color and mentioned in text
- Il Giornale dell'Arte (Turin). "Giorno per giorno nell'arte." April 5, 2022. Online, mentioned in text, not illus.
- Crema, Elio. "Philip Guston: dalla travagliata retrospettiva al nuovo probabile record in asta." ArtsLife (Milan), April 5, 2022. Online., illus. in color and mentioned in text
- Artlyst. "Royal College of Art Still Number One In The World--Stolen Charles Darwin Notebooks Returned--Philip Guston Painting Expected To Break Records At Sotheby's." Artlyst, April 6, 2022. Online, illus. in color and mentioned in text
- RTBF. "Après avoir été censuré par plusieurs musées, Philip Guston pourrait battre son record de vente." April 6, 2022. Online, illus. in color and mentioned in text
- Exibart (Rome, Italy). "Sotheby's, Philip Guston verso il record da 30 milioni di dollari." April 7, 2022. Online, illus. in color and mentioned in text
- Rea, Naomi. "Will the Contentious Opening of a Philip Guston Show Hurt or Help the Artist's Market? We Parsed the Auction Data to Find Out." artnet News, April 12, 2022. Online, illus. in color and mentioned in text
- The Art Wolf. "Philip Guston, a much-needed retrospective. May 2, 2022. Online, mentioned in text, not illus.
- Baillargeon, Stéphane. "L'art délicat de montrer des oeuvres antiracistes sans froisser." Le Devoir (Montreal), May 5, 2022. Online, mentioned in text, not illus.
- Harris, Gareth, Kabir Jhala and Daniel Cassady. "From a possible record-breaking Philip Guston to coins linked to Caesar's assassination: our pick of the highlights from May's sales." Art Newspaper, May 10, 2022. Online, illus. in color
- Kinsella, Eileen. "Sotheby's Notched a Solid $408.5 Million Modern Art New York Sale Fueled by the Reliable Churn of Blue-Chip Monets and Picassos." artnet News, May 18, 2022. Online, illus. in color and mentioned in text
- Schultz, Abby. "A Marie-Therese Painting by Picasso Achieves $67.5 million at Sotheby's." Penta, May 18, 2022. Online, mentioned in text, not illus.
- Taylor, Erin. "Big Winners From Sotheby's Modern Evening Auction Sale." Observer (New York), May 18, 2022. Online, illus. in color
- Reimers, Anne. "Was es für Abendauktionen der Superlative alles braucht." Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung (Frankfurt am Main), May 20, 2022. Online, illus. in color
- Masturzo, Cristina. "Monet e Picasso trainano l'asta serale di Modern Art da Sotheby's a New York." Artribune (Rome), May 21, 2022. Online., illus. in color
- McDonald, John. "Why Philip Guston's work is still causing headaches for galleries." Sydney Morning Herald, May 26, 2023. Online, illus. in color
