Catalogue Raisonné

P61.004

Close-Up III, 1961
Oil on canvas
70 x 72 in.
177.8 x 182.9 cm
Unsigned, undated
Provenance
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Gift of Lee V. Eastman, 1972
Collection Lee V. Eastman, Scarsdale, New York
Exhibitions
Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, NY, "Philip Guston", May 03, 1962 - July 01, 1962  Travelled to:
The Jewish Museum, New York, NY, "Philip Guston, Recent Paintings and Drawings", January 12, 1966 - February 13, 1966 
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY, "Philip Guston Drawings 1938-1972", July 11, 1973 - September 04, 1973 
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA, "Philip Guston, Retrospective 1930 - 1979", May 15, 1980 - June 29, 1980  Travelled to:
The Bronx Museum of the Arts, Bronx, NY, "Return to the Figure: Three Studies: Philip Guston, Jean Helion, Irene Rice Pereira", April 07, 1988 - August 28, 1988
Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan, "Founders and Heirs of the New York School", January 25, 1997 - March 16, 1997 Travelled to:
Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, Fort Worth, TX, "Philip Guston Retrospective", March 30, 2003 - June 08, 2003  Travelled to:
Bibliography
Ashton, Dore. The Unknown Shore: A View of Contemporary Art. Boston: Little, Brown, 1962, illus. in b&w p. 72 and mentioned in text p. 71
Philip Guston. Exh. cat. Amsterdam: Stedelijk Museum, 1962, illus. in color (no page #)
Philip Guston. Exh. cat. New York: The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, 1962, cat. no. 90, illus. in color p. 105, Collection Lee V. Eastman, Scarsdale, NY, mentioned in text p. 37
Guston, Philip, Harold Rosenberg, and Jewish Museum. Philip Guston: Recent Paintings and Drawings. Introduction by Sam Hunter. Exh. cat. New York: Jewish Museum, 1965, cat. no. 3, illus. in b&w, Collection Mr. & Mrs. Lee V. Eastman, Scarsdale
Rosenberg, Harold. "Liberation from Detachment." The New Yorker, November 7, 1970, pp. 136–41, mentioned in text p. 138, not illus.
Ashton, Dore. A Reading of Modern Art. Rev ed. 1969. Reprint, New York: Harper & Row, 1971, illus. in b&w no. 19 p. 97 (unpaginated)
Rosenberg, Harold. The De-Definition of Art: Action Art to Pop to Earthworks. New York: Horizon Press, 1972, illus. in b&w p. 137
Geldzahler, Henry. "Twentieth Century Art." In The Metropolitan Museum of Art: Notable Acquisitions, 1965–1975. New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1975, illus. in b&w p. 220
Ashton, Dore. Yes, but... A Critical Study of Philip Guston. New York: Viking, 1976, illus. in b&w p. 127
Forgey, Benjamin. "Getting to Know Guston." Washington Star, July 20, 1980, section Arts & Books, pp. E-1, E-2, mentioned in text p. E-2, not illus.
Philip Guston. Exh. cat. New York: George Braziller, 1980, cat. no. 36, illus. in color plate 34 p. 78 and mentioned in text pp. 20-21
Hanson, Bernard. "Guston's Fine Lines and Gray Areas." Hartford Courant, August 23, 1981, p. G2, mentioned in text, not illus.
Ablow, Joseph. "Philip Guston: The Last Paintings." Bostonia Magazine April/May 1986: pp. 14–19, mentioned in text p. 16, not. illus.
Storr, Robert. Philip Guston. New York: Abbeville Modern Masters, 1986, illus. in color no. 37 p. 44 and mentioned in text p. 42
Thaw, Eugene Victor. "The Abstract Expressionists." The Metropolitan Museum of Art Bulletin, Winter 1986–1987, illus. in color Figure 42 p. 51 and mentioned in text p. 47
Zaller, Robert. "Philip Guston and the Crisis of the Image." Critical Inquiry 14, no. 1 (1987): pp. 69–94, mentioned in text p. 80, not illus.
Ashton, Dore. "That Is Not What I Meant at All: Why Philip Guston Is Not Postmodern." Arts Magazine, November 1988, pp. 67–71, mentioned in text p. 69 as one of a series, not illus.
Return to the Figure: Three Studies. Exh. cat. Bronx: The Bronx Museum of the Arts, 1988, cat. no. 3, not illus.
Ashton, Dore. A Critical Study of Philip Guston. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1990, illus. in b&w p. 127
Ottinger, Didier. Philip Guston (1913–1980) Oeuvres Sur Papier 1975–1980. Exh. cat. Les Sables d'Olonne: Musée de l'Abbaye Sainte-Croix des Sables d'Olonne, France, 1995, illus. in b&w no page # (not in exhibition)
Founders and Heirs of the New York School. Exh. cat. Tokyo: Yomiuri Shimbun, 1997, cat. no. 55, illus. in color p. 117
Anfam, David. "Telling Tales: Philip Guston in Retrospect." Artforum International, May 2003, pp. 132–39, 192, mentioned in text p. 136, not illus.
Siegel, Lee. "The Artful Dodger: Philip Guston was Misunderstood—But Why?" Slate Magazine, December 9, 2003, color image included as part of slide show attached to article
Auping, Michael. Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, Philip Guston Retrospective. Exh. cat. London: Thames & Hudson, 2003, illus. in color Plate 51, unpaginated
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.
Storr, Robert. Philip Guston: A Life Spent Painting. London: Laurence King Publishing, 2020, No. 80 illus. in color p. 89, illus. in color p. 335 as part of an installation photo and mentioned in text p. 64