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P61.002

Duo, 1961
Oil on canvas
72⅛ x 68 in.
183.2 x 172.7 cm
Signed front lower left: Philip Guston
Provenance
Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York
Exhibitions
Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, NY, "American Abstract Expressionists and Imagists", October 13, 1961 - December 31, 1961
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
Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, NY, "Selections from the Museum Collection", April 02, 1964 - April 13, 1964
XXXII Esposizione Biennale Internazionale d'Arte, Venice, Italy, "Arte d'oggi de musei", June 20, 1964 - October 18, 1964
Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, NY, "Paintings from the Collection of the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum", April 30, 1965 - October 03, 1965
Rose Art Museum, Brandeis University, Waltham, MA, "Philip Guston, A Selective Retrospective Exhibition: 1945-1965", February 27, 1966 - March 27, 1966 
Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, NY, "Museum Collection", April 23, 1966 - September 18, 1966
Cincinnati Art Museum, Cincinnati, OH, "Paintings from the Guggenheim Museum: A Loan Exhibition of Modern Paintings Covering the Period 1949-1965 from the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum", October 03, 1969 - March 29, 1970
Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, NY, "Selections from the Guggenheim Museum Collection 1900-1970", May 01, 1970 - September 13, 1970
Centre College, Danville, KY, "Postwar Painting from the Guggenheim", September 05, 1972 - June 02, 1973
Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, NY, "American Painters through Two Decades from the Museum Collection", February 23, 1973 - April 01, 1973
Columbus Gallery of Fine Arts, Columbus, OH, "Aspects of Postwar Painting in America", January 15, 1976 - February 29, 1976
Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, NY, "Acquisition Priorities: Aspects of Postwar Painting in America", October 15, 1976 - January 16, 1977
Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, NY, "Collection: Art in America after World War II", January 18, 1979 - February 25, 1979
Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, NY, "1900-1980 from the Guggenheim Museum Collection", May 23, 1980 - November 02, 1980
Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, NY, "Contemporary Americans: Museum Collection and Recent Acquisitions", January 29, 1981 - April 12, 1981
Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, NY, "The New York School: Four Decades, Museum Collection and Loans", July 01, 1982 - August 29, 1982
Tokyo Metropolitan Art Museum, Tokyo, Japan, "20th Century Painting and Modern Sculpture - Modern Art in the West", October 01, 1983 - December 25, 1983
Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, NY, "Painterly Visions, 1940-1984: The Guggenheim", June 28, 1985 - September 02, 1985
Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, NY, "Fifty Years of Collecting: Painting Since World War II in North America", February 04, 1987 - March 13, 1988
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
Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, NY, "Viewpoints: Postwar Painting and Sculpture", December 09, 1988 - January 22, 1989
Centre Cultural de la Fundacio "la Caixa", Barcelona, Spain, "Made in USA 1940-1970 Abstract Expressionism to Pop", January 21, 1999 - April 04, 1999 Travelled to:
Schirn Kunsthalle Frankfurt, Frankfurt, Germany, "Between Art and Life: Vom Abstrakten Expressionismus zur Pop Art" , April 30, 1999 - July 04, 1999
Fogg Art Museum, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, "Philip Guston: A New Alphabet, The Late Transition", September 23, 2000 - February 04, 2001 
Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, NY, "The Global Guggenheim: Selections from the Extended Collection", February 01, 2001 - April 22, 2001
Foro Boairo, Modena, Italy, "Action Painting: Dal disegno all'opera, arte americana 1940-1970", November 21, 2004 - February 27, 2005
Museo Guggenheim Bilbao, Bilbao, Spain, "Art Informel and Abstract Expressionism in the Guggenheim Collections", March 08, 2005 - November 15, 2005
National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, Australia, "Guggenheim Collection: 1940s to Now: New York - Venice - Bilbao - Berlin", June 30, 2007 - October 07, 2007
Emirates Palace, Abu Dhabi, U.A.E., "The Guggenheim: The Making of a Museum", November 17, 2009 - February 04, 2010
Arca, ex Chiesa di San Marco, Vercelli, Italy, "Peggy e Solomon R. Guggenheim: le avanguardie dell'astrazione", February 20, 2010 - May 30, 2010
Museo Guggenheim Bilbao, Bilbao, Spain, "Painterly Abstraction, 1949-1969: Selections from the Guggenheim Collections", June 14, 2011 - January 08, 2012
Royal Academy of Arts, London, England, "Abstract Expressionism", September 24, 2016 - January 02, 2017 Travelled to:
Museo Guggenheim Bilbao, Bilbao, Spain, "Expresionismo Abstracto", February 03, 2017 - June 04, 2017
Bibliography
Alloway, Lawrence. "Easel Painting at the Guggenheim." Art International, Christmas 1961, pp. 26-34, illus. p. 33
Ashton, Dore. "Art." Arts & Architecture, December 1961, pp. 4–5, illus. in b&w p. 5
American Abstract Expressionists and Imagists. Exh. cat. New York: The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, 1961, cat. no. 23, illus. in b&w p. 49. Also described on p. 28 in introduction written by H.H. Arnason
Ashton, Dore. "Art USA 1962." Studio, March 1962, pp. 84–95, illus. in color p. 84
Hunter, Sam, "Philip Guston," Art International, May 1962, pp. 62–67, illus. in color p. 67
Genauer, Emily. "Guston's Switch from Meaning." New York Herald Tribune, May 6, 1962, section 4, Art, p. 7, illus. in b&w p. 7
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Paintings from the Collection of the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum. Exh. cat. New York: The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, 1965, cat. no. 83, color plate
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Acquisition Priorities: Aspects of Postwar Painting in America. Exh. cat. New York: The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, 1976, cat. no. 36, illus. in b&w p. 73
Arnason, H. H. History of Modern Art: Painting, Sculpture, Architecture. 2nd ed. New York: Harry N. Abrams, 1977, mentioned in text p. 528, not illus.
Barnett, Vivian Endicott. Handbook: the Guggenheim Museum Collection 1900-1980. New York: Solomon R. Guggenheim, 1984, no. 209, illus. in b&w p. 437
Ablow, Joseph. "Philip Guston: The Last Paintings." Bostonia Magazine April/May 1986: pp. 14–19, mentioned in text p. 16, not illus.
Messer, Thomas M. Fifty Years of Collecting: An Anniversary Selection, Painting since World War II: Europe, Latin America, North America. Exh. cat. New York: Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, 1987, cat. no. 24 (North America section) illus. in b&w p. 121
Return to the Figure: Three Studies. Exh. cat. Bronx: The Bronx Museum of the Arts, 1988, cat. no. 2, not illus.
Between Art and Life: Vom Abstrakten Expressionismus zur Pop Art. Exh. cat. Frankfurt am Main: Schirn Kunsthalle Frankfurt, 1999, illus. in color p. 81
Weber, Joanna, Harry Cooper, and Laura Greengold. Philip Guston A New Alphabet: The Late Transition. Exh. cat. New Haven: Yale University Art Gallery, 2000, illus. in color Plate 1, shown at Harvard only
Guggenheim Collection: 1940s to Now. Exh. cat. Melbourne: National Gallery of Victoria, 2007, illus. in color p. 163
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