Catalogue Raisonné

P61.008

The Actors III, 1961
Oil on panel
30 x 40 in.
76.2 x 101.6 cm
Signed front lower right: Philip Guston  
Provenance
Private Collection
Exhibitions
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, "Visual R&D: A Corporation Collects: The CIBA-GEIGY Collection of Contemporary Paintings", June 10, 1973 - August 12, 1973
Montgomery Museum of Fine Arts, Montgomery, AL, "Art, Inc. American Paintings from Corporate Collections", March 07, 1979 - May 06, 1979 Travelled to:
Sewall Art Gallery, Houston, TX, "[Unknown Title]", 1981
Sewall Art Gallery, Houston, TX, "CIBA-GEIGY Collects: Aspects of Abstraction", September 08, 1981 - October 24, 1981
New Jersey Center for Visual Arts, Summit, NJ, "Styles of Painting from the New York School: Selections from the CIBA-GEIGY Collection", November 14, 1987 - December 30, 1987
Bertha and Karl Leubsdorf Art Gallery, New York, NY, "Paths of Abstraction: Painting in New York 1944 - 1981 Selections from the Ciba Art Collection", September 13, 1994 - October 29, 1994
Bibliography
Philip Guston. Exh. cat. New York: The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, 1962, cat. no. 94, illus. in b&w p. 109
CIBA-GEIGY Corporation. The CIBA-GEIGY Art Collection Acquisitions as of Summer 1973. Ardsley: Ciba-Geigy Corporation, 1973, illus. in color p. 11 (unpaginated)
Visual R & D: A Corporation Collects. Exh. cat. Austin: University of Texas at Austin, 1973, no cat. #, illus. in color
Art Inc., American Paintings from Corporate Collections. Exh. cat. Montgomery: Montgomery Museum of Fine Arts, 1979, illus. in color p. 177 and mentioned in text p. 176
CIBA-GEIGY Collects: Aspects of Abstraction. Exh. cat. Houston: Rice University, 1981, illus. in color p. 11
Hackley, Randall. "Corporate Art-buying on Upswing." Iowa City Press-Citizen, December 10, 1985, mentioned in text, not illus.
Hackley, Randall. "Corporations Becoming New Royalty in High-priced World of Art Collecting." Chicago Tribune, January 2, 1986, mentioned in text, not illus.
Ablow, Joseph. "Philip Guston: The Last Paintings." Bostonia Magazine April/May 1986: pp. 14–19, illus. in color p. 16
Styles of Painting in the New York School: Selections from the CIBA-GEIGY Collection. Exh. cat. Summit: New Jersey Center for Visual Arts, 1987.
, illus. in color (unpaginated)
Storr, Robert. Philip Guston: A Life Spent Painting. London: Laurence King Publishing, 2020, No. 78 illus. in color p. 88 and mentioned in text p. 70