Catalogue Raisonné

P64.012

The Three, 1964
Oil on canvas
80 x 91 in.
203.2 x 231.1 cm
Signed front lower left: Philip Guston; inscribed on reverse: 14 (crossed out)/PHILIP GUSTON/"THE THREE" (underlined) 1964/OIL 80 x 91 (underlined)/N.F.S. (underlined) COLLECTION OF ARTIST (underlined)
Provenance
Promised gift of Musa Guston Mayer to The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Exhibitions
The Jewish Museum, New York, NY, "Philip Guston, Recent Paintings and Drawings", January 12, 1966 - February 13, 1966 
Boston University Art Gallery, Boston, MA, "American Artists of the Nineteen Sixties", February 06, 1970 - March 14, 1970
Fondation Maeght, Saint-Paul-de-Vence, France, "L'Art Vivant aux Etats-Unis", July 16, 1970 - September 30, 1970
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 Ludwig, Köln, Germany, "Bilderstreit Widerspruch, Einheit und Fragment in der Kunst seit 1960", April 08, 1989 - June 28, 1989
Hauser & Wirth, New York, NY, "Philip Guston: Painter", April 26, 2016 - July 30, 2016 
Hauser & Wirth, Hong Kong, "Philip Guston: A Painter's Forms, 1950-1979", May 29, 2018 - August 25, 2018 
Bibliography
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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. 26, illus. in b&w
American Artists of the Nineteen Sixties; Boston University School of Fine & Applied Arts Centennial Exhibition. Exh. cat. Boston: Boston University School of Fine & Applied Arts, 1970, illus. in b&w p. 27, unnumbered catalog
L'Art Vivant aux Etats-Unis. Exh. cat. Paris: Fondation Maeght, 1970, illus. in color p. 48, image reproduced upside down
Feldman, Morton. "After Modernism." Art in America, November–December 1971, pp. 68-77, illus. in color p. 75
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