Catalogue Raisonné
P65.006
Oil on canvas
70 x 80 in.
177.8 x 203.2 cm
Signed front lower left: Philip Guston; inscribed on reverse: PHILIP GUSTON [underlined]/ "MAY" [underlined] 1965 [underlined]/ 23 [crossed out]/ OIL [underlined] 70 x 80 [underlined]
- Provenance
- Private Collection-Bloomfield Hills, Michigan
- Private Collection
- Private Collection
- Auction: Sotheby's, New York, November 13, 1980, Lot 47
- Exhibitions
- The Jewish Museum, New York, NY, "Philip Guston, Recent Paintings and Drawings", January 12, 1966 - February 13, 1966
- Flint Institute of Arts, Flint, MI, "The First Flint Invitational", November 04, 1966 - December 31, 1966
- University of Texas at Austin Art Museum, Austin, TX, "Painting as Painting", February 18, 1968 - April 01, 1968
- The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Houston, TX, "The Director's Choice", April 10, 1970 - April 23, 1970
- Gertrude Kasle Gallery, Detroit, MI, "Philip Guston: Major Paintings of the Sixties", March 10, 1973 - April 07, 1973
- Flint Institute of Arts, Flint, MI, "Contemporary Collections", February 1980 - March 1980
- Max Protetch Gallery, New York, NY, "Stubborn Painting: Now & Then", December 19, 1991 - January 25, 1992
- Hauser & Wirth, New York, NY, "Philip Guston: Painter", April 26, 2016 - July 30, 2016
- Bibliography
- 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. 33, illus. in b&w, shown as "May Sixty-Five"
- Genauer, Emily. "Guston 'Negatives' versus Impressionist Positives." New York Herald Tribune, January 16, 1966, p. 27, image reproduced upside down
- Barker, Walter. "Painter and His Identity: Spontaneity and Contemplation in Philip Guston Show." St. Louis Post-Dispatch, February 13, 1966, illus. in b&w, image reproduced upside down
- Ashton, Dore. "Art." Arts & Architecture, April 1966, illus. in b&w p. 6
- First Flint Invitational. Exh. cat. Flint: Flint Institute, 1966, cat. no. 46
- Painting as Painting. Exh. cat. Austin: University of Texas, Art Museum, 1968, cat. no. 27, not illus.
- Hakanson, Joy. "Hakanson: Guston bridges the 'gap.'" Detroit News, March 1973, mentioned in text, not illus.
- Philip Guston: Major Paintings of the Sixties. Exh. cat. Detroit: Gertrude Kasle Gallery, 1973, unnumbered brochure, not illus., shown as "May"
- Stubborn Painting: Now & Then. Exh. cat. New York: Max Protetch Gallery, 1991, illus. in b&w
- Reed, David. "Soul-Beating." Art Journal 69, no. 4 (2010): pp. 96–107, mentioned in text p. 97, not illus.
- Micchelli, Thomas. "Flesh and Bones: Philip Guston's 'Thingness.'" Hyperallergic, April 30, 2016. Online, mentioned in text, not illus.
- Alexander, Stephen. "Philip Guston at Hauser & Wirth." Stephen Alexander Journal. Blog. May 1, 2016, illus. in color
- Smith, Roberta. "Abstract Expressionism's Restless Mutineer." The New York Times, May 13, 2016, section Weekend Arts II, p. C24, mentioned in text, not illus.
- Liebman, Kate. "Reflections on Philip Guston: Philip Guston: Painter, 1957–1967." Brooklyn Rail, June 2016, section Artseen, p. 54, not illus.
- Griffin, Nora. "Philip Guston: Burning the Midnight Oil." Brooklyn Rail, June 3, 2016, section Artseen. Online, mentioned in text, not illus.
- Pardee, Hearne. "Roundtable: Philip Guston at Hauser & Wirth." Artcritical, June 9, 2016. Online, mentioned in text, not illus.
- Eaton, William. "Guston, Schapiro, Rosenberg,...Dialogue." Zeteo Journal, July 13, 2016. Online, illus. in color
- Philip Guston: Painter 1957–1967. Exh. cat. New York: Hauser & Wirth, 2016, illus. in color p. 93
- Philip Guston: Nixon Drawings 1971 & 1975. Exh. cat. Essays by Musa Mayer and Debra Bricker-Balken. Zurich: Hauser & Wirth, 2017, illus. in color Fig. 6 p. 27
- Mcllhagga, Samuel. "Philip Guston's Controversial Embrace of Figuration Still Shapes His Market." Artsy, November 3, 2020. Online, illus. in color
- Mayer, Musa. Philip Guston. London: Laurence King Publishing, 2020, illus. in color p. 44 and mentioned in text p. 43
