Philip Guston

(American, 1913–1980)

Philip Guston was an iconic American painter whose works transitioned from Abstract Expressionism into an idiosyncratic lexicon of painterly forms and a cartoonish figures. “The painting is not on a surface, but on a plane which is imagined,” he once reflected. “It moves in a mind. It is not there physically at all. It is an illusion, a piece of magic, so that what you see is not what you see.” Born Philip Goldstein on June 27, 1913 in Montreal, Canada to Ukranian-Jewish immigrant parents, he grew up in California, where he attended the Los Angeles Manual Arts High School with Jackson Pollock. Moving to New York, Guston was enrolled in the Works Progress Administration during the 1930s, where he produced works inspired by the Mexican Muralists and Italian Renaissance paintings. He went on to become an integral part of the city’s art scene in the 1950s, alongside Willem de Kooning and his former classmate Pollock. Guston famously abandoned the success and dialogue he had with abstraction in the late 1960s, resulting in the loss of his gallery representation and virulent scorn from critics. However, it is the artist’s late work that has proven to be his most lasting contribution to art history. Featuring recurring imagery such as hooded Klansmen, Richard Nixon, smoldering cigarettes, and huge eyeballs, works such as In the Studio (1975), influenced generations of painters and established Guston in the canon of 20th-century art. He died on June 7, 1980 in Woodstock, NY. Today, the artist's works can be found in the collections of The Museum of Modern Art in New York, the Art Institute of Chicago, and the Tate Gallery in London, among others.

Philip Guston Artworks

Philip Guston (933 results)

Untitled (from A Suite of Ten Lithographs), 1966

Philip Guston

Untitled (from A Suite of Ten Lithographs), 1966

Sale Date: November 15, 2012

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Untitled, 1979

Philip Guston

Untitled, 1979

Sale Date: November 15, 2012

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Untitled (Hood), 1970

Philip Guston

Untitled (Hood), 1970

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Door, 1981

Philip Guston

Sale Date: November 5, 2012

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Untitled, 1971

Philip Guston

Untitled, 1971

Sale Date: November 14, 2012

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Untitled (Portrait of a woman)

Philip Guston

Untitled (Portrait of a woman)

Sale Date: November 4, 2012

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Tony and Pete, 1945

Philip Guston

Tony and Pete, 1945

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Untitled (Forio cityscape), 1949

Philip Guston

Untitled (Forio cityscape), 1949

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Study for The Gladiators, 1940

Philip Guston

Study for The Gladiators, 1940

Sale Date: November 4, 2012

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Car, 1980

Philip Guston

Sale Date: November 1, 2012

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Elements, 1980

Philip Guston

Elements, 1980

Sale Date: November 1, 2012

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Agean, 1980

Philip Guston

Sale Date: November 1, 2012

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Sea Group, 1980

Philip Guston

Sea Group, 1980

Sale Date: November 1, 2012

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Untitled #11 (open washes), 1966

Philip Guston

Untitled #11 (open washes), 1966

Sale Date: June 14, 2012

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Untitled (from A Suite of Ten..., 1950–1959

Philip Guston

Untitled (from A Suite of Ten..., 1950–1959

Sale Date: June 12, 2012

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Street (from Ten Lithographs by Ten Artists), 1970

Philip Guston

Street (from Ten Lithographs by Ten Artists), 1970

Sale Date: June 12, 2012

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Untitled #11 (Open Washes), 1966

Philip Guston

Untitled #11 (Open Washes), 1966

Sale Date: June 12, 2012

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Untitled (from A Suite of Ten Lithographs), 1966

Philip Guston

Untitled (from A Suite of Ten Lithographs), 1966

Sale Date: June 12, 2012

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Inside, 1969

Philip Guston

Sale Date: May 10, 2012

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Untitled (Drawing from the Phlebitis Series), 1975

Philip Guston

Untitled (Drawing from the Phlebitis Series), 1975

Sale Date: May 9, 2012

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Untitled, 1980

Philip Guston

Untitled, 1980

Sale Date: May 9, 2012

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Untitled, 1960

Philip Guston

Untitled, 1960

Sale Date: May 9, 2012

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Studio Forms, 1980

Philip Guston

Studio Forms, 1980

Sale Date: April 25, 2012

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Untitled, 1973

Philip Guston

Untitled, 1973

Sale Date: February 9, 2012

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