LOT DETAILS

Materials:

ink on paper

Size Notes:

29.2 x 40.6 cm (11 1/2 x 15 7/8 in.)

Edition:

Executed circa 1950.

Description:

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Markings:

signed 'Philip Guston' lower right

Condition:

This work has not been examined out of its frame. The work is framed in a silver wooden frame under Plexiglas, presented float-mounted in a window mount, attached to its backing in places on the reverse. The sheet is discoloured, inherent to the age and is very lightly undulating deemed inherent to the mounting method. The upper horizontal and vertical edges of the sheet are deckled and there are linear surface markings along the edges with very faint marks to the upper horiztonal edge, deemed inherent to a historic mounting method. There is minor bumping to the lower left vertical edge and upper right horizontal edge, two faint creases (each approx. 2.5 cm in length), one to the centre right vertical edge and one to the upper left vertical edge, all only visible on close inspection. Otherwise, there are no apparent condition issues with this work.

Exhibited:

Amsterdam, Jewish Historical Museum, Philip Guston: An Abstract Artist's Return to the Figurative, November - March 2014, n.p. (illustrated)

Provenance:

Collection of Renate Ponsold Motherwell, Greenwich<br />McKee Gallery, New York<br />Private Collection, Europe (acquired from the above)<br />Christie's, New York, 16 November 2017, lot 607<br />Acquired at the above sale by the present owner