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| Image | Sale date | Auction house | Location | Sale name | Lot No. | Estimate | Price Sold | Condition | Title |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Nov 11, 2008 | Sotheby's | New York | Contemporary Art Evening Sale | 30 | $****** - ****** | Beggar's joys | |||
Nov 20, 1996 | Christie's | New York | Contemporary Art from the Boris Leavitt Collection | 4 | $****** - ****** | Beggar's joys |
paintings
180.7 x 173.1 cm (71.14 x 68.15 in)
oil on canvas
signed, titled and dated '1954-55', verso
Sidney Janis Gallery, New York Boris and Sophie Leavitt, Hanover
Christie's, New York, Contemporary Art from the Boris Leavitt Collection, November 20, 1996, lot 4
Acquired by the present owner from the above
New York, The Museum of Modern Art, 12 Americans, May September 1956, p. 41, illustrated Saõ Paulo, IV Bienal do Museu de Arte Moderna de Saõ Paulo, United States Pavilion, September 1957 Basel, Kunsthalle; Milan, Galleria Civica d'Arte Moderna; Madrid, Museo Nacional de Arte Contemporáneo; Berlin, Hochschule für Bildende Künste; Amsterdam, Stedelijk Museum; Brussels, Palais des Beaux-Arts; Paris, Musée National d'Art Moderne; London, The Tate Gallery; New York, The Museum of Modern Art, The New American Painting As Shown in Eight European Countries, April 1958 September 1959, p. 43, cat. no. 26, illustrated New York, The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum; Amsterdam, Stedelijk Museum; Brussels, Musée des Beaux-Arts; London, Whitechapel Art Gallery; Los Angeles, County Museum of Art, Philip Guston, May 1962 June 1963, cat. no. 25, p. 62, illustrated Fort Lauderdale Art Center; Memphis, Brooks Memorial Art Gallery; Jacksonville, Cummer Gallery of Art; Wilmington, Delaware Art Center; East Lansing, Michigan State University; Evansville, Evansville Public Museum; Roanoke Fine Arts Center; Vancouver Art Gallery; Fredericton, Beaverbrook Art Gallery; Kingston, Queen's University; Regina, Norman MacKensie Art Gallery; St. John's, University of Newfoundland; London Public Library and Art Museum; Victoria, Art Gallery of Greater Victoria, American Impressionists: Two Generations, October 1963 May 1965, cat. no. 12 Waltham, Brandeis University, Rose Art Museum, Philip Guston, A Selective Retrospective Exhibition: 1945 1965, February March 1966, cat. no. 10 Tokyo, National Museum of Art; Kyoto, National Museum of Modern Art; Melbourne, National Gallery of Victoria; Sydney, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Two Decades of American Painting, October 1966 January 1967, cat. no. 25, illustrated (Australia catalogue) San Francisco, Museum of Modern Art; Washington D.C., Corcoran Gallery of Art; Chicago, Museum of Contemporary Art; The Denver Art Museum; New York, Whitney Museum of American Art, Philip Guston, May 1980 September 1981, cat. no. 25, pl. 17, p. 61, illustrated Fort Worth, Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth; San Francisco Museum of Modern Art; New York, The Metropolitan Museum of Art; London, Royal Academy of Arts, Philip Guston Retrospective, March 2003 April 2004, cat. no. 37, illustrated in color
Dore Ashton, Philip Guston, New York, 1960, p. 22, illustrated Dore Ashton, A Critical Study of Philip Guston, Berkeley and Los Angeles, 1976, fig. no. 112, p. 107, illustrated. Robert Storr, Philip Guston, New York, 1986, p. 39 and illustrated in color on the frontispiece
