Couple in Bed by Philip Guston
Art Institute of Chicago

Couple in Bed

Philip Guston · 1977

Provenance

Ownership history

  1. Estate of the artist; sold through David McKee Gallery, New York, to the Art Institute of Chicago, Sept. 11, 1989.

Recorded by Art Institute of Chicago.

Exhibitions

Exhibition history

  • Madrid, Centro de Arte Reina Sofia, Philip Guston: Retrospectiva de Pintura, Mar. 1–May 8, 1989, cat. 52; Barcelona, Palau de la Virreina, May 25–July 16 1989; St. Louis Art Museum, as Philip Guston: 50 Years of Painting, Sept. 9–Oct. 22, 1989; Dallas Museum of Art, Nov. 19, 1989–Jan. 14, 1990.
  • Fort Worth, Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, Philip Guston Retrospective, Mar. 30– June 8, 2003, cat. 108; San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, June 28–Sept. 28, 2003; New York, Metropolitan Museum of Art, Oct. 27, 2003–Jan, 4, 2004; London, Royal Academy of Arts, Jan. 21–Apr. 12, 2004.
  • Boston, Museum of Fine Arts Boston, Philip Guston Now, July 17, 2021-Oct. 17, 2021 (delayed to May 1, 2022-Sept. 11, 2022), cat. 160; Houston, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Oct. 18, 2020-Jan. 18, 2021 (delayed to Oct. 23, 2022-Jan. 16, 2023); Washington D.C., National Gallery of Art, June 7, 2020-Sept. 13, 2020 (delayed to Mar. 2, 2023-Aug. 27, 2023); London, Tate Modern, Feb. 16, 2021-June 13, 2021 (delayed to Oct. 3, 2023-Feb. 25, 2024). (Original 2020 dates delayed due to the COVID-19 pandemic).

Literature

Published references

  • Robert Storr, Modern Masters: Philip Guston (Abbeville Press, 1986), 86, fig. 90 (ill.).
  • Musa Mayer, Night Studio: A Memoir of Philip Guston (New York: Knopf, 1988), 131, 147, no. 53 (color ill.).
  • Francisco Calvo Serraller, "Abierta en Madrid una retrospectiva de Guston: En Centro Reina Sofia expone 70 obras del artista que paso del expresionismo abstracto a la figuracion" El País, Mar. 2, 1989, https://elpais.com/diario/1989/03/02/cultura/604796404_850215.html
  • Mark Rosenthal, Philip Guston: retrospectiva de pintura, exh. cat. (Madrid: Centro de Arte Reina Sofia, 1989), 128, cat. 52 (color ill.).
  • Saint Louis Art Museum, Philip Guston: 50 Years of Painting, exh. pamphlet (St. Louis: Saint Louis Art Museum, 1989), n.p., (color ill.).
  • Musa Mayer, Night Studio: A Memoir of Philip Guston (New York: Knopf, 1990), 131, 147, no. 53 (color ill.).
  • Musa Mayer, Night Studio: A Memoir of Philip Guston (New York: Knopf, 1991), 131, 147, no. 53 (color ill.).
  • Charles F. Stuckey, “Selected Recent Acquisitions of Twentieth-Century Art at The Art Institute of Chicago: Supplement,” The Burlington Magazine 135, no. 1087 (Oct. 1993): 727 (ill.).
  • William Corbett, Philip Guston's Late Work: A Memoir (Boston: Zoland Books, 1994), 99.
  • Peter-Klaus Schuster, Helen Adkins, George Grosz: Berlin, New York, exh. cat. (Berlin: Ars Nicolai and Neue Nationalgalerie, 1994), 37, abb. 36 (ill.).
  • James N. Wood and Teri J. Edelstein, The Art Institute of Chicago: Twentieth-Century Painting and Sculpture (Chicago: The Art Institute of Chicago, 1996), 142 (color ill.)
  • Musa Mayer, Night Studio: A Memoir of Philip Guston (New York: Knopf, 1997), 131, 147, no. 53 (color ill.).

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