Philip Guston, Early Mail Service and Construction of Railroads (mural study, Commerce, Georgia Post Office)

Philip Guston

American · 1913–1980 · Painter, Printmaker

Philip Guston was a Canadian and American painter, printmaker, muralist and draftsman. "Guston worked in a number of artistic modes, from Renaissance-inspired figuration to… (Wikipedia)

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  1. Philip Guston, Smoking II, 1973, oil on canvasSmoking IIPhillips · $7,657,500≈ £5,963,321≈ €6,963,263Sign up to see
  2. Philip Guston, At the Table, 1969, acrylic on panelAt the TablePhillips · $2,180,000≈ £1,697,687≈ €1,982,359Sign up to see
  3. Philip Guston, Lemonade and Doughnuts, 1943, oil on canvasLemonade and DoughnutsPhillips · $457,200≈ £365,292≈ €420,182Sign up to see

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Philip Guston was a Canadian and American painter, printmaker, muralist and draftsman. "Guston worked in a number of artistic modes, from Renaissance-inspired figuration to formally accomplished abstraction," and is now regarded as one of the "most important, powerful, and influential American painters of the last 100 years". He frequently depicted racism, antisemitism, fascism and American identity, as well as—especially in his later most cartoonish and mocking work—the banality of evil. In 2013, Guston's painting To Fellini set an auction record at Christie's when it sold for US$25.8 million.

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Born 1913, MontrealDied 1980, WoodstockOccupation Painter, Printmaker, Draughtsman, IllustratorWikidata Q701952 ↗ULAN 500023901 ↗Museum works 1

abstract expressionismneo-expressionism

Also known as Philip Goldstein, Phillip (birth name - used before 1935) Goldstein, Phillip Goldstein, The Estate of Philip Guston

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Philip Guston, Early Mail Service and Construction of Railroads (mural study, Commerce, Georgia Post Office)
Early Mail Service and Construction of Railroads (mural study, Commerce, Georgia Post Office)1938
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Artist record compiled from: Wikidata (CC0), Getty ULAN (ODC-By), National Gallery of Art open data (CC0), Art Institute of Chicago API (CC0), The Met Open Access (CC0). See data sources & attribution.

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