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Published to coincide with the exhibition "Philip Guston: The Painter, 1957-1967" at Hauser & Wirth New York, April 26 to July 30, 2016.

About the Author

Philip Guston (1913-1980) is one of the outstanding figures in twentieth century American art. Beginning as a muralist in the thirties, Guston embraced the lyrical vocabulary of Abstract Expressionism in his paintings and drawings after his move to the East Coast. Following an artistic crisis in the mid-sixties, his return to figuration - focusing first on simple things of ordinary life, later evolving to the enigmatic and iconic cartoonlike forms for which he is now best known - shook the art world.