Sep Ancient Art & Paintings & Collectibles
Lot 264:
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Image Size: 20 5/16 by 14 3/8 inches (52 by 36.7 cm) All measurements are approximate.
Signed (lower right)Philip Guston (born Phillip Goldstein, June 27, 1913 – June 7, 1980) was a Canadian American painter, printmaker, muralist and draftsman. "Guston worked in a number of artistic modes, from Renaissance-inspired figuration to formally accomplished abstraction, "[1] and is now regarded as one of the "most important, powerful, and influential American painters of the last 100 years".Guston-paintings are an evocative amalgam of imagery, his paints them in soft pastel hues, with cartoon-like features that border-precariously-on sweetness, with the levity of cartoon violence. But Guston’s cartoon style is deliberate-meant to ridicule his subject, to render it anonymous and dumb.
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