Philip Guston, Smoking II

signed "Philip Guston" lower right; further signed, titled and dated "PHILIP GUSTON "SMOKING II". 1973" on the reverse
oil on canvas
39 1/2 x 67 3/8 in. (100.3 x 171 cm.)
Painted in 1973.

Provenance:
Grace Hartigan and Dr. Winston Price, Baltimore (acquired directly from the artist)
Christie's, New York, November 11, 1982, lot 139
Edward F. Broida, Los Angeles
McKee Gallery, New York
Acquired from the above by the present owner in 2003

Exhibited:
Boston, School of Fine & Applied Arts Gallery, Boston University, Philip Guston: New Paintings, March 15 - April 14, 1974, no. 17, n.p.
Columbus, University Gallery of Fine Art, Ohio State University, Painters' Painters: Milton Avery, Philip Guston, Giorgio Morandi, March 26 - April 15, 1984, no. 11, n.p. (titled as Smoker II)
Winter Park, The George D. and Harriet W. Cornell Fine Arts Museum, Bizarro World! The Parallel Universe of Comics & Fine Arts, March 17 - April 30, 2000, no. 65, p. 22 (illustrated)
Kunstmuseum Winterthur, Plane/Figure: Amerikanische Kunst aus Schweizer Privatsammlungen und aus dem Kunstmuseum Winterthur / American Art from Swiss Collectors and the Kunstmuseum Winterthur, August 26 - November 19, 2006, no. 65, p. 244 (illustrated, p. 21)

Literature:
Harold Rosenberg and Philip Guston, "Conversations: Philip Guston and Harold Rosenberg: Guston's Recent Paintings", Boston University Journal 22, no. 3, 1974, p. 44
Clark Coolidge, ed., Philip Guston: Collected Writings, Lectures, and Conversations, Berkeley, 2011, p. 269

A Discerning Vision Property from an Important Private Collection