Lot #697: PHILIP GUSTON - Untitled - Charcoal and ink drawing on paper

 

Artist: Philip Guston (Canadian-American, 1913 - 1980).
Title: "Untitled".
Medium: Charcoal and ink drawing on paper.
Date: Composed 1968.
Dimensions: Overall size: 8 1/4 x 11 1/8 in. (210 x 283 mm).
Lot Note(s): Signed and dated, lower right. Light cream wove paper. Very good to fine condition; minor creasing upper right corner well away from image, else fine. Comment(s): Guston was a painter and printmaker in the New York School, which included many of the abstract expressionists, such as Jackson Pollock and Willem De Kooning. In the late 1960s Guston helped to lead a transition from abstract expressionism to neo-expressionism in painting, abandoning the so-called "pure abstraction" of abstract expressionism in favor of more cartoonish renderings of various personal symbols and objects. [29811-2-14000]