Catalogue Raisonné

P77.018

Black Sea, 1977
Oil on canvas
68⅛ x 117 in.
173.0 x 297.2 cm
Signed front lower right: Philip Guston
Provenance
Tate, London, Purchased 1982
Exhibitions
Hayward Gallery, London, England, "New Painting/New York", May 03, 1979 - June 17, 1979
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA, "Philip Guston, Retrospective 1930 - 1979", May 15, 1980 - June 29, 1980  Travelled to:
Whitechapel Gallery, London, England, "Philip Guston: Paintings 1969 - 1980", October 13, 1982 - December 12, 1982  Travelled to:
Tate Gallery, London, England, "Forty Years of Modern Art 1945-1985", February 19, 1986 - April 27, 1986
Neues Museum Weserburg, Bremen, Germany, "Picasso, Guston, Miro, de Kooning: In vollkommener Freiheit, Painting for themselves: Late Works", October 20, 1996 - February 07, 1997
Tate Liverpool, Liverpool , England, "Philip Guston: Paintings and Prints from the Tate Collection", March 09, 2002 - August 18, 2002 
Museum moderner Kunst Stiftung Ludwig Wien - MUMOK, Vienna, Austria, "Bad Painting - good art", June 06, 2008 - October 12, 2008
Inverleith House, Edinburgh, Scotland, "Philip Guston (1913 - 1980): Late Paintings", July 25, 2012 - October 07, 2012 
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Boston, MA, "Philip Guston Now", May 01, 2022 - September 11, 2022  Travelled to:
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