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P79.002

Moon, 1979
Oil on canvas
69 x 80 in.
175.3 x 203.2 cm
Signed front lower right: Philip Guston
Provenance
The Museum of Modern Art, New York. Gift of Philip Johnson
Philip Johnson
Exhibitions
David McKee Gallery, New York, NY, "Philip Guston: Paintings 1978-1979", October 06, 1979 - November 10, 1979 
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA, "Philip Guston, Retrospective 1930 - 1979", May 15, 1980 - June 29, 1980  Travelled to:
Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., "Philip Guston, Retrospective 1930 - 1979", July 20, 1980 - September 09, 1980
Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, Chicago, IL, "Philip Guston, Retrospective 1930 - 1979", November 12, 1980 - January 11, 1981
Denver Art Museum, Denver, CO, "Philip Guston, Retrospective 1930 - 1979", February 25, 1981 - April 26, 1981
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY, "Philip Guston, Retrospective 1930 - 1979", June 24, 1981 - September 13, 1981
Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia, Madrid, Spain, "Philip Guston: Retrospectiva de Pintura", March 01, 1989 - May 08, 1989  Travelled to:
Palau de la Virreina, Barcelona, Spain, "Philip Guston: Retrospectiva de Pintura", May 25, 1989 - July 16, 1989
Saint Louis Art Museum, St. Louis, MO, "Philip Guston: 50 Years of Painting", September 09, 1989 - October 22, 1989
Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas, TX, "Philip Guston: 50 Years of Painting", November 19, 1989 - January 14, 1990
Luhring Augustine, New York, NY, "8 Paintings", May 03, 1997 - June 05, 1997
The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Houston, TX, "The Heroic Century: The Museum of Modern Art Masterpieces, 200 Paintings and Sculptures", September 21, 2003 - January 04, 2004 Travelled to:
Neue Nationalgalerie, Berlin, Germany, "Das MoMA in Berlin: Meisterwerke aus dem Museum of Modern Art, New York", February 20, 2004 - September 19, 2004
The Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY, "Painting and Sculpture: Inaugural Installation", November 20, 2004 - September 17, 2007
The Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY, "The Long Run", November 11, 2017 - November 04, 2018
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Rickey, Carrie. "What Becomes a Legend Most?" Village Voice, October 22, 1979, p. 91, mentioned in text, not illus.
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