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P58.002

To Fellini, 1958
Oil on canvas
69 x 74 in.
175.3 x 188.0 cm
Signed front lower left: Philip Guston
Provenance
Collection Unknown
Private Collection
Richard Manoogian Collection, Grosse Point
Nelson A. Rockefeller Collection, New York
Exhibitions
Sidney Janis Gallery, New York, NY, "29 Recent Paintings by Philip Guston", December 28, 1959 - January 23, 1960 
Harpur College, Vestal, NY, "Paintings from the Collection of Nelson A. Rockefeller", April 1960
US Pavilion at La Biennale di Venezia, Venice , Italy, "Quattro Artisti Americani: Guston, Hofmann, Kline, Roszak, XXX Biennale Venezia", June 18, 1960 - October 16, 1960
Hathorn Gallery, Skidmore College, Saratoga Springs, NY, "Selections from the Collection of Governor Nelson A. Rockefeller", 1961
Memorial Art Gallery, Rochester, NY, "Paintings and Sculptures from the Collection of Governor Nelson A. Rockefeller", circa January - February 1961
Colby College Museum of Art, Waterville, ME, "Contemporary Painting and Sculpture from the Home of Governor Nelson Rockefeller at Seal Harbor", April 17, 1961 - May 13, 1961
Atlanta Art Association, Atlanta, GA, "Paintings from the Collection of Governor and Mrs. Nelson A. Rockefeller", 1962
Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, NY, "Philip Guston", May 03, 1962 - July 01, 1962  Travelled to:
Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, Netherlands, "Philip Guston", September 20, 1962 - October 15, 1962
Whitechapel Gallery, London, England, "Philip Guston", January 16, 1963 - February 17, 1963
Palais des Beaux-Arts, Brussels, Belgium, "Philip Guston", March 01, 1963 - March 24, 1963
Los Angeles County Museum, Los Angeles, CA, "Philip Guston", May 22, 1963 - June 30, 1963
Munson-Williams-Proctor Arts Institute Museum of Art, Utica, NY, "Selections from the Collection of Governor Nelson A. Rockefeller", December 01, 1962 - December 23, 1962
Plymouth State College, Plymouth, NH, "Contemporary Paintings from the Collection of Governor Nelson A. Rockefeller", 1964
Huntington Gallery, Huntington, WV, "Paintings from the Collection of Governor Nelson A. Rockefeller", 1965
SUNY Oneonta, Oneonta, NY, "Paintings from the Nelson A. Rockefeller Collection", 1965
Rose Art Museum, Brandeis University, Waltham, MA, "Philip Guston, A Selective Retrospective Exhibition: 1945-1965", February 27, 1966 - March 27, 1966 
National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan, "Two Decades of American Painting", October 15, 1966 - November 27, 1966 Travelled to:
National Museum of Modern Art, Kyoto, Kyoto, Japan, "Two Decades of American Painting", December 10, 1966 - January 22, 1967
Lalit Kala Gallery, New Delhi, India, "Two Decades of American Painting", March 28, 1967 - April 16, 1967
National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, Australia, "Two Decades of American Painting", June 06, 1967 - July 09, 1967
Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia, "Two Decades of American Painting", July 17, 1967 - August 13, 1967
Everson Museum of Art, Syracuse, NY, "Selections from the Collection of Nelson A. Rockefeller from Albany and Seal Harbor, Maine", December 1968
North Shore Community Art Center, Great Neck, NY, "A Representative Selection of Governor Nelson A. Rockefeller's Contemporary Art Collection", 1969
Grace Gallery, New York City Community College, Brooklyn, NY, "The Works of Six Prominent Contemporary Artists: from the Collection of the Honorable Nelson A. Rockefeller", 1969
The Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY, "Twentieth-Century Art from the Nelson Aldrich Rockefeller Collection", May 28, 1969 - September 01, 1969
State University Agricultural and Technical College, Alfred, NY, "Twentieth Century Art from the Collection of Governor Nelson A. Rockefeller", February 09, 1970 - February 21, 1970
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
Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, Fort Worth, TX, "Philip Guston Retrospective", March 30, 2003 - June 08, 2003  Travelled to:
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA, "Philip Guston Retrospective", June 28, 2003 - September 27, 2003
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY, "Philip Guston Retrospective", October 27, 2003 - January 04, 2004
Royal Academy of Arts, London, England, "Philip Guston Retrospective", January 24, 2004 - April 12, 2004
L&M Arts, New York, NY, "Philip Guston 1954-1958", January 15, 2009 - February 28, 2009 
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Breeskin, Adelyn. "Trois Peintres Americains." L'Oeil, July–August 1960, pp. 54–59, illus. in b&w p. 57
Quattro Artisti Americani: Guston, Hofmann, Kline, Roszak, XXX Biennale Venezia. Exh. cat. Washington, D.C.: Baltimore Museum of Art, 1960, cat. no. 8, illus. in b&w p. 31
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Philip Guston Tableaux / Paintings 1947 - 1979. Exh. cat. Ostfildern: Hatje Cantz Publishers, 2000, mentioned in text p. 23
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Selvin, Claire. "Figuration to Abstraction and Back Again: How Philip Guston Shaped 20th-Century Painting." ARTnews, July 22, 2020. Online, mentioned in text, not illus.
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Troncy, Eric. "Polémique: pourquoi la rétrospective Philip Guston fait-elle scandale ?" Numéro (Paris), November 19, 2020. Online., mentioned in text, not illus.
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Mayer, Musa. Philip Guston. London: Laurence King Publishing, 2020, illus. in color p. 39 and mentioned in text p. 40
Cooper, Harry, Mark Godfrey, Alison de Lima Greene, and Kate Nesin. Philip Guston Now. Exh. cat. Washington D.C.: National Gallery of Art, 2020, mentioned in text p. 189, not illus.
Harris, Gareth. "Philip Guston's painting could make $30m, potentially breaking the artist's auction record." Art Newspaper, April 4, 2022. Online, mentioned in text, not illus.
Villa, Angelica. "$30 M. Philip Guston Painting Could Set Auction Record Amid Long-Awaited Retrospective." ARTnews, April 4, 2022. Online, mentioned in text as "Fellini," not illus.
Schultz, Abby. "Sotheby's to Offer Rare Guston Ab-Ex Painting." Penta (New York), April 4, 2022. Online, mentioned in text, not illus.
Il Giornale dell'Arte (Turin). "Giorno per giorno nell'arte." April 5, 2022. Online, mentioned in text, not illus.
Crema, Elio. "Philip Guston: dalla travagliata retrospettiva al nuovo probabile record in asta." ArtsLife (Milan), April 5, 2022. Online., mentioned in text as "Fellini," not illus.
Rea, Naomi. "Will the Contentious Opening of a Philip Guston Show Hurt or Help the Artist's Market? We Parsed the Auction Data to Find Out." artnet News, April 12, 2022. Online, mentioned in text as "Fellini", not illus.
Coolidge, Clark, ed. Philip Guston: Que peindre sinon l'énigme. Translated by Éric Suchère. Strasbourg: L'Atelier Contemporain, 2023, illus. in color no. 65 (unpaginated)