A dark form massed at the center that reads as both an easel and a figure mid-motion, set in a shimmering field of grey, blue, pink, and a red flare at the top. Painted in 1959, before the break toward the hooded figures. Philip Guston, oil on canvas, 65 x 69 inches (High Museum of Art, Atlanta). Met on loan at the Philip Guston Now retrospective.
Grows from
- Philip Guston - the seed this grows from. The late-abstract Guston, the side of him nearer my axis than the hooded figures. The one canvas in the whole show that actually held me, the same pull as To B.W.T..
First seen
- Museum of Fine Arts Boston · September 2022, in Philip Guston Now.