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Philip Guston 1913-1980 American Oil on Canvas

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Philip Guston 1913-1980 American Oil on Canvas
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Oil on canvas, painting featuring hooded figures. Signed and attr. Philip Guston (American, 1913–1980, Montreal, Canada, based in New York, New York). 15.5 x 21 inch (39.5 x 53.5 cm). Best known for his cartoonish paintings and drawings from the late 1960s onwards, Philip Guston audaciously returned to figuration at the height of Abstract Expressionism. Guston created a lively cast of characters rendered in bold brushwork—sinister, hooded figures reminiscent of the Ku Klux Klan; cyclopean heads; and disembodied limbs. Seemingly mundane objects, such as bare light bulbs, shoes, cigarettes, and bricks were also imbued with personal meaning. A muralist with the government-funded Federal Art Project in the 1930s, an Abstract Expressionist in the 1950s and ‘60s, and a figurative painter in the last decades of his life, Guston is regarded as a leading figure in the creation of a new style of painting known as Neo-Expressionism. PROVENANCE: Private collection (Toronto, ON, Canada)