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PHILIP GUSTON (1913-1980).

Currency:GBP Category:Collectibles Start Price:NA Estimated At:1,200.00 - 1,800.00 GBP
PHILIP GUSTON (1913-1980).

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Cartoonish drawing (6x6 inches with signature) by Philip Guston, signed, Mounted, framed and supplied with coa.


Hooded Ku Klux Klan figures first appeared in Guston’s works in the early 1930s in portable murals that depicted the widespread violence against African Americans. Prompted in part by the violence and civil strife of the late 1960s, Guston returned to the subject in City Limits and other paintings. “They are self-portraits,” he reflected. “I perceive myself as being behind the hood. . . . The idea of evil fascinated me. . . . I almost tried to imagine that I was living with the Klan. What would it be like to be evil?” The principal story told here is that of an America run afoul of its democratic promise. Guston refused to exempt himself from responsibility: in other paintings, he depicted an artist in Klan robes at his easel.