Artwork Description
Philip Guston – Rug
Dimensions: 19.5 x 29″ paper / 19.5 x 29″ plate
Year: 1980
Medium: lithograph on Rives BFK paper
Edition: ed. 28/50
PHILIP GUSTON (1913-1980)
Rug
lithograph, on Rives BFK paper, 1980, signed, titled and dated in pencil, numbered 28/50 (there were also eleven artist’s proofs). Philip Guston’s Rug lithograph is one of the last lithographs he created during his lifetime. It is printed on Rives BFK paper, 1980, signed, titled and dated in pencil, numbered 28/50 (there were also eleven artist’s proofs).
Rug belongs to a suite of 25 lithographs done by Guston. It is one of the final deeply brooding ruminations on Guston’s personal life. Philip Guston is one of the most well known artists in the world, with his solo exhibition traveling to major museums throughout the U.S. and abroad. Rug is included in the permanent collection of The Whitney Museum of American Art, and he has had solo exhibitions at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Boston Museum of Fine Arts, Tate Modern in London, and numerous others.