A Memoir of Philip Guston (new edition)

‘Night Studio‘ is a memoir of Philip Guston, written by his daughter Musa Mayer.

Mayer, manages the estate of Philip Guston and is president of The Guston Foundation. She has curated exhibitions of Guston’s work and written books including the memoir ‘Night Studio’, first published by Alfred A. Knopf in 1988.

Philip Guston in 1971

“I see now how it feels to do something new and original,” Philip Guston wrote to his friend the poet Bill Berkson in October 1970.

His large paintings of hooded figures were on view for the first time, and the art world was shocked. Why would an artist celebrated for his elegant abstractions risk his career?

Published in conjunction with an exhibition at Hauser & Wirth Los Angeles, the artist’s daughter, Musa Mayer, offers an intimate view of her father’s state of mind.

This catalogue presents an unusual selection of Philip Guston’s paintings and works on paper dating from the early 1950’s through to the late 1970’s.

This selection presents an insight into the mechanics of his mind and method, clearly charting his development of a new way of seeing from abstraction through to a ground-breaking artistic inventory of forms.

Featuring a selection of three drawings and seven paintings, this title allows access to the work that Philip Guston created since the end of the 60s.

This catalogue provides an intimate discussion around a carefully selected group of works from Guston’s oeuvre.