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PHILIP GUSTON
Untitled (Self Portrait with a Cigarette,Painting)
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Pen and blue ink on the title page of
Yes,
but …A Critical Study of Philip Guston
by
Dore Ashton, 1976. 255x204 mm; 10x8
inches (sheet). Signed, dated“79,” inscribed
“San Francisco” and dedicated in pen and
blue ink.
Guston painted a similar self portrait,
In the
Studio
, 1975,which shows him in profile to
the right with a cigarette, staring at his easel.
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FRITZ GLARNER
Drawing for Relational Painting
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Lithograph, 1958. 157x366 mm; 6
1
/
4
x14
1
/
2
inches, full margins. Signed, dated and
numbered 3/12 in pencil, lower margin. Published by ULAE,West Islip, with the blind
stamp lower left. A very good impression of this extremely scarce, early lithograph.
Born in Switzerland and educated in Italy, Glarner (1899-1972) was a member of the
American Abstract Artists, which he joined on moving to NewYork with his wife in 1936.
Glarner developed and employed a theory of abstraction that he called Relational Painting.
His theory explored the relationship of simplified color use (blue, yellow, red, and gradations
of gray) and compositional constraint (mostly through trapezoids). His paintings and prints
especially recall the work of the de Stijl painter Piet Mondrian. Sparks 2.
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