Philip Guston

At the end of the 1940s and throughout the 1950s the American painter Philip Guston was a highly respected member of the Abstract Expressionist circle of painters in New York. But in his late work – from around 1968 and up to his death in 1980 – he changed his idiom and abandoned abstraction in favour of a strikingly figurative, almost comic-strip-like idiom. Today Guston stands as an almost indispensable reference for understanding the narrative tendency that has typified visual art of the last decade.

Philip Guston