Philip Guston : The Irony of History

The companion book to the  Musée National Picasso-Paris' 2025/6 show dedicated to the American painter Philip Guston

This handsome book brings together together a group of figurative works and drawings made by the artist responding to to Philip Roth's book Our Gang (1971). Through around 150 works by Guston together with Philip Roth's text, it shows the satirical verve of Guston’s painting as well as a form of political commitment rooted in his discovery of Picasso’s Guernica, surrealism and Mexican muralism in the late 1930s.

Supported by the Philip Guston Foundation and the artist's daughter Musa Meyer, who have entrusted the museum with the Nixon drawings series, as well as never-seen-before works, the exhibition will offer a precise look at Guston's work from the 1940s to the end of his life.

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