Frieze Masters
11 – 15 October 2023
We return to Frieze Masters with a presentation that focuses on one of the great luminaries of 20th-century art, Philip Guston (1913 – 1980), coinciding with the major traveling retrospective ‘Philip Guston,’ opening on 5 October 2023 at Tate Modern. The booth will present a selection of important paintings and works on paper by Guston from the early 1950s until the late 1970s, as well as works by modern masters who were working in and around New York at the same time as Guston.
Featured Artworks
‘The painting is not on a surface, but on a plane which is imagined. It moves in a mind. It is not there physically at all. It is an illusion, a piece of magic, so that what you see is not what you see.’
— Philip Guston
The visionary art of Guston spans half a century and continues to exert a powerful influence on contemporary culture today. To celebrate the Tate Modern exhibition, we are delighted to present a selection of works by Guston, including this rarely exhibited early abstract work ‘Ochre Painting I’ (1951), first shown in Guston’s mid-career retrospective in 1962 at the Guggenheim Museum of Art, New York.
The booth will also bring works by modern masters who were working in and around New York at the same time as Guston, including two important sculptures by Louise Bourgeois: ‘Knife Couple’ (1949), an extraordinary work from Louise Bourgeois’s most renowned series, the Personages, which she created between the late 1940s and early 1950s. Other major 20th-century sculptures include a significant early mobile by Alexander Calder, ‘Untitled’ (1939), composed of a combination of delicately interlocking wires and balanced shapes, colors and proportions.
Hauser & Wirth Publishers
Night Studio:
A Memoir of Philip Guston
A new edition of this classic, intimate memoir by Philip Guston’s daughter, Musa Mayer, with a new afterword. Night Studio is both a deeply personal account of growing up in the shadow of a great artist and a daughter’s quest to better understand her father, based on letters, notes and interviews. This richly illustrated new edition is complemented by Mayer’s reflections on the recent reception of Guston’s work and the afterlife of her memoir, first published to critical acclaim in 1988.
Celebrating the world creative capital of contemporary art this Frieze week #LondonCreates