“I should like to paint like an man who has never seen a painting, but this man – myself – lives in a museum.”

— Phillip Guston

Abstract Expressionism, David Anfam, Thames and Hudson Ltd London, 1990, p. 207
1961 - 1980

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American artist 1913–1980

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