Couple in Bed
Philip Guston · 1977 · Art Institute of Chicago
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An established painter of some of the most poetic Abstract Expressionist painting of the late 1950s, Guston gradually abandoned abstraction in the 1960s in favor of seemingly crude, cartoonish, images drawn from memory. In Couple in Bed, Guston lays in bed with his wife, Musa, their faces pressed together as one in the manner of Brancusi's The Kiss. Here the artist holds his brushes as tightly as he does his wife, who in May of 1977 suffered a series of debilitating strokes.
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Details
- Maker
- Philip Guston, American, born Canada, 1913–1980
- Date
- 1977
- Medium
- Oil on canvas
- Dimensions
- 206.2 × 240.3 cm (81 1/8 × 94 5/8 in.)
- Place of origin
- United States
- Held by
- Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago · Not on view
- Credit line
- Through prior bequest of Frances W. Pick, and memorial gift from her daughter, Mary P. Hines