Lithograph on cream wove paper, 1966. 519x727 mm; 20 1/2x28 5/8 inches, full margins. Signed, dated and numbered 4/20 in pencil, lower margin. Printed and published by Hollander's Workshop Inc., New York, with the blind stamp lower right. A superb impression of this very scarce, early lithograph.
When he returned to New York in the 1950s, he renewed his friendship with Pollock, as well as Adolph Gottlieb and Willem de Kooning, and began painting in a looser, more expressionist style. Guston's lithographs from the 1960s reflect the imagery of his painting and drawings from this time; they seem to represent still lifes--like the present work--drawn with bold, gestural strokes not unlike Pollock's Black Paintings from the early 1950s (see lots 1-3).
