Philip Guston's 'Nile' to Hit Auction for the First Time

In May, Philip Guston's seminal 1958 painting Nile will hit auction for the first time. Created at the height of the artist's abstract period of the late-1950s, the painting represents Guston's most radical period of transformation. While his fellow Abstract Expressionists experimented with immersive canvases and gestural brushstrokes, Guston was meticulously focused on the picture plane -- creating a technique that forged a new painterly intensity."In Nile, Guston's incredible sensitivities to ...