Signed Philip Guston (Canadian/American, 1913-1980). 'Summer', artists proof lithograph, depicting a grouping of cherries. Marked lower left, a.p. 3/10, signed lower right Philip Guston, in pencil. Guston studied at the Los Angeles School of Art alongside Jackson Pollock. His first works, made in the United States, are related to his political commitment to the Marxist ideal. In 1934, he created a painting in Morelia, Mexico, dedicated to ‘workers fighting for freedom’. In the late 1930's his influences included Max Beckmann and Pablo Picasso, and he abandoned realism in favor of allegory. He won the Carnegie Prize in 1945, but disappointed his early admirers by making his conversion to abstraction after joining the New York avant-garde scene. There, he reunited with Pollock and befriended Mark Rothko, Barnett Newman and Franz Kline. At the same time, he discovered Far Eastern philosophy and aesthetics, and his paintings began to be inspired by calligraphic art. In the 1950's, Philip Guston became known for his gestural canvases and his associations with the abstract expressionist movement, later rejecting the style to make totemic, socially conscious figurations during the latter half of his career. By the 1960's, Guston was making paintings that featured hooded Klansmen, detached limbs, and references to his own studio practice. In the 1970's, the Nixon administration became a frequent subject of Guston’s satirical drawings and paintings. Light bulbs, shoes, and cigarettes were other frequent motifs. The impressive series of lithographs that Guston made shortly before his death in 1980 incorporates, as a sort of visual autobiography, the complete repertoire of objects that marked his return to powerful pictorial representation - simple everyday items, clocks, shoes, books, cigarettes, ashtrays, and occasionally his beloved sandwiches and cherries His work has been exhibited in New York, London, Los Angeles, Basel, Mexico City, and Amsterdam, and is included in the collections of the Art Institute of Chicago, The Centre Pompidou, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, among many others. Dimensions: Sheet - 5 3/4" high x 8 1/2" wide. Plate - 3 7/8" high x 5 3/4" wide. Frame: 10 " high x 12" wide. Condition: Some minor water staining to the back of the print. Otherwise, very good. Frame having very minor wear.

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