Philip Guston, Black Sea 1977
© The Estate of Philip Guston
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The heel of a shoe sits like an enigmatic monument above a green stretch of water. The shape of the heel is similar to forms depicted by Guston in his earlier abstract paintings. Guston did not define the meaning of his images and considered that each one held an array of different possible meanings. He said: 'When you paint things they change into something else, something totally unpredictable.'
August 2004
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