Head and Bottle
Philip Guston
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Date:1975 -
Style:Neo-Expressionism -
Series:Cyclops -
Genre:figurative -
Media:oil, canvas -
Location:Private Collection
Head and Bottle
Philip Guston
Head and Bottle exemplifies Guston's move away from painting the hooded Klansmen in the late 1960s. He invented this lima-bean shaped Cyclops head, with no body and one giant eye, to represent the all-seeing artist. In this work, the eye scrutinizes a green bottle, studying it as if about to pick up the nearby paintbrush to render it in red paint. The year after he painted this, Guston was hospitalized with exhaustion.
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