Laura Gascoigne

How Philip Guston became a hero to a new generation of figurative painters

Plus: the crude, complex and ingenious sculpture of Georg Baselitz

Ropes, legs and shoe soles haunt Philip Guston’s later canvases like recurring nightmares: ‘Painter’s Forms II’ (1978). Collection of the Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, Museum Purchase, The Friends of Art Endowment © The Estate of Philip Guston

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