Musée Picasso

Philip Guston. L’ironie de l’histoire.

From October 14th to March 1st

From October 14, 2025, to March 1, 2026, the Musée national Picasso-Paris will present, on the ground floor and in the basement of the Hôtel Salé, an exhibition dedicated to the work of Philip Guston. Centered on drawings Guston created in response to Philip Roth’s book Our Gang, the exhibition will highlight the connections between Guston’s painting and the satirical, caricatural energy of his drawings inspired by President Nixon and his administration.

In the early 1920s, Philip Guston was expelled from the Los Angeles art school for producing satirical images of the faculty. For him, art would always remain a tool in the struggle against figures of authority. His early works, depicting the atrocities committed by members of the KKK, were vandalized by masked men during their public exhibition.