His most popular real estate books include the including the 1998 Amazon.com bestseller Real
Estate confronts Reality, the annual Swanepoel Trends Report (2006 through 2018).
The seeming about - face in Guston's work that was announced by his first, and only, exhibition at the powerful Marlborough Gallery — representing many other Abstract Expressionists or their
estates — resulted from the acute discrepancy he felt existed between the transcendental qualities of his abstract work and the harsh, down - to - earth
realities of America in crisis, and his need to
confront that strife head on.