Study for Gumball Machine

Study for Gumball Machine is a classic example of Wayne Thiebaud's iconic studies of common American foodstuffs drawing upon both the traditional and the contemporary. While working in the tradition of still-life painting, Thiebaud meditates on the beauty of form and color in the vein of his Abstract Expressionist contemporaries, but uses the subject matter associated with Pop Art of mass production and consumption. The present lot is a study for the linocut Gumball Machine included in the portfolio of eight prints: Seven Still Lifes and a Silver Landscape, published by Parasol Press in 1971 in an edition of fifty plus ten artist's proof.