Wayne Thiebaud (b. 1920)

Sticks in a Jar

Details

Wayne Thiebaud (b. 1920)
Sticks in a Jar
signed, numbered and dated 'A.P. ? Thiebaud 1965-1990' (lower edge); inscribed 'hand water colored artist proof - Ed. 25' (lower left)
watercolor over etching on paper
image: 5 3/8 x 6 ¾ in. (13.6 x 17.1 cm.)
sheet: 15 x 11 in. (38.1 x 27.9 cm.)
Executed in 1965-1990. This work is a unique hand-colored artist’s proof aside from the black and white edition of twenty-five.

Provenance

Paul Thiebaud Gallery, San Francisco
Acquired from the above by the present owner

Exhibited

Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco; Fort Worth, Museum of Modern Art; Washington D.C., National Gallery of Art and West Palm Beach, Norton Museum of Art, Vision and Revision: Hand-Colored Prints by Wayne Thiebaud, December 1991-May 1993, p. 90, no. 10 (illustrated).

Sale Room Notice

Please note this work is a unique hand-colored artist’s proof aside from the black and white edition of twenty-five.

Lot Essay

"But of course I do think a lot about the subject matter, which exercises some sort of mysterious pull. It's just very, very, familiar. I spent time in food preparation, I sold papers on the streets, and I went into Kresses or Woolworths or Newberrys, to see the eccentric display of peppermint candy. They're mostly painted from memory--from memories of bakeries and restaurants--any kind of window display. Its the exclusionary aspect that gets me--there's a lot of yearning, there" (W. Thiebaud quoted by A. Gopnik, An American Painter, Wayne Thiebaud: A Paintings Retrospective, Fine Arts Museum of San Francisco, 2000, p. 55.

Sticks in a Jar

Lot Essay

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