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Lot Essay
“I was fascinated by those plunging streets, where you get down to an intersection and all four streets take off in different directions. You look at a hill and [it is so steep] it doesn’t look as if the cars would be able to stay on it.” - Wayne Thiebaud
Monotypes are rare amongst Thiebaud’s printed work. Spanning the breadth of his primary genres— from still life and figures to cityscapes and landscapes—the prints were made in two concentrated efforts, first during 1977 and later in 1991. The 1977 prints, all oil-based, were created at Stanford University at the invitation of Nathan Oliveira [1928–2010], a friend and a professor of art there from 1964 to 1996. Oliveira championed, and to some extent popularized, the medium and its techniques from 1972 until the end of his life.
Monotypes are rare amongst Thiebaud’s printed work. Spanning the breadth of his primary genres— from still life and figures to cityscapes and landscapes—the prints were made in two concentrated efforts, first during 1977 and later in 1991. The 1977 prints, all oil-based, were created at Stanford University at the invitation of Nathan Oliveira [1928–2010], a friend and a professor of art there from 1964 to 1996. Oliveira championed, and to some extent popularized, the medium and its techniques from 1972 until the end of his life.