Wayne Thiebaud

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

This work is in very good condition overall. The colors are bright, fresh and clean. Under very close inspection a few unobtrusive pinpoint spot accretions are visible. Under Ultraviolet light inspection, there is no evidence of restoration. Framed.
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"Then, the sweet everydayness of his cake and pie pictures looked like cousins of Andy Warhol’s soup cans. But where Warhol was cool and ironic, Thiebaud was warm and gently comic, playing on a collective nostalgia just this side of sentimentality. He pushed himself as a painter—experimenting with brushstrokes, color, composition, light and shadow. The cylindrical cakes and cones of ice cream owed more to such masters of the still life as the 18th century French painter Chardin, or the 20th century Italian Giorgio Morandi, as critics have pointed out, than to the art trends of the time."

Cathleen McGuigan, "Thiebaud is Not a Pop Artist," Smithsonian Magazine, February 2011