WAYNE THIEBAUD | Vertical Books

Allan Stone Gallery, New York
Private Collection, New York
James Goodman Gallery, Inc., New York
Acquired from the above by the present owner in 2007

New York, Allan Stone Gallery, Wayne Thiebaud at Allan Stone Gallery: Celebrating 33 Years Together, May - June 1994, n.p., illustrated in color

This work is in very good condition overall. The colors are bright, fresh and clean. There are artist’s pinholes in the upper corners and lower left corner. Under Ultraviolet light inspection, there is no evidence of restoration. Framed under Plexiglas.
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"The purpose of art is to impart the sensation of things as they are perceived and not as they are known. The technique of art is to make objects 'unfamiliar,' to make forms difficult, to increase the difficulty and length of perception because the process of perception is an aesthetic end in itself and must be prolonged. Art is a way of experiencing the artfulness of an object; the object is not important."
Viktor Shklovsky in Exh. Cat., London, White Cube, Wayne Thiebaud 1962 to 2017, 2017, p. 7