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Wayne Thiebaud
CLOUD SMOKE 
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Wayne Thiebaud
CLOUD SMOKE 
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Details & Cataloguing

Contemporary Curated

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Wayne Thiebaud
B. 1920
CLOUD SMOKE 
titled and dated 1993 on the stretcher; signed and dated 1993 on the reverse
oil on canvas 
24 by 17 7/8 in. 61 by 45.4 cm.
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Provenance

Allan Stone Gallery, New York (acquired directly from the artist)
Acquired from the above by the present owner  

Literature

Allan Stone, Wayne Thiebaud, New York 1994, n.p., illustrated in color 

Catalogue Note

"Landscape for me took on the problem of composition. I wanted to eliminate the horizon line, to see if I could get a landscape image that didn't use a horizontal fixation. Instead, I try to establish a positional directive for the viewer⁠—whether it's up, down, helicopter view, world view, valley view⁠—to try and get some sense of loss of the convenience or comfort of standing and looking at things, to throw people off a bit." Wayne Thiebaud 
Fig. 1

Salvador Dali, Woman with head full of clouds, 1936
Image © Museum Boymans van Beuningen, Rotterdam, The Netherlands / Bridgeman Images
Art © 2019 Salvador Dalí, Gala-Salvador Dalí Foundation / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York

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