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American Delicacy: Wayne Thiebaud's Candy Counter

Wayne Thiebaud

Candy Counter

Auction Closed

May 19, 12:05 AM GMT

Estimate

10,000,000 - 15,000,000 USD

Lot Details

Description

American Delicacy: Wayne Thiebaud's Candy Counter

Wayne Thiebaud

1920 - 2021


Candy Counter

signed and dated 1969♡ (upper center)

oil on canvas

47 ½ by 36 ⅛ in.

120.7 by 91.8 cm.

Executed in 1969. 

Family of the artist
Paul Thiebaud Gallery, San Francisco
Acquired from the above by the present owner 
Wayne Thiebaud, Delicious Metropolis: The Desserts and Urban Scenes of Wayne Thiebaud, San Francisco, 2019, pp. 16-17, illustrated in color
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art; Newport Harbor Art Museum; Milwaukee Art Museum; Columbus Museum of Art; and Kansas City, The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Wayne Thiebaud, September 1985 - November 1986, pl. 22, no. 28, p. 76, illustrated in color and p. 174
The Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, The “POP ART” Exhibition, October 1992 - January 1993, no. 91, pp. 129, 280
de Young Legion of Honor, Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco; Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth; Washington, D.C., The Phillips Collection; and New York, Whitney Museum of American Art, Wayne Thiebaud: A Paintings Retrospective, June 2000 - September 2001, no. 56, pp. 126-127, illustrated in color (only traveled to Fort Worth, Washington and New York)
Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art, Wayne Thiebaud: Fifty Years of Painting, June - August 2003, p. 44-45, illustrated in color and p. 101
New York, Acquavella Galleries, Wayne Thiebaud, October - November 2012, pp. 144-145, illustrated in color