Contemporary Evening Auction

Contemporary Evening Auction

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Property from an Esteemed Private Collection

Wayne Thiebaud

Suckers

Live auction begins on:

May 13, 11:00 PM GMT

Estimate

1,800,000 - 2,500,000 USD

Lot Details

Description

Property from an Esteemed Private Collection 

Wayne Thiebaud

1920 - 2021


Suckers

signed and dated 1970 (lower center)

oil on canvas

16 by 20 in.

40.6 by 50.8 cm.

Executed in 1970.

Allan Stone Gallery, New York

Janss Collection, Sun Valley

Private Collection

Private Collection

Acquired from the above in May 2008 by the present owner

David Shirley, "Even Dieters Can Partake of This Fare," The New York Times, 21 August 1977, illustrated

Seymour Howard, ed., The Counterpoint to Likeness: Essays on Imitation and Imagination in Western Painting, Los Angeles, 1977, no. 6, p. 56, illustrated

New York, Allan Stone Gallery, Wayne Thiebaud: Recent Works, November - December 1973

Phoenix Art Museum; Oakland Museum of California; Los Angeles, University of Southern California Art Galleries; and Des Moines Art Center, Wayne Thiebaud: Survey 1947-1976, September 1976 - May 1977, no. 60, n.p., illustrated

Palm Springs Art Museum, Impressionist and Modern Masters: Nature and Light, June - August 2009

Palm Springs Art Museum, Modern Masters Celebrate Line and Form, June - October 2010

Palm Springs Art Museum, Simply Masterful: Picasso and Artists of the Modern Era, June - September 2011

Palm Springs Art Museum, Between Abstract and Figurative, June - August 2012

Palm Springs Art Museum, Made in the USA: from Abstract Expressionists to Color Field Painters, June - September 2013