Wayne Thiebaud, Lunch (from Delights)

Wayne Thiebaud
Lunch (from Delights)

1964
etching on BFK Rives
14.75 h × 11 w in (37 × 28 cm)

Signed, titled and dated to lower edge 'Lunch AP Thiebaud 1964'. This work is an artist's proof apart from the numbered edition of 100 published by Crown Point Press, Berkeley, California, 1965.

Provenance: Allan Stone Collection, New York

Exhibited: Wayne Thiebaud: Graphics, June 1965, Allan Stone Gallery, New York (another example) | Wayne Thiebaud: Graphics 1964-1971, 1971-1979, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, William Rockhill Nelson Gallery and Atkins Museum of Fine Arts (now The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art), Kansas City, Missouri, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., Fort Wayne Museum of Art, Texas, Fort Worth Center of Museum (now Fort Worth Art Museum), Texas, Des Moines Art Center, Iowa, Achenbach Foundation for Graphic Arts, California Palace of the Legion of Honor, San Francisco, Wadsworth Athenaeum, Hartford, Connecticut, Baltimore Museum, Phoenix Art Museum, Wallraf-Ritchartz Museum, Cologne, West Germany, Arnolfini Gallery, Bristol, England, Bard College, Annandale-on-the-Hudson, New York (another example, as Lunch)

Literature: Coplans, John, Wayne Thiebaud, Pasadena Art Museum, Pasadena, 1968, no. 83, not illus. | Wayne Thiebaud: Graphics 1964-1971, Parasol Press Ltd, New York, 1971, no. 10, illus. (as Lunch) | Thiebaud, Wayne, et al, Vision and Revision: Hand Colored Prints by Wayne Thiebaud, San Francisco: Chronicle Books, 1991, illus. p. 48 (as Lunch) | Wayne Thiebaud: Prints and Works on Paper [exh. cat.], Sims Reed Gallery, London, 2015. illus. p. 40 | Teagle, Rachel et. al., Wayne Thiebaud: 1958 - 1958, University of California Press, Davis, California, 2018. pl. 23 p. 95 illus.
Condition Report: Sheet is clean and fully visible in frame. Good condition with one pinpoint of discoloration at left edge of plate in margin. Work has not been examined out of frame. Framed behind acrylic measuring 18 x 14 inches.Condition reports are rendered as specialist opinion by the staff of the Auction House and/or independent consultants and not as statements of fact. We do not guarantee the content of written or verbal condition reports. The absence of a condition report does not imply that there are no condition issues with the lot. Please call us at (609) 397-9374 or e-mail info@ragoarts.com with any questions about this lot at least 24 hours prior to auction.