Contemporary Evening Auction

Contemporary Evening Auction

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Property from an Esteemed Private Collection

Wayne Thiebaud

Watermelon & Knife

Auction Closed

May 14, 12:59 AM GMT

Estimate

1,000,000 - 1,500,000 USD

Lot Details

Description

Property from an Esteemed Private Collection 

Wayne Thiebaud

1920 - 2021


Watermelon & Knife

signed and dated 1989 (upper left)

oil on panel

16 by 20 in.

40.6 by 50.8 cm.

Executed in 1989.

The Artist

Allan Stone Gallery, New York

Acquired from the above in December 2006 by the present owner

Palmer Poroner, "Artist Wayne Thiebaud is many things," ARTspeak, Summer 1994, n.p., illustrated

Kenneth Baker, et. al., Wayne Thiebaud, New York, 2015, no. 108, p. 199, illustrated

Moraga, California, Hearst Art Gallery, Saint Mary's College of California, Thiebaud at Seventy, November - December 1990, no. 46, n.p., illustrated

New York, Allan Stone Gallery, Wayne Thiebaud at Allan Stone Gallery: Celebrating 33 Years Together, May - June 1994, illustrated in color (on the annoucement card) and p. 4, illustrated in color

Palm Springs Art Museum, Seductions: Impressionist and 20th-Century Painting, June - August 2008

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