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| Image | Sale date | Auction house | Location | Sale name | Lot No. | Estimate | Price Sold | Condition | Title |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Jun 27, 2023 | Sotheby's | London | Modern and Contemporary Evening Auction, featuring Face to Face: A Celebration of Portraiture | 146 | $****** - ****** | Various Cakes |
paintings
63.5 x 58.5 cm (25 x 23.03 in)
oil on canvas
signed and dated 1981 (lower right); signed and dated 1981 (on the reverse)
Allan Stone (acquired directly from the artist)
Sotheby's New York, 9 May 2011, lot 40 (consigned by the above)
Private Collection (acquired from the above sale)
Acquired from the above by the present owner
San Francisco, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art; Newport Beach, Newport Harbor Art Museum; Milwaukee, Milwaukee Art Museum; Columbus, Columbus Museum of Art and Kansas City, The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Wayne Thiebaud , September - November 1986, pp. 44 and 46 (text); and p. 88, no. 74, illustrated in colour
New York, Allan Stone Gallery, Wayne Thiebaud: Four Decades with the Allan Stone Gallery , May - July 2001
San Francisco, John Berggruen Gallery, Wayne Thiebaud: Paintings and Pastels , May - July 2012
La Jolla, Tasende Gallery, Cheers to 100 Years: Wayne Thiebaud , November 2020, p. 5, no. 82, illustrated in colour
Bill Berkson, "Thiebaud"s Vanities," Art In America , December 1985, p. 119, illustrated in colour
Wayne Thiebaud, Thiebaud: delicious metropolis , San Francisco, 2019, pp. 22-23, illustrated in colour
Property from an Important Private Collection
Wayne Thiebaud
1920 - 2021
Various Cakes
signed and dated 1981 (lower right); signed and dated 1981 (on the reverse)
oil on canvas
63.5 by 58.5 cm.
25 by 23 in.
Executed in 1981.
