Live Auction 15877Post-War to Present
Wayne Thiebaud (b. 1920)
Lot 66

Wayne Thiebaud (b. 1920)

Nickel Machine

Closed27 September 2018

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USD 81,250

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Wayne Thiebaud (b. 1920)
Nickel Machine
signed, titled, inscribed and dated '"Nickel Machine" T.P. ? Thiebaud 1964/2002' (lower edge)
watercolor and etching on paper
image: 8 x 5 in. (20.3 x 12.7 cm.)
sheet: 15 x 11 3/8 in. (28.1 x 28.9 cm.)
Executed in 1964/2002.

Campbell-Thiebaud Gallery, San Francisco
Private collection, Northern California
Anon. sale; Phillips, New York, 26 October 2015, lot 65
Acquired at the above sale by the present owner

Specialist note

“My object paintings are done from memory. They have to do with structural configuration—part design, part cubism. That direct attack is what keeps me going. Honest, direct, not going back and mixing things up.”
-Wayne Thiebaud