Live Auction 16978Post-War and Contemporary Art Morning Session
Wayne Thiebaud (b. 1920)
Lot 657 Property from a Private American Collector

Wayne Thiebaud (b. 1920)

Freeway Traffic

Closed16 May 2019

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USD 250,000

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Wayne Thiebaud (b. 1920)
Freeway Traffic
signed and dated 'Thiebaud 1983' (lower left); inscribed '"FREEWAY" 5 Freeway Lanes' (on the reverse)
oil on Masonite
16 x 20 in. (40.6 x 50.8 cm.)
Painted in 1983.

Allan Stone Gallery, New York
Private collection, Minnesota
Anon. sale; Christie’s, New York, 7 May 1996, lot 41
Acquired at the above sale by the present owner

Specialist note

”I’ve remained interested in the city as a human enterprise, and the pile of human tracks it contains and the byways of living and moving. The making of mazes and roads, all the symbols of roadmaking..." - Wayne Thiebaud