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| Image | Sale date | Auction house | Location | Sale name | Lot No. | Estimate | Price Sold | Condition | Title |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
May 17, 2023 | Phillips | New York | 20th Century & Contemporary Art Evening Sale | 21 | $****** - ****** | Good | Chocolate Merangue | ||
Nov 13, 2012 | Sotheby's | New York | Contemporary Art Evening Auction | 39 | $****** - ****** | Good | Chocolate Merangue |
paintings
45.7 x 61 cm (18 x 24 in)
oil on canvas
signed and dated “Thiebaud 1961” upper left; signed and titled ““chocolate merangue” Thiebaud” on the stretcher
Allan Stone Gallery, New York
Private Collection (acquired from the above in October 1962)
Sotheby's, New York, November 13, 2012, lot 39
Private Collection, Asia
Acquired from the above by the present owner
New York, Allan Stone Gallery, Wayne Thiebaud: Recent Paintings , April 17-May 5, 1962 (illustrated on the exhibition announcement card)
Donald Judd and Vivien Raynor, “NEW YORK REPORTS: In the Galleries,” Arts Magazine , vol. 36, no. 10, September 1962, p. 49
Katherine Roth, “More Than Empty Calories,” Los Angeles Times , August 17, 2001, online (titled Chocolate Meringue )
Wayne Thiebaud: 1958-1968 , exh. cat., Jan Shrem and Maria Manetti Shrem Museum of Art, Davis, 2018, pl. 31, figs. 45, 48, p. 30 (illustrated, p. 104; Allan Stone Gallery, New York, 1962, installation views illustrated, pp. 156, 158; titled Chocolate Meringue )
signed and dated “Thiebaud 1961” upper left; signed and titled ““chocolate merangue” Thiebaud” on the stretcher
oil on canvas
18 x 24 in. (45.7 x 61 cm)
Painted in 1961.
