Wayne Thiebaud (b. 1920)
Wayne Thiebaud (b. 1920)

Mickey and Minnie Cakes

Details
Wayne Thiebaud (b. 1920)
Mickey and Minnie Cakes
signed and dated 'Thiebaud 1988' (upper left); signed again, titled and dated again '"MICKEY + MINNIE CAKES" Thiebaud 1988' (on the reverse)
oil on board
11½ x 16½ in. (29.2 x 41.9 cm.)
Painted in 1988.
Provenance
Allan Stone Gallery, New York
Acquired from the above by the present owner
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Lot Essay

"Thiebaud's art in its Zenlike insistence that we empty our minds and give a lemon, a bird, a cake its full inspection as a thing, is closer to a koan than a crack, and demands time. The Pop resonance of his subjects is apparent, but they come at us slowed down and chastened with a host of ambivalent feelings - nostalgic, satiric, elegiac, longing, inquiring - attached, so that our experience ends calmed down and contemplative: enlightened" (Adam Gopnik, An American Painter, San Francisco, 2000, p. 56).

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