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Morton Wayne Thiebaud. How much is his work worth?

Morton Wayne Thiebaud. How much is his work worth?

Born in Mesa, Arizona in 1920, Wayne Thiebaud has spent most of his life in Long Beach, California. He started his career in commercial art and planned to pursue advertising. From 1938 to 1949, Thiebaud worked as a sign painter, illustrator, cartoonist and advertising manager, as well as an artist for Hollywood film studios.

From 1949 to 1950, Thiebaud studied at San Jose State University and, from 1950 to 1953, at California State University in Sacramento. He had his first one-man show at the Crocker Art Gallery, Sacramento, in 1951. From 1956 to 1957, the artist lived briefly in New York City, where he became a close friend of abstract expressionist Willem de Kooning. After nine years teaching as a visiting professor at renowned universities around the country, he accepted a professorship at the University of California at Davis in 1960. 1962 marked the first exhibition of his work in New York, where he exhibited at the Allan Stone Gallery , as well as his first solo museum exhibition at the De Young Museum in San Francisco.

Thiebaud has been associated with Pop Art, yet his early work slightly predates that of classic pop artists, suggesting that he could have been a major influence on the movement. His work possesses a nostalgic sentimentality traditionally lacking in Pop Art and owes more to Thiebaud's study of historical masters of still life than to contemporary art movements. The true-to-life depiction in his oeuvre marks him as a predecessor of photorealism. Thiebaud uses heavy pigments and exaggerated colors to depict his subjects, and the well-defined shadows characteristic of advertising are almost always included. Objects are simplified to basic units, but appear varied using seemingly minimal means. Giorgio Morandi, whose contemplative, palpable and delicate works share many characteristics with those of Thiebaud, is commonly cited as an artistic influence.

Thiebaud's paintings are in the permanent collection of the Museum of Modern Art in New York, the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art and the Art Institute of Chicago, as well as many others in the United States and abroad. He was awarded the National Medal of Arts in 1994. In 2001, the Whitney Museum of American Art awarded Thiebaud with the most comprehensive retrospective of his work to date.

Wayne Thiebaud currently lives and works in Sacramento, California.

Investment value ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

Thiebaud's works, considering the values ​​at the beginning of the 100s which reached between 200/2013 thousand dollars, today reach millions. As early as 6,3 he begins to record records such as: $ 2005 million, for Two Jackpots (XNUMX), auctioned by Christie's. Then to follow continuous records and great expectation on the part of collectors to grab many other works such as those recorded in recent years. A real jackpot machine like his series of works “$ Machine”.

How much is his work worth?

Some awards 2020/2017:

civic center, 1986 – Oil/canvas (121,9 x 91,4 cm)

Clearing price: €2.389.081 ($2.700.000) Price including charges: €2.884.594 ($3.260.000) Estimate: €2.212.112 – €3.096.956 ($2.500.000 – $3.500.000 ) Sotheby's, 06/03/2020New York, United States 
Signed dated 1986 Notes: Property from a Distinguished Private Collection, San FranciscoOrigin: Campbell-Thiebaud Gallery, San Francisco; Acquired from the above by the present owner in 1994.

"Fruit Stand", 1963 – Oil/canvas (43 x 61,2 cm)

Clearing price: €1.778.490 (£1.500.000) Price including charges: €2.151.972 (£1.815.000) Estimate: €948.528 – €1.422.792 (£800.000 – £1.200.000) Sotheby's, 11/02/2020London, UK.
Property from a European Private CollectionOrigin: Allan Stone Gallery, New York (acquired directly from the artist); Schwarz Gallery, Milan; Fänn and Willy Schniewind Collection, Neviges (acquired from the above in the 1960s) ; Thence by descent to the present ownerExposure: Milan, Galleria Schwarz, Wayne Thiebaud, June – July 1963.

Ripley Street Ridge, 1976 – Oil/canvas (71,09 x 50,8 cm)

Clearing price: €2.488.191 ($2.750.000) Price including charges: €3.003.925 ($3.320.000) Estimate: €1.357.195 – €1.809.593 ($1.500.000 – $2.000.000 ) Sotheby's, 15/11/2019New York, United States 
Signed Dated Notes: Property from an Important American CollectionOrigin: Allan Stone Gallery, New York; Private Collection (acquired from the above); Christie's, New York, May 14, 2009, Lot 157; Acquired from the above sale by the present ownerExposure: Des Moines Art Center, 1976-1977, no.86.

candles, 1965-1966 – Oil/cardboard (20,3 x 25,4 cm)

Clearing price: €1.815.440 ($2.000.000) Price including charges: €2.196.682 ($2.420.000) Estimate: €1.815.440 – €2.723.160 ($2.000.000 – $3.000.000 ) Phillips, 14/11/2019New York, United States 
Origin: The Collection of Allan Stone (acquired directly from the artist); His sale di lui, Sotheby's, New York, May 9, 2011, lot 27: Acquired at the above sale by the present.

Encased Cakes, 2011 – Oil/canvas (182,9 x 121,9 cm)

Clearing price: €6.535.584 ($7.200.000) Price including charges: €7.683.668 ($8.464.800) Estimate: €5.446.320 – €7.261.760 ($6.000.000 – $8.000.000 ) Sotheby's, 14/11/2019New York, United States . Property from an Important American CollectionOrigin: Acquired directly from the artist in 2011.

Four Pinball Machines (Study) – Oil/canvas (28,3 x 30,8 cm)

Clearing price: €2.683.320 ($3.000.000) Price including charges: €3.237.872 ($3.620.000) Estimate: €1.788.880 – €2.683.320 ($2.000.000 – $3.000.000 ) Sotheby's, 16/05/2019New York, United States 
Signed dated 1962 Notes: Property from a Prestigious Private European CollectionOrigin: Allan Stone, New York (acquired directly from the artist); Sotheby's New York, the Collection of Allan Stone: the Art of Wayne Thiebaud, May 9, 2011, Lot 26 (consigned by the above); Acquired by the present owner from the aboveExposure: New York, Whitney Museum of American Art, 2001, no. 16.

Clearing price: €2.714.563 ($3.200.000) Price including charges: €3.268.079 ($3.852.500) Estimate: €1.017.961 – €1.526.941 ($1.200.000 – $1.800.000 ) Christie's , 18/05/2018 New York, United States 
SignedOrigin: Paul Thiebaud Gallery, San Francisco. Acquired from the above by the present owner.

Clearing price: €1.188.572 ($1.400.000) Price including charges: €1.436.898 ($1.692.500) Estimate: €594.286 – €848.980 ($700.000 – $1.000.000 )Christie's , 16/11/2017 New York, United States 
Signed Inscribed “Thiebaud”Origin: Paul Thiebaud Gallery, San Francisco. Acquired from the above by the present owner.

10-Cent Machine, 1999 – Oil/Paper/board (27,9 x 20,3 cm)

Clearing price: €1.017.480 ($1.200.000) Price including charges: €1.233.694 ($1.455.000) Estimate: €423.950 – €593.530 ($500.000 – $700.000 ) Sotheby's, 17/11/2017New York, United States.
SignedOrigin: Private Collection, California (acquired directly from the artist circa 1999); Acquired from the above by the present owner in 2009

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