Lot 21
Chocolate Merangue
Sold
$2,238,000
Est $2,000,000 - $3,000,000
Live Auction
20TH CENTURY & CONTEMPORARY ART EVENING SALE
ARTIST
Wayne Thiebaud
Size
18 x 24 in. (45.7 x 61 cm)
Description
PROPERTY FROM A DISTINGUISHED ASIAN COLLECTION

Medium
oil on canvas
Signature
Painted in 1961.
Provenance
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
Literature
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)
Exhibited
New York, Allan Stone Gallery, Wayne Thiebaud: Recent Paintings, April 17–May 5, 1962 (illustrated on the exhibition announcement card)