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WAYNE THEIBAUD The Disguise.
Lithograph on smooth cream wove paper, 1953. 615x460 mm; 24 1/4x18 1/4 inches, full margins. Signed, titled and dated in pencil, lower margin. A very good, dark impression of this extremely scarce, early lithograph.
This very early lithograph dates from shortly after Thiebaud's (b. 1920) student years at Sacramento State College (now California State University, Sacramento), where he earned a bachelor's degree in 1951 and a master's degree in 1952, while he was teaching at Sacramento City College.
On a leave of absence from his teaching position during 1956-57, Thiebaud spent time in New York and became friends with Elaine (1918-1989, see lot 60) and Willem de Kooning (1904-1997, see lots 5-11) and Franz Kline (1910-1962). Stimulated by these friendships, and seeing the early proto-Pop works that Robert Rauschenberg (1925-2008, see lots 186-196, 208 and 209 ) and Jasper Johns (b. 1930, see lots 181-185) were creating in New York at the time, Thiebaud began a series of very small paintings based on images of food displayed in windows, leading him to what has been the signature theme of his work over the past five decades (see lot 302).
