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WAYNE THIEBAUD Bird.
Color screenprint, circa 1950s. 540x788 mm; 21 1/4x31 inches, full margins. Signed in pencil, lower right. A very good impression of this extremely scarce, early print.
This very early work dates from Thiebaud's (born 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, or shortly thereafter 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 and Willem de Kooning and Franz Kline. Stimulated by these friendships, and seeing the early proto-Pop works that Robert Rauschenberg and Jasper Johns 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.
Thiebaud revisted the subject of the current work in another, smaller etched version that shows him at his mature style, Bird on a Swing, from Recent Etchings II , 1979.
