韦恩·蒂博（Wayne Thiebaud）克里斯蒂的拍卖行宣布，‘2004年的绘画“城市景观”将是一次拍卖会上的作品，突出了1880年代至1980年代制造的艺术品。
Among the largest landscape works ever painted by the late Bay Area Figurative painter, it’s one of the lots in the auction house’s Spring Marquee Week 20th Century Evening Sale happening in New York City on May 12. The sale, now in its third season, will also include work by文森特 - 梵高,Pablo Picasso，Willem de Kooning和Andy Warhol.
“To our knowledge it is the only triptych of his to come to auction,” Ellanor Notides, Christie’s West Coast chairman, told The Chronicle of “City Views.”
这项工作表明，旧金山的道路和摩天大楼似乎正在相交和融合，近二十年前是由Gladstone Institutes委托的，Gladstone Institutes是一项旧金山生物医学研究非营利组织，专门研究心血管，病毒和免疫疾病和免疫疾病和神经退行性疾病的研究。它以前挂在公司在Mission Bay的大楼中。
4月19日星期二，在克里斯蒂（Christie）的旧金山举行了“城市景观”展览，并将在4月22日（星期五）前往纽约进行拍卖。
This will be the first time the triptych, which was painted over the course of several months in 2003-04, has ever been for sale.
“His work provided a glimpse into the secrets of San Francisco life, much as our science helps shed light on human biology,” said Deepak Srivastava, president of Gladstone Institutes. “We are excited to continue honoring him, his legacy, and his love of mentoring by using the sale proceeds to establish a new fund that will support the next generations of young scientists.”
Thiebaud, Sacrame在长期的家中去世nto in December at age 101, is seen as one of the most significant Northern California artists of his lifetime, with a career that spanned the 1950s to 2020s. Known for his heavy pigmentation, bold color choices and use of shadow, he frequently elevated common objects in his work like gumball machines, paint cans and desserts, which caused some to identify him with the Pop Art movement.
Notides called “City Views” a culmination of several major areas in Thiebaud’s body of work, which include his depiction of landscapes and cityscapes, his use of clouds and street scenes.
“If you look at the picture, you can see that Wayne added onto it,” said Notides, who first met the artist in 1992. “Wayne was not one to leave something sitting. There’s little dashes and dots of color and little sort of cream spots that almost referenced his ice cream cones.”
The current sale price estimate by Christie’s is between $10 million and $15 million. That figure, Notides said, is based not only on the size of the work and quality, but also by considering recent sale prices for other paintings by the artist. In 2021, Thiebaud’s 1968 painting “Toweling Off,” showing a woman wiping her face, was sold by the auction house for $8.4 million.
克里斯蒂（Christie's）的创纪录价格是Thiebaud作品的创纪录价格，并于2020年出售1962年的绘画“四弹球机”，其售价超过1,910万美元。
Gladstone Institutes, which has been the only owner of “City Views,” plans to use the proceeds of the sale to create a dedicated fund to support scientific training and mentoring programs.
“The Gladstone Institutes has made the very difficult decision to sell a work because it’s expensive for them to hold onto. But at the same time they’re supporting the artist’s mission,” said Notides. “Wayne was really about the next generation, about education. What they’re able to do is to sell a work which will benefit their future residents, their future Ph.D. program and allow them to be able to come to San Francisco and study and do research with the institutes.”
Throughout his seven-decade career, Thiebaud also painted portraits, although his landscapes and cityscapes, frequently depicting Northern California, are now significant areas in his overall body of work.
这位艺术家从萨克拉曼多市学院开始了同样多产的教学生涯。1960年，他加入了加州大学戴维斯分校（UC Davis）当时的教授。
蒂博（Thiebaud）在2018 Chronicle采访. “Teaching at the university became my education.”
他于1990年正式退休，但一直在教学直到2002年，并一直是该大学的名誉教授，直到他去世。
“城市景观”：在上午10点至下午5点，并通过预约到4月22日（星期五）。克里斯蒂（Christie）的旧金山，S.F。Geary St. 49
Christie’s Spring Marquee Week 20th Century Evening Sale:8 p.m. Eastern Standard Time, May 12. Christie’s New York,20 Rockefeller Plaza, New York, N.Y. and online atwww.christies.com
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