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• Lot n° 59 Wayne Thiebaud (1920-2021) "Hill Street," 1987 Woodcut in colors on Echizen-Mashi Japanese paper Edition: 105/200 (there were also 20 artist's proofs) Signed, dated, and numbered in pencil in the lower margin: Thiebaud 1987; signed with Japanese characters in pencil and with the ink stamp of the printer, Tadashi Toda at Shi-un-do Print Shop, Kyoto, Japan, in the lower margin, at left; Crown Point Press, San Francisco, CA, pub., with their blindstamp in the lower right margin corner Image: 30.125" H x 20.125" W; Sheet: 37.25" H x 24" W Provenance: Estate of Robert Baron, Huntington Beach, CA Other Notes: "Wayne told me that once when he had set up his easel on a San Francisco street, a man stopped to watch and asked if he had been to art school. 'I had to admit that I hadn't', Wayne replied. 'You could spend just a short time in one of those places,' the man said, 'and get that perspective thing worked out.'" - Kathan Brown Wayne Thiebaud was a significant American Contemporary Pop artist renowned for his vibrant depictions of everyday objects, including cakes, pies, and gumball machines, as well as dynamic landscape and cityscape compositions. While widely celebrated for his paintings, Thiebaud was also a master printmaker whose work in this medium played a significant role in his artistic legacy. Beginning in the 1950s, he explored various printmaking techniques, including lithography, etching, and aquatint. Thiebaud brought his signature use of color and attention to light and shadow into his prints, often revisiting the same subjects he painted but experimenting with composition and texture in new ways. His involvement with prominent print studios including Crown Point Press, where he first began making etchings in 1964, helped elevate printmaking as a serious and expressive art form during the Pop Art era. Thiebaud approached printmaking with the same meticulous care as his paintings, yet embraced the unique constraints and opportunities of the medium. Through printmaking, he was able to explore repetition and variation, qualities already central to his artistic vision. Many of his prints highlight his fascination with form and surface, with thick, layered lines and unexpected color juxtapositions that echo his love for classic American commercial imagery. Thiebaud's prints are now held in major museum collections around the world, underscoring his influence not only as a painter of American life but also as a significant innovator in 20th-century printmaking. "Hill Street" features a dramatically heightened and foreshortened view of San Francisco buildings and roads. The spatial abstraction and extreme verticality of the composition capture San Francisco's precipitous hilly terrain, while the layered color palette and atmospheric sky evoke the luminosity and light in the Bay Area.