Artist Wayne Thiebaud, whose luscious, colourful paintings of cakes and San Francisco cityscapes combined sensuousness, nostalgia and a hint of melancholy, has died. He was 101.
His death was confirmed in a statement Sunday by his gallery, Acquavella.
“Even at 101 years old, he still spent most days in the studio, driven by, as he described with his characteristic humility, ‘this almost neurotic fixation of trying to learn to paint,”‘ the gallery’s statement said.
We join the art world in mourning the loss of dear friend and esteemed artist Wayne Thiebaud. <a href=”https://t.co/ZyhPM1aShS”>pic.twitter.com/ZyhPM1aShS</a>
—@SFMOMA
The dean of California painters, Thiebaud drew upon
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