Auction Name: 2026 January 28 Tools at Play: The Hechinger Collection Modern & Contemporary Art Showcase Auction

Lot Number: 36020

Shortcut to Lot: HA.com/17228*36020

Wayne Thiebaud (1920-2021)
Paint Cans, 1990
Lithograph in colors on Arches paper
38-3/4 x 29-1/4 inches (98.4 x 74.3 cm) (sheet)
Ed. 54/100 (aside from 10 artist's proofs)
Signed, editioned, and dated in pencil along lower edge
Published by the Chicago Art Expo, Chicago
Printed by Trillium Graphics, San Francisco; with their stamp verso lower right

Property from the Hechinger Collection

EXHIBITED:
City Museum, Saint Louis, Missouri, (and elsewhere), "Tools as Art: The Hechinger Collection," July 1, 2001-December 30, 2008;
Carnegie Arts Center, Turlock, California, (and elsewhere), "Making Your Mark: Prints and Drawings from the Hechinger Collection," September 18, 2021-December 22, 2023;
Knoxville Museum of Art, Knoxville, Tennessee, (and elsewhere),"Tools as Art: Work and Play," May 3-September 8, 2025.


LITERATURE:
P. Hamill, Tools as Art: The Hechinger Collection, New York, 1995, p. 59, illustrated.


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