Cigars, from Recent Etchings II
Primary
Wayne Thiebaud
(1920–)
Printer
Stephen Thomas
NationalityAmerican, North America
Date1979
MediumTwo-color soft-ground etching and aquatint
DimensionsSheet: 22 5/8 × 29 11/16 in. (57.5 × 75.4 cm)
Additional Dimension: 15 3/4 × 19 13/16 in. (40 × 50.3 cm)
Additional Dimension: 15 3/4 × 19 13/16 in. (40 × 50.3 cm)
Credit LineBlanton Museum of Art, The University of Texas at Austin, Gift of Charles and Dorothy Clark, 1983.52
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Rights Statement
Collection AreaPrints and Drawings
Object number1983.52
On View
Not on viewThiebaud presents images of objects that imply a human presence. Ostensibly neutral objects, Thiebaud's cigars imply the persons who smoked them, while commenting upon American material consumption and the fetishism of mass culture products.
Exhibitions
![Self-Portrait [Autorretrato]](/internal/media/dispatcher/15814/thumbnail)
