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We look slightly down onto eight cylindrical, metallic tubes of vibrantly colored lipsticks standing in two rows of four against a cream-colored background in this nearly square print. The caps are removed and the tips are irregularly worn down to points, rounded tips, or flat tops. There are two teal-blue lipsticks, two peachy-pink, one rose pink, two plum purple, and one canary yellow. The tubes are painted with vertical bands of buttercup yellow, denim blue, black, white, and scarlet red to suggest reflections off shiny gold and silver tubes. Shadows angling off to our left at the foot of each tube are created with hatched lines in raspberry red and peacock blue. The artist signed the work in pencil in the lower right corner, “Thiebaud 1988,” and wrote “OK T.P.” in the lower left.

Wayne Thiebaud

Eight Lipsticks, 1988

Not on View

Medium

drypoint on Somerset Satin paper

Dimensions

image: 17.8 x 15.2 cm (7 x 6 in.)

sheet: 35.6 x 30.5 cm (14 x 12 in.)

Credit Line

Gift of Kathan Brown

Accession Number

1996.93.99

Artists / Makers

Wayne Thiebaud (artist) American, 1920 - 2021

Crown Point Press (publisher)

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Inscription

in graphite below plate mark; lower left: OK T.P.; lower right: Thiebaud 1988

Marks and Labels

blind stamp lower right: Crown Point Press / Lawrence J. Hamlin (chop of Crown Point Press)

Provenance

Acquired by NGA directly from Kathan Brown in 1996.

Associated Names

Brown, Kathan

Exhibition History

1997: Thirty-five Years at Crown Point Press, National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1997, no. 113*.

2016: Three Centuries of American Prints: from the National Gallery of Art, National Gallery of Art, Washington; National Gallery in Prague, Prague 1; Antiguo Colegio de San Ildefonso, Mexico City; Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas, 2016 - 2017, no. 138.

Bibliography

1997: Thirty-five Years at Crown Point Press. Exh. cat. National Gallery of Art, Washington; The Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, 1997-1998: no. 113*.