Lithograph on paper
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Chocolate Cake
Purchased 1982
cake
food and drink
natural phenomena
objects
shadow
paper print lithograph
Chocolate Cake
image: 445 × 330 mm
Purchased 1982
<p><a class="acno-pop" data-gtm-destination="page--artwork" data-gtm-name="body_text_link" href="https://www.tate.org.uk/art/artworks/thiebaud-chocolate-cake-p07724" title="View the details of this artwork"><span>P07724</span></a> <b>Chocolate Cake</b> 1971
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<br/>Lithograph 17 1/2 × 13 (445 × 330) on paper watermarked ‘Arches’ 30 1/8 × 22 7/8 (765 × 570), printed by Michael Knigin and published by Parasol Press, New York
<br/>Inscribed ‘Thiebaud 1971’ b.r. and ‘13/50’
<br/>Purchased at Sotheby's, Los Angeles (Grant-in-Aid) 1982
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<br/>Wayne Thiebaud was well known in the sixties for his depictions in rich and bright colours of consumer food products, often in series. His images have always tended towards the impersonal and the matter-of-fact. ‘Chocolate Cake’ is a <a class="glossarylinktopopup" data-gtm-destination="article-page" data-gtm-name="body_text_link" href="http://www.tate.org.uk/learn/online-resources/glossary/m/monochrome" title="Glossary definition for 'Monochrome'"><span>monochrome</span></a> <a class="glossarylinktopopup" data-gtm-destination="article-page" data-gtm-name="body_text_link" href="http://www.tate.org.uk/learn/online-resources/glossary/p/print" title="Glossary definition for 'Print'"><span>print</span></a> in brown but in other respects is consistent with this approach. The work was originally proofed in black and a single copy of this state exists.
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<br/><b>Published in:</b>
<br/><i>The Tate Gallery 1982-84: Illustrated Catalogue of Acquisitions</i>, London 1986
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2004-10-13T00:00:00
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cake food and drink natural phenomena objects shadow