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Original aquatint with softground etching and drypoint printed in colors on Somerset Satin wove paper. Trial proof impression, apart from the numbered edition of 60, annotated in pencil lower left. Sheet size: 77.5 x 103.5 cm (30 1/2 x 40 3/4 in) Image size: 55.2 x 80.3 cm (21 3/4 x 31 5/8 in) Frame size: 91.8 x 115.3 x 4.8 cm (36 1/8 x 45 3/8 x 1 7/8 in)// Country City is one of Thiebaud's most celebrated compositions, capturing the dramatic collision of rural landscape and urban geometry that defines the Sacramento region. On the left, a steep brown hillside crowned with pink-red trees drops away vertiginously; on the right, a dense grid of city blocks, rooftops, and facades rises in saturated colour. The aquatint, softground etching, and drypoint technique yields extraordinary textural richness, from the velvety earth tones of the hillside to the crisp architectural lines of the cityscape. This is a major work from the artist's most sought-after period, embodying the exhilarating tension between nature and civilisation that makes his vision so distinctive and enduring.
Country City, 1988
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Original aquatint with softground etching and drypoint printed in colors on Somerset Satin wove paper. Trial proof impression, apart from the numbered edition of 60, annotated in pencil lower left. Sheet size: 77.5 x 103.5 cm (30 1/2 x 40 3/4 in) Image size: 55.2 x 80.3 cm (21 3/4 x 31 5/8 in) Frame size: 91.8 x 115.3 x 4.8 cm (36 1/8 x 45 3/8 x 1 7/8 in)// Country City is one of Thiebaud's most celebrated compositions, capturing the dramatic collision of rural landscape and urban geometry that defines the Sacramento region. On the left, a steep brown hillside crowned with pink-red trees drops away vertiginously; on the right, a dense grid of city blocks, rooftops, and facades rises in saturated colour. The aquatint, softground etching, and drypoint technique yields extraordinary textural richness, from the velvety earth tones of the hillside to the crisp architectural lines of the cityscape. This is a major work from the artist's most sought-after period, embodying the exhilarating tension between nature and civilisation that makes his vision so distinctive and enduring.
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What is Bay Area Figurative Art ?
The Bay Area Figurative Movement, which also goes by the names Bay Area Figurative School, Bay Area Figurative Art, or Bay Area Figuration, came to existence in San-Francisco Bay Area. This was in the mid-20th century, when a group of artists from the area stopped working on the then popular Abstract Expressionism for a preference to figuration in painting. The movement lasted a total of two decades during the 1950's and 1960's.
