Private Collection Christie's, New York, November 14, 2002, lot 132 Acquired at the above sale by the late owner
Catalogue Essay
“I took three basic shapes to work with: a rectangle, an ellipse or a circle and a triangle. Well, that’s a piece of pie. A piece of pie is a triangle on a saucer… I chose a pie for a couple of reasons; because of its basic shape and because I had never seen a pie painted.” - Wayne Thiebaud
signed and dated "Thiebaud 1958" lower right gouache, watercolor, wax crayon and graphite on paper 8 1/8 x 9 1/4 in. (20.6 x 23.5 cm.) Executed in 1958.