LOT DETAILS

Materials:

tempera on paper laid on board

Measurements:

23.78 in. (60.40 cm.) (height) by 17.99 in. (45.70 cm.) (width)

Markings:

signed and dated 'Tobey 53' (lower left)

Exhibited:

San José, State College, Mark Tobey, 1958. San Francisco, Frederic Hobbs Fine Art Gallery, Masterworks by Mark Tobey. 16 Masterpieces on loan from the Arthur and Joyce Dahl Collection, 1960. Stanford, Stanford University Art Gallery, Mark Tobey, 1967-1968, no. 10 (illustrated, p. 30). This exhibition later travelled to Lincoln, University of Nebraska Art Galleries; Chicago, Roosevelt University and Santa Barbara, The Art Gallery, University of California. Dallas, Museum of Fine Arts, Mark Tobey Retrospective, 1968, no. 59. New York, M. Knoedler & Co., Mark Tobey, 1976, no. 20 (illustrated in color). Madrid, Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia, Mark Tobey, 1997-1998 (illustrated in color, p. 233). Ravenna, Museo d'Arte della citta, L'artista viaggiatore da Gauguin a Klee, da Matisse a Ontani, 2009 (illustrated in color, p. 164).

Literature:

A. L. Dahl, Mark Tobey. Art and Belief, Oxford 1984, no. 5 (illustrated in color, p. 14). D. Zbitowkski, Geheimnisvolle Zeichen Fremd Schriften in der Malerei des 20. Jahrhunderts, Göttingen 1996, no. 88 (illustrated).

Provenance:

Willard Gallery, New York. Mr. & Mrs. Arthur Dahl, Carmel (acquired in 1953). M. Knoedler & Co, Inc., New York. Private Collection, New York. Anon. sale, Christie's New York, 3 November 1994, lot 199. Acquired at the above sale by the present owner.