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MARK TOBEY (1890-1976)

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$ 400 000
Auction dateClassic
18.05.2023 01:00UTC -04:00
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CHRISTIE'S
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ID 949292
Lot 50 | MARK TOBEY (1890-1976)
MARK TOBEY (1890-1976)

Burst of Spring

signed, inscribed and dated 'Tobey 64 Bâle' (lower right)

tempera, wax crayon and graphite on paper

45 1/2 x 24 3/4 in. (115.5 x 62.8 cm.)

Painted in 1964.





Provenance

Otto Seligman Gallery, Seattle

Mr. and Mrs. Arthur L. Dahl, Pebble Beach

Mr. and Mrs. Sheffield Phelps, Seattle

Private collection, New York

Acquired from the above by the present owner



Literature

H. J. Weeks, "Pacific Heritage," Artforum, vol. 3, no. 8, May 1965, p. 50.

H. Haggie, "Tobey Collection Beautiful, Serene in Tasteful Setting," The Lincoln Star, 10 September 1967, p. 64.

M. Tobey and A. Dahl, Mark Tobey: Art and Belief, Norway, 1984, pp. 31 and 118, no. 10 (illustrated).



Exhibited

Los Angeles, Municipal Art Gallery, Pacific Heritage, March-April 1965, n.p., no. 6 (illustrated).

Palo Alto, Stanford University Art Gallery; Lincoln, University of Nebraska Art Gallery; Chicago, Roosevelt University Art Gallery; University of California Santa Barbara Art Gallery, Mark Tobey: Paintings from the Collection of Joyce and Arthur Dahl, June-October 1967, pp. 23 and 44, no. 55, pl. 25 (illustrated).

Dallas Museum of Fine Arts, Mark Tobey Retrospective, March-April 1968, no. 111.

Seattle, Foster/White Gallery, Mark Tobey, May 1973, n.p., no. FW27 (illustrated).

New York, Pace Gallery, Mark Tobey, October 2018-January 2019, n.p., no. 66 (illustrated).



Post lot text

Achim Moeller, Managing Principal of the Mark Tobey Project LLC, has confirmed the authenticity. The work is registered in the Mark Tobey archive with the number MT [396-04-07-23].
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