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| Image | Sale date | Auction house | Location | Sale name | Lot No. | Estimate | Price Sold | Condition | Title |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
May 15, 2019 | Phillips | New York | 20th Century & Contemporary Art Day Sale Morning Session | 187 | $****** - ****** | Desert Town (Wild City) | |||
May 9, 2012 | Christie's | New York | Post-War and Contemporary Art Morning Session | 244 | $****** - ****** | Desert Town (Wild City) | |||
Jun 21, 2007 | Christie's | London | Post-War & Contemporary Art - Day Sale | 380 | $****** - ****** | Desert town, wild city |
paintings
109.2 x 68.9 cm (42.99 x 27.13 in)
oil and gouache on card mounted on Masonite
signed and dated “Tobey 50” lower right
Willard Gallery, New York
Betty McClean Gallery, Dallas
Galerie Jeanne Bucher, Paris
Michel Tapié, Paris (acquired by 1961)
Galerie Beyeler, Basel
Martha Jackson, Buffalo
Mr. & Mrs. David K. Anderson, New York (acquired thence by descent)
Christie's, London, June 21, 2007, lot 380
Private Collection, New York (acquired at the above sale)
San Francisco, California Palace of the Legion of Honor, 5th Annual Exhibition of Contemporary American Painting, January 24 - March 2, 1952, n.p. (illustrated)
The Renaissance Society at the University of Chicago, Mark Tobey, April 18 - May 14, 1952, no. 13
Paris, Galerie Jeanne Bucher, Tobey, November 27, 1959 - January 16, 1960
Turin, Civico Padiglione d'Arte Contemporanea, da Boldini a Pollock, Pittura e scultura del XX secolo, October 12 - November 5, 1961, p. 154 (illustrated, p. 130)
Basel, Galerie Beyeler, Tobey, on the occasion of his 80th birthday, December 1970 – February 1971, no. 10
Washington, D.C., National Collection of Fine Arts, Smithsonian Institution, Tribute to Mark Tobey, June 7 - September 8, 1974, no. 17, p. 107 (illustrated, p. 43)
New York, Haunch of Venison, Abstract Expressionism - A World Elsewhere, September 12 - November 12, 2008, no. 60, pp. 122, 149 (illustrated, p. 123)
Louise Baillard, “Art, San Francisco”, Arts & Architecture, vol. 69, no. 3, March 1952, p. 7
Mark Tobey, Basel, 1971, no. 11, pp. 23, 93 (illustrated, p. 37)
signed and dated “Tobey 50” lower right
oil and gouache on card mounted on Masonite
43 x 27 1/8 in. (109.2 x 68.9 cm.)
Executed in 1950.
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 [132-1-3-11].
