Lot 29 : MARK TOBEY
Auction Location: United Kingdom - 2006
Please sign in or subscribe to Artfact Premium or Artfact Fine Art to see auction date and house information.
Please sign in or subscribe to Artfact Premium or Artfact Fine Art to view enlarged images.
Description:
PROPERTY OF A PRIVATE EUROPEAN COLLECTOR
1890-1976
BLUE INTERIOR
measurements
111.6 by 71cm.
alternate measurements
44 by 28in.
tempera on card
Executed in 1959.
This work is recorded in the Mark Tobey Archives being compiled by Paul Cummings.
PROVENANCE
Madeleine Everaert, Brussels
Thence by descent to the present owner
EXHIBITED
Brussels, Palais des Beaux Arts, Hommage à Robert Giron, 1968
Brussels, Palais des Beaux Arts, American Art in Belgium, 1977, p. 49, no. 145, illustrated
NOTE
"I cover my surface completely and I put my plastic elements into motion up to the four corners. Everything stirs, everything moves, everything becomes animated." Marc Tobey cited in Denys Chevalier, 'Une Journée Avec Marc Tobey', Aujourd'hui, No. 33, Paris, October 1961, p. 9
