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Sotheby's: Contemporary Art Evening: Lot 29

MARK TOBEY

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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

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Auction House

Sotheby's

Auction Title

Contemporary Art Evening

Auction Date

2006

Location

United Kingdom

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