Antiques & Art
OCTOBER by Mark Tobey
- Item Number
- 1811
- Estimated Value
- 1800 USD
- Sold
- 1500 USD to Live Event Bidder
Item Description
Lithograph, 1970. 17 x 26 ¼". Signed, dated and numbered, from the editon of 200.
The densely-structured compositions of this American pinter command high prices in an international market. There were major retrospectives of the artist’s work at the Museum of Modern Art in 1962 and the National Collection of Fine Arts, in Washington, D.C., in 1974.
Mark Tobey became interested in printmaking after 1960 when he settled in Basel, Switzerland. The artist, who had traveled extensively in America, Europe and Asia, was drawn to the city and remained there for the rest of his life. The lithographs in the Gallery’s collection demonstrate Tobey’s distinctive ‘white writing’, the technique for which he was best known. On a foundation of abstract marks, he overlaid thousands of small and interwoven calligraphic symbols. The artist likened this microscopic web of interconnected brushstrokes to ‘chlorophyll in the veins of a leaf’.
Tobey was very conscious of his place on the cusp of Eastern and Western tradition; his ideas about interconnectivity were closely related to his Bahai faith. He said, ‘It is better to feel a painting than to look at it.’ The illusion of flatness in these works gives way to sense of multi-layered depth. The pulsating lines—which extend in every direction and beyond the boundaries of the pictorial frame—are countered by a meditative energy. Tobey’s work is often compared to Pollock’s, and some accounts represent his work as the inspiration for paintings such as Blue poles. Certainly, the ‘all-over’ quality evident in Tobey’s lithographs has many similarities to Pollock’s approach, albeit in miniature.
Item Special Note
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Donated By:
Ted Donson and Marvel Griepp
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