Mark Tobey

Testament

Auction Closed

May 16, 09:24 PM GMT

Estimate

15,000 - 20,000 USD

Lot Details

Description

Modern Perspectives: The Collection of Rolf & Margit Weinberg

Mark Tobey

1890 - 1976

Testament

signed and dated 44 (lower right)

tempera and gouache on board

17 ⅞ by 11 ¾ in.

45.4 by 29.8 cm.

Executed in 1944.

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 [177-9-12-14].

Leon and Teiko Applebaum, Seattle

Willard Gallery, New York

Foster/White Gallery, Seattle

Kurt Lidtke Gallery, Seattle

Private Collection (acquired from the above in 2000)

Bonhams New York, 13 May 2014, lot 104 (consigned by the above)

Acquired at the above sale by the present owner

Portland Art Museum; San Francisco Museum of Modern Art; Chicago, The Arts Club and Detroit Institute of the Arts, Paintings by Mark Tobey, July 1945 - March 1946

New York, Whitney Museum of American Art; San Francisco, California Palace of the Legion of Honor; Seattle, Henry Art Gallery and Santa Barbara Museum of Art, Mark Tobey Retrospective, March - November 1951, no. 1165.50

Seattle, Kurt Lidtke Gallery, Mark Tobey Retrospective, November - December 1998, no. 17