.jpg?w=1)
Space Ritual #3
Details
Mark Tobey (1890-1976)
Space Ritual #3
signed and dated 'Tobey '57' (lower right)
sumi ink on paper laid down on board
29 x 21¼ in. (73.7 x 54 cm.)
Painted in 1957.
Space Ritual #3
signed and dated 'Tobey '57' (lower right)
sumi ink on paper laid down on board
29 x 21¼ in. (73.7 x 54 cm.)
Painted in 1957.
Provenance
Willard Gallery, New York
Acquired from the above by the present owner, 1960
Acquired from the above by the present owner, 1960
Literature
D. Ashton, Modern American Painting, New York, 1970, p. 14 (illustrated).
V. Raynor, "Justice for the Abstract Expressionists," The New York Times, 15 April 1990, sec. 12WC, p. 19 (illustrated).
V. Raynor, "Justice for the Abstract Expressionists," The New York Times, 15 April 1990, sec. 12WC, p. 19 (illustrated).
Exhibited
New York, Willard Gallery, Mark Tobey: Sumi Ink Paintings, November-December 1957.
Spoleto, Festival of Two Worlds; Jerusalem, Bezalel National Museum; Athens Technological Institute; Helsinki, Art Hall and Bonn, Haus der Stadtische Kunstsammlungen, Modern American Drawings, June 1961-September 1962, no. 63 (illustrated, Spoleto); no. 59 (Athens); no. 69 (Bonn). New York, Katonah Museum of Art, Watercolors from the Abstract Expressionist Era, April-June 1990, no. 12 (illustrated).
Spoleto, Festival of Two Worlds; Jerusalem, Bezalel National Museum; Athens Technological Institute; Helsinki, Art Hall and Bonn, Haus der Stadtische Kunstsammlungen, Modern American Drawings, June 1961-September 1962, no. 63 (illustrated, Spoleto); no. 59 (Athens); no. 69 (Bonn). New York, Katonah Museum of Art, Watercolors from the Abstract Expressionist Era, April-June 1990, no. 12 (illustrated).
Sale room notice
Please note that this work is illustrated upside-down in the catalogue.