Male nude

Details

Mark Tobey (Centerville 1890-1976 Bâle)
Male nude
pen and black ink, unframed
17 5/8 x 21¼ in. (44.8 x 54 cm.)

Provenance

Anonymous sale; Sotheby's, London, 7 May 1981, lot 664.

Special notice

This lot is offered without reserve. Artist's Resale Right ("Droit de Suite"). Artist's Resale Right Regulations 2006 apply to this lot, the buyer agrees to pay us an amount equal to the resale royalty provided for in those Regulations, and we undertake to the buyer to pay such amount to the artist's collection agent.

Sale room notice

Please note that this work will be sold unframed, and not as stated in the catalogue entry.

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Lot Essay

Mark Tobey made an initial visit in 1930 to Dartington Hall, the progressive school founded by Leonard and Dorothy Elmhirst in Devon. Coming from the Cornish School in Seattle, he returned a year later to join the international group of artists on the estate. His weekly art classes were attended by everyone on the estate who wished to draw and paint. Tobey founded, amongst other things, a study circle devoted to the Bahá'í faith to which he introduced Bernard Leach the potter.

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