(Centerville 1890–1976 Basel) Tropical Garden, 1969, signed Tobey, tempera on Ingres paper, 60.5 x 52 cm, framed This work is accompanied by a photo certificate from the Committee Mark Tobey Münster, 19 November 2013. Provenance: K. and M. Schaub Collection, Basel - acquired directly from the artist Private Collection, Germany Private Collection, Switzerland Exhibited: Münster, Galerie Hachmeister, Mark Tobey - Light Space, 2004, exh. cat. page 95 ill. Münster, Galerie Hachmeister, Ways to Asia, 2013, exh. cat. page 147 ill. Basel, Galerie Carzaniga, Smash 137 - Niklaus Stoecklin - Mark Tobey - Yves Dana, 16 May - 22 June 2019 The old Chinese used to say: “It is better to feel a painting than to look at it.” So much today is only to look at. It is one thing to paint a picture and another to experience it; in attempting to find on what level one accepts this experience, one discovers what one sees and on what level the discovery takes place. Christopher Columbus left in search of one world and discovered another. Mark Tobey
(Centerville 1890–1976 Basel) Tropical Garden, 1969, signed Tobey, tempera on Ingres paper, 60.5 x 52 cm, framed This work is accompanied by a photo certificate from the Committee Mark Tobey Münster, 19 November 2013. Provenance: K. and M. Schaub Collection, Basel - acquired directly from the artist Private Collection, Germany Private Collection, Switzerland Exhibited: Münster, Galerie Hachmeister, Mark Tobey - Light Space, 2004, exh. cat. page 95 ill. Münster, Galerie Hachmeister, Ways to Asia, 2013, exh. cat. page 147 ill. Basel, Galerie Carzaniga, Smash 137 - Niklaus Stoecklin - Mark Tobey - Yves Dana, 16 May - 22 June 2019 The old Chinese used to say: “It is better to feel a painting than to look at it.” So much today is only to look at. It is one thing to paint a picture and another to experience it; in attempting to find on what level one accepts this experience, one discovers what one sees and on what level the discovery takes place. Christopher Columbus left in search of one world and discovered another. Mark Tobey
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