Lot #122: MARK TOBEY - Composition #4 - Original color pencil drawing on paper

 

Artist: Mark Tobey (American, 1890 - 1976).
Title: "Composition #4".
Medium: Original color pencil drawing on paper.
Date: Composed 1971.
Dimensions: Overall size: 8 1/2 x 13 3/8 in. (216 x 340 mm).
Pricing:
  Starting Price: $800
  Reserve Price: N.A.
  Auction Sale Price Estimate: $1,200/1,500
Lot Note(s): Signed and dated, lower right. White wove paper. Very good to fine condition; lower edge unevenly trimmed, else fine.
Comment(s): Tobey was a mystical Wisconsin-born artist whose works had a visual affinity with Abstract Expressionism but shared more in common with Asian art and calligraphy (he studied at a Zen monastery in Kyoto, Japan, in the 1930s). Image copyright © The Estate of Mark Tobey / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York. [29805-2-800-NA]