Lot #1295: MARK TOBEY - Raindrop Prism #4 - Oil and tempera on board

 

Artist: Mark Tobey (American, 1890 - 1976).
Title: "Raindrop Prism #4".
Medium: Oil and tempera on board.
Date: Composed 1965.
Dimensions: Overall size: 13 3/4 x 9 7/8 in. (349 x 251 mm).
Lot Note(s): Signed lower right. Fine condition with no issues noted. 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. [29862-2-4000]