Lot #500: MARK TOBEY - Raindrop Prism #3 - Oil and tempera on paper

 

Artist: Mark Tobey (American, 1890 - 1976).
Title: "Raindrop Prism #3".
Medium: Oil and tempera on paper.
Date: Composed 1965.
Dimensions: Overall size: 11 5/8 x 8 3/16 in. (295 x 208 mm).
Pricing:
  Starting Price: $3,000
  Reserve Price: N.A.
  Auction Sale Price Estimate: $4,000/5,000
Lot Note(s): Signed lower right. Fine condition with no issues noted.
Comment(s): An oil on paper work with a similar composition but much smaller size sold for $3,750 at Christie's New York, July 16, 2012, lot #120. 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. [29808-2-3000-NA]