Mark TOBEY : Meanders, 1976 — plate II (artist’s seal), 35/77

By TOBEY Mark (1890-1976)

Mark Tobey (1890–1976)
Meanders, 1976 — plate II

From the portfolio Meanders (nine plates)

Original colour screenprint on Richard de Bas handmade paper, with watermark

Numbered 35/77 in pencil lower left, stamped with the artist’s seal lower right, publisher’s blindstamp Edition Lanz lower right. On the verso: the artist’s seal stamped in red and the signature in ink of Mark Ritter, Tobey’s secretary and executor of his estate.

Dimensions:
+ Sheet : approx. 66 × 50 cm (26 × 19 3/4 in.)
+ Image : approx. 40 × 28 cm (15 3/4 × 11 in.)

Condition: Very good condition. Deckle edges intact. Faint surface marks in the upper margin, visible in raking light.

Printed and published by Edition Lanz, Basel. Edition of 77 numbered impressions, plus a few H.C. and E.A. proofs.

Meanders is Tobey’s last work: nine original screenprints “in the old Chinese manner”, designed and approved by the artist with Edition Lanz in Basel. Tobey died on 24 April 1976, before the edition could be signed; the portfolio was issued posthumously the same year, each impression bearing the artist’s seal in place of his signature and signed on the verso by Mark Ritter on behalf of the estate. The portfolio’s justification page states this explicitly and describes the accompanying texts: four pages of statements by Tobey, an original poem by the artist and two pages by Ritter on the genesis of the work. An original print validated by the artist, not a reproduction.

Reference: The Museum of Modern Art, New York, inv. 1096.1979.1-9 (complete portfolio).

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Price : 350,00 € ( 403.00 USD )