Galerie Jeanne Bucher Jaeger
Mark Tobey
Tobey or not to be?Curator: Jean-Gabriel de Bueil, Véronique Jaeger, Emmanuel Jaeger and Stanislas Ract-Madoux with the participation of the MNAM cci Centre Pompidou
On the occasion of the 130th anniversary of the birth of Mark Tobey (1890 – 1976), the exhibition offers a convergence of perspectives: that of the the Galerie Jeanne Bucher Jaeger, the artist’s historical gallery in Europe, that of a French private collection, the Collection de Bueil & Ract-Madoux and that of a Museum the Mnam / Cci Centre Pompidou. For this exhibition, a catalogue has been published by Gallimard with contributions by Laurence Bertrand Dorléac, Cécile Debray, Dr. David Anfam, Etienne Klein, Stéphane Lambert and Thomas Schlesser.
In addition to the previous 2010 retrospective organized at the gallery by Véronique Jaeger to celebrate the 120th anniversary of the artist’s birth, as well as the continuous presentations the gallery has regularly organized throughout the years, the gallery recently contributed, through the loan of works, to the important retrospective Mark Tobey: Threading Light (curated by Debra Bricker Balken) at the Peggy Guggenheim Collection in Venice and the Addison Gallery of American Art in Andover in 2017-2018, as well as to his 2018 solo exhibition at the Pace Gallery in New York.
This non-commercial solo exhibition presents some forty essential works by the artist spanning thirty years of creative activity, from 1940 to 1970. There hasn’t been a solo exhibition of his works in a French Museum since the 1961 exhibition at the Musée des Arts décoratifs in Paris, nearly 60 years ago.The exhibition is scheduled to travel in Europe, first to Lisbon in 2021, then to Venice in 2022.
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Mark Tobey (1890—1976)
Black Flute 1953Tempera, watercolor and ink on paper on boardWillard Gallery, New YorkWhitney Museum of American Art, New York, 1954 -
Mark Tobey (1890—1976)
Totem 1954Tempera on paperJean Larcade collection, ParisRevue «XXè siècle» n°XII, Psychologie de la technique, 1959 -
Mark Tobey (1890—1976)
Jazz Singer 1954Gouache, ink and pencil on paperThe Collection of Nelson & Happy Rockefeller, New YorkTwentieth-Century Art from the Nelson Aldrich Rockefeller Collection, MoMA, 1969 -
Mark Tobey (1890—1976)
Untitled 1955Gouache, graphite and watercolor on paperRosamond Bernier collection, New YorkYoshii Gallery, New York, 1994 -
Mark Tobey (1890—1976)
Sumi (Composition n°1) 1957Sumi ink on paper on canvasGalerie Stadler, ParisThe Museum of Modern Art, New York, 1962 -
Mark Tobey (1890—1976)
Extensions from Baghdad II 1957Tempera on paper mounted on boardWillard Gallery, New YorkMilena Milani Collection, Venice -
Mark Tobey (1890—1976)
Morning Light 1957Tempera, pastel and graphite on paper laid down on boardCollection Elaine Graham Weitzen, New-York -
Mark Tobey (1890—1976)
Circular Composition 1958Tempera and ink on paper laid down to card paperWillard Gallery, New YorkDorothy Langdon and Aldus H. Chapin Collection, Washington DC -
Mark Tobey (1890—1976)
Pierced Space 1959Tempera and incisions on card laid on cardboardMark Tobey CollectionGalerie Beyeler, Basel - Musée des Arts Décoratifs, Paris 1961 -
Mark Tobey (1890—1976)
Arabesque of the Night 1960Tempera and glue on boardGalerie Jeanne Bucher Jaeger, ParisMark Tobey Peintures d’Aujourd’hui, Françoise Choay Hazan, 1961 -
Mark Tobey (1890—1976)
Forest Pattern 1968Tempera and glue on paperGalerie Jeanne Bucher Jaeger, ParisFundação Árpád Szenes-Vieira da Silva, Lisbonne, 1995