
Mark Tobey
Du fond d'un songe, 1970

Mark Tobey
Du fond d'un songe c. 1970
Original lithograph in colors on "B.F.K. Rives …

Abstract painter Mark Tobey strived to represent the mystical through art. Inspired by international travels, Eastern religion, Arabic calligraphy, classical music, and the emerging modes of Abstract Expressionism, Tobey created a unique visual language of all-over painting and gestural abstraction, which he called “white writing.” “What I had learned in the Orient had affected more than I realized,” he said. “In a short time white writing emerged. I had a totally new conception of painting.” When working in this technique, Tobey would place white calligraphic marks and symbols atop an abstract field composed of thousands of densely interwoven brushstrokes.


Mark Tobey
Du fond d'un songe c. 1970
Original lithograph in colors on "B.F.K. Rives " paper.
Even if this lithograph was published in 1978, it was printed by Erker-Presse and hand signed by the artist in 1970
Numbered 1/115 Hand-signed
This lithograph was printed for rare portfolio "Jean …

Abstract painter Mark Tobey strived to represent the mystical through art. Inspired by international travels, Eastern religion, Arabic calligraphy, classical music, and the emerging modes of Abstract Expressionism, Tobey created a unique visual language of all-over painting and gestural abstraction, which he called “white writing.” “What I had learned in the Orient had affected more than I realized,” he said. “In a short time white writing emerged. I had a totally new conception of painting.” When working in this technique, Tobey would place white calligraphic marks and symbols atop an abstract field composed of thousands of densely interwoven brushstrokes.