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MARK TOBEY Atty van den Berg.
Gouache on tan wove paper, 1935. 448x298 mm; 17 5/8x11 3/4 inches. Signed and dated in watercolor, lower right recto.
Achim Moeller, Managing Principal of the Mark Tobey Project LLC, has confirmed the authenticity. The work is registered in the Mark Tobey archive with the number MT [359-01-28-22].
Provenance: Private collection, New Jersey.
Van den Berg (1913-2003) was a Dutch ballerina who danced with the Kurt Jooss Ballet company. In 1933, Jooss fled Germany and toured throughout Europe with the company, eventually settling in Devonshire, England to open a dance school at Dartington Hall in 1934. Jooss and the company were based at Dartington until 1940, contemporaneous to Tobey's residency at Dartington Hall from 1931-38. Tobey painted a mural for the dance school in 1933 for which the present drawing may have been a preliminary study.
