Painted in 1960, Mark Tobey's Untitled is a beautiful work that was created at jubilant moment in the artist's career. In the mid-1950s, Tobey had reached what MoMA curator William C. Seitz called "international prominence". His retrospective exhibitions at the Institute of Contemporary Art, London and his first solo show in Paris, at the Galerie Jeanne Bucher in 1955, cemented his reputation in Europe. This period of success was crowned when he was awarded the International Great Prize at the Venice Biennale of 1958; soon after, in 1961, he became the first non-French artist ever to get a solo show at the prestigious Musée des Arts Décoratifs in Paris.
