in 1960 Ernst Beyeler made Tobey move to Basel where the artist lived and worked until his death.

The 1997/98  Tobey retrospective at the Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia in Madrid/Spain, curated by Kosme de Baranano and Matthias Bärmann, had been supported by Beyeler with important loans.
In March 2005 our Committee-member Matthias Bärmann made an interview with Ernst Beyeler concentrated on his friendship with Mark Tobey – see http://www.cmt-marktobey.net/News/News05.html.

Ernst Beyeler always followed up the activities of the CMT with attention and goodwill. We are mindful of our honorary member.

April 2009

In 2008 the Galleria Blu in Milan celebrates its 50^th anniversary. Since 1968 this important Italian gallery exhibited works by Mark Tobey in several group shows and will start its first one man show Mark Tobey on April 13^th , 2009 (to July 9^th ). Catalogue available.

February 2009

It will be in the city of Ravenna in Italy, famous for its mosaics, where the Museo d’Arte initiates the exhibition project dedicated to The Artist Traveller, which aims to present the itineraries of some of the most significant artists who travelled and lived outside Europe, but also to show how the other continents (Asia, Africa, The Americas and Oceania) were experienced and viewed by “western” artists – between Alberto Pasini’s 19^th century orientalism and the avant-gardes that remodelled exotic suggestions in stylistic terms. The places themselves play the leading roles in the project: the Tahiti of Gauguin and Matisse, the Siam of Chini, the  New Guinea of Nolde and Pechstein. Creative experiences, such as the trip to Tunisia made in 1905 by Kandinsky and Münter and in 1914 by Klee, Macke and Moilliet will be retraced by the exhibition which set out from the results of 19 ^th century realism, passing by of postimpressionism to the expressionism, surrealism and the abstraction of the 1950ies with Dubuffet, Tobey and Alechinsky,