Lithograph in colors on BFK Rives wove paper (watermark)
France/Spain, 1974
Antoni Tàpies (1923-2012) – Spanish painter, graphic artist and sculptor
Signed lower right in pencil ‘tàpies’
Inscribed lower left in pencil ‘p.a.’
With the blindstamp of Erker-Presse St. Gallen
Catalog raisonné: Galfetti 395
Image dimensions: 55 x 75.3 cm
Very good condition
Antoni Tàpies is considered one of the most important artists of the 20th century, and as the best-known representatives of the Spanish Art Informel; the auction record for a monotype by Antoni Tàpies is set at more than 59,000 euro
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This color lithograph in colors was printed in 1974 at the Erker-Presse in St. Gallen to which Tàpies maintained a long-term and close relationship since a stay in St. Gallen in the early 1960s. It shows a piece of cloth that is shared with folds in eight rectangular segments. In each segment a red number, partly crossed out or drawn over, is inscribed, a typical element in Tàpies’ pictorial writing.

The lithograph in colors is signed lower right in pencil ‘tàpies’ and inscribed lower left in pencil ‘p.a.’. The sheet is in very good condition. The image measures 55 x 75.3 cm, the sheet 36.8 x 90.3 cm.



Antoni Tapiès (1923-2012)

Antoni Tapiès is one of the main representatives of Spanish Art Informel. In the style of the ‘pintura matèrica’ movement, he mixed materials like sand, cement, marble dust and glue in his paintings, adding letters, symbols and crosses. He taught himself to draw and paint while still at school. Tapiès attended law school for three years, and then studied painting at the Acadèmia Valls in Barcelona. He was among the founders of the art group ‘Dau al Set’, a movement with links to the surrealist and Dadaist artists. His interest for philosophy led him to read existentialist literature. Tapiès’s works are represented in international museums and were shown at the Venice Biennale and documenta in Kassel. In 1884, Tapiès founded the Fundació Antoni Tàpies in Barcelona, where he lived and worked until his death in 2012. In 2010, he was honored with the title ‘Marqués’ by the Spanish king Juan Carlos I. (fea)

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