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Antoni Tàpies
No. 1, from Poems from the Catalan II, 1973

No. 1, from Poems from the Catalan II

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Lithograph, printed in green, brown and black ink, from three stones/plates.
Edition: 35/75
75.0 × 55.0cm (sheet)
Printed at La Polígrafa, Barcelona

Published by Guiness Button Publishing, London

 

From the series Poems from the Catalan II, a collaboration with the poet Joan Brossa.

Each lithograph by Tàpies from the Poems from the Catalan II series is sold with a single two-sided sheet featuring Joan Brossa's visual poetry, translated by Arthur Terry.

 
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Antoni Tàpies (b. 1923, d. 2012) was born in Barcelona into a family of booksellers and Catalan nationalist politicians. He was an influential catalyst in the global phenomenon of postwar gestural abstraction (named variously ‘abstract expressionism’, ‘tachisme’ or ‘art informel’). He has been called ‘unquestionably the leading figure in [Spain’s] art world of the second half of the twentieth century’ (Manuel Borja-Villel, Antoni Tàpies: the Resources of Rhetoric. Dia Beacon, 2009).


Important solo exhibitions devoted to Tàpies’ have been presented in the Guggenheim Museum, New York (1962 and 1995); Kunsthaus Zürich (1962); Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam (1980); Museum of Modern Art, New York (1991); Serpentine Gallery, London (1992); Jeu de Paume, Paris (1994); Museo Reina Sofia, Madrid (2000); Haus der Kunst, Munich (2000); MACBA, Barcelona (2004); Dia Beacon (2009), and Museum für Gegenwartskunst Siegen (2022).

 
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