283 - ANTONI TÀPIES PUIG (Barcelona, 1923–2012).

ANTONI TÀPIES PUIG (Barcelona, 1923–2012). Untitled, 1962. Lithograph on Rives paper, print no. 25/50. Signed and numbered in pencil. Published by Sala Gaspar. Ref. Tàpies: Graphic Works, 1947–1972, p. 33. Dimensions: 77 x 56 cm; 92 x 73 cm (frame). The combination of an eroded-looking surface, an austere color palette, and marks of great gestural force links this work to the characteristic language of Antoni Tàpies. A co-founder of “Dau al Set” in 1948, he began exhibiting at the October Salons in Barcelona, as well as at the Salón de los Once held in Madrid in 1949. After holding his first solo exhibition at the Galerías Layetanas, he traveled to Paris in 1950 on a scholarship from the Institut Français. Following his 1953 solo exhibition at Martha Jackson’s New York gallery, his international reputation was solidified. He has received awards such as the Prince of Asturias Award, the Praemium Imperiale from the Japan Art Association, the National Culture Award, and the Grand Prize for Painting in France, among others, and retrospective exhibitions have been dedicated to him in Tokyo, New York, Rome, Amsterdam, Madrid, Venice, Milan, Vienna, and Brussels. His work is represented in major museums around the world, including the foundation that bears his name in Barcelona, the Reina Sofía in Madrid, the Guggenheim museums in Berlin, Bilbao, and New York, the Fukuoka Art Museum in Japan, MoMA in New York, and the Tate Gallery in London.