Antoni Tàpies
1960s Antoni Tàpies lithograph (derriere le miroir)
1967

Name: 1960s Antoni Tàpies lithograph (derriere le miroir)
Brand: Antoni Tàpies
Price: 400 USD
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About the Item

Antoni Tàpies Lithograph c. 1967 from Derrière le miroir: Lithograph in colors; 15 x 22 inches. Very good overall vintage condition; contains center fold-line as originally issued; well preserved. Unsigned from an edition of unknown. From: Derrière le miroir Printed in France c. 1967. Looks excellent framed. Derrière le miroir: In October 1945 the French art dealer Aimé Maeght opens his art gallery at 13 Rue de Téhéran in Paris. His beginning coincides with the end of Second World War and the return of a number of exiled artists back to France. The publication was created in October 1946 (n°1) and published without interruption until 1982 (n°253). Its original articles and illustrations (mainly original color lithographs by the gallery artists) who were famous at the time. The lithographic publication covered only the artists exhibited by Maeght gallery either through personal or group exhibitions. Among them were, Pierre Alechinsky, Francis Bacon, Alexander Calder, Marc Chagall, Eduardo Chillida, Alberto Giacometti, Vassily Kandinsky, Ellsworth Kelly, Fernand Léger, Henri Matisse, Joan Miró, Saul Steinberg and Antoni Tapies. Antoni Tàpies was a Spanish artist known for his mixed-media paintings that incorporated marble dust, found objects, and resin as seen in his seminal work Grey and Green Painting (1957). Social themes run throughout his highly textured and tactile paintings, which were influenced by his experience of the politics and environment of the wartime and the postwar state of the Spanish government. “If one draws things in a manner which provides only the barest clue to their meaning, the viewer is forced to fill in the gaps by using his own imagination,” he reflected. “He is compelled to participate in the creative act, which I consider very important.” Born on December 13, 1923 in Barcelona, Spain, he originally studied law while pursuing art, he became a friend of his fellow Catalan Joan Miró who was an integral influence on Tàpies’s early Surrealist work. Incorporating the scrawling marks of Paul Klee, Tàpies joined the Art Informel movement, as his work turned toward the abstract and seemingly anticipated the Arte Povera movement. Over the several decades to follow, the artist became more nuanced in his choice of materials and attempted to convey the accidental marks of walls and graffiti. He died on February 6, 2012 in Barcelona, Spain. Today, his works are held in the Fundació Antoni Tàpies Museum in Barcelona, The Museum of Modern Art in New York, the Tate Gallery in London, and the Reina Sofia National Museum in Madrid, among others. Related Categories: Spanish painters. Mid Century Modern prints. 1960s. Contemporary Art. Abstract art. Miro. Calder. 60s design prints.

Creator:

Antoni Tàpies (1923 - 2012, Spanish)

Creation Year:

1967

Dimensions:

Height: 15 in (38.1 cm)Width: 22 in (55.88 cm)

Medium:

Lithograph

Movement & Style:

Contemporary

Period:

1960-1969