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Lot 213
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Antoni Tàpies

Estimate
60,000 - 80,000 GBP
bidding is closed

Description

  • Antoni Tàpies
  • Canvas with Ballpoints
  • signed on the reverse
  • mixed media, pencil and oil on canvas
  • 102.5 by 120cm.; 40 3/8 by 47 1/4 in.
  • Executed in 1970.

Provenance

Martha Jackson Gallery, New York

Exhibited

Zurich, Galerie Maeght, Antoni Tàpies, 1971, no. 38 
Göteborg, Galleri 69, Antoni Tàpies, 1975, no. 232
Lund, Konsthall; Stockholm, Prins Eugens Waldemarsudde, Tàpies, 1993-4, p. 56, no. 56, illustrated

Literature

Anna Agusti, Tàpies: The Complete Works, Volume 3: 1969-1975, Barcelona 1992, p. 164, no. 2262, illustrated

Condition

Colour: The colours in the catalogue illustration are fairly accurate, although the catalogue illustration fails to convey the green text towards the centre of the composition apparent in the original. Condition: This work is in very good condition. There are artist's holes towards all four corners and intermittently along the upstretched canvas. All surface irregularities are in keeping with the artist’s choice of medium and working process. No restoration is apparent when examined under ultra-violet night.
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