Antoni Tàpies - Tapies - 1964-1971





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Two historical publications on the Catalan artist Antoni Tàpies, Tapies: the 1971 Rome Exhibition Catalog (Antoni Tàpies. Opere 1946–1970, 102 pages) and the 1964 Spanish Monograph (Tàpies, Selección, montaje e interpretación, 176 pages), both in excellent condition.
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These are two historically important publications for the bibliography of the Catalan artist.
1. The Catalogue of the Rome Exhibition (Top, gray cover)
Title: Antoni Tàpies. Works 1946 - 1970
Institution: Galleria Il Collezionista d'Arte Contemporanea, Rome
Curators / Texts: Essays and critical apparatus curated by Nello Ponente and Giuseppe Gatt
Year of publication: 1971
Description: Official softcover catalogue of the famous exhibition held in Rome from April to May 1971. The splendid embossed gray cover reproduces the imprint of two feet pressed into the material, a direct reference to the artist's renowned textures and to the informal materiality.
Technical specifications: 102 total pages. Inside, it features a rich selection of full-page black-and-white and color plates.
2. The Great Spanish Monograph (Bottom, white cover)
Title: Tàpies (Selección, montaje e interpretación)
Author of the texts: Blai Bonet (celebrated Majorcan poet and writer)
Publisher: Edicions La Polígrafa, Barcelona
Year of publication: 1964 (First edition)
Description: A milestone of Spanish art publishing. This monumental monograph, with a rigid brown cloth binding and a white dust jacket, features an extraordinary internal photographic montage curated directly in Spain.
Technical specifications: 176 total pages. Contains about 120 reproductions of full-page and doppia-page works.
These are two historically important publications for the bibliography of the Catalan artist.
1. The Catalogue of the Rome Exhibition (Top, gray cover)
Title: Antoni Tàpies. Works 1946 - 1970
Institution: Galleria Il Collezionista d'Arte Contemporanea, Rome
Curators / Texts: Essays and critical apparatus curated by Nello Ponente and Giuseppe Gatt
Year of publication: 1971
Description: Official softcover catalogue of the famous exhibition held in Rome from April to May 1971. The splendid embossed gray cover reproduces the imprint of two feet pressed into the material, a direct reference to the artist's renowned textures and to the informal materiality.
Technical specifications: 102 total pages. Inside, it features a rich selection of full-page black-and-white and color plates.
2. The Great Spanish Monograph (Bottom, white cover)
Title: Tàpies (Selección, montaje e interpretación)
Author of the texts: Blai Bonet (celebrated Majorcan poet and writer)
Publisher: Edicions La Polígrafa, Barcelona
Year of publication: 1964 (First edition)
Description: A milestone of Spanish art publishing. This monumental monograph, with a rigid brown cloth binding and a white dust jacket, features an extraordinary internal photographic montage curated directly in Spain.
Technical specifications: 176 total pages. Contains about 120 reproductions of full-page and doppia-page works.

