Antoni Tapies (after) - Chut (Barcelona) ** ORIGINAL LITHOGRAPHIC PRINT **

Original lithograph by the Spanish artist Antoni Tàpies (*).
This work was published on the occasion of the 1982 FIFA World Cup in Spain to promote Barcelona as a host city.
Deluxe edition on matte cotton paper.
Signed in the plate.
Printed by the Societé de Production des Affiches Maeght under the supervision of Eduardo Chillida.
Large format

Specifications:

Dimensions: 95 x 60 cm
Year: 1982
Condition: Excellent (this work has never been framed or displayed and has always been kept in a professional art portfolio, so it is offered in perfect condition).
Provenance: Private collection.

The work will be handled carefully and packed in reinforced cardboard packaging. It will be sent by registered mail with a tracking number.

The shipment will also include transport insurance for the final value of the work, with a full refund in the event of loss or damage, at no cost to the buyer.

(*) Antoni Tàpies was born in Barcelona, Spain, in 1923. He studied law while also taking drawing classes at the Valls Academy (1943). The military uprising led by General Franco from Morocco spread throughout Spain and led to the Civil War. Antoni Tàpies, an opponent of the dictator from within Spain, was permanently marked by this atrocious war.
In 1948, he co-founded the group “Dau al Set” and the magazine of the same name. He met Joan Miró. After a period of producing Surrealist works, Tàpies became interested in philosophy and Eastern art, especially calligraphy. Tàpies transformed a wide range of materials, often the humblest, into pictorial signs.
His first solo exhibition was organized in 1950. The artist incorporated colors and fossils into thickly textured layers of glue, sand, and plaster, which would become “walls bearing witness to the martyrdom of our people.” Tàpies used newspaper and pieces of string in collages with provocative social meaning.
In 1951, in Paris, he met Braque and Picasso, discovered Informalism with Dubuffet and Fautrier, and encountered the writings of Michel Tapié. Toward the end of the 1960s, the artist turned to more figurative compositions. The cross is a recurring sign in his work, both in his paintings and in the many graphic works he produced alongside them. His torn and scratched compositions continued to express a critical stance. Imprints and traces reveal an inner meditation.
From the beginning of the 1980s, Tàpies created “installations” and devoted himself to ceramics and mosaic art. From 1962 onward, major museums organized retrospectives of his work (Hanover in 1962, Vienna in 1968, the Museum of Modern Art in Paris in 1973, and a traveling retrospective in the United States in 1988…).
Antoni Tàpies wrote several books reflecting on art, including “The Practice of Art” (1970) and “Art Against Aesthetics” (1974). Antoni Tàpies lived and worked in Barcelona, the city where his Foundation, established in 1984, is located. The artist died on February 6, 2012, at the age of 88.