Antoni Tapies (1923-2012) - Diana

Description
Original signed lithograph by Antoni Tàpies (1923–2012), one of the most important European artists of the post-war period and a leading figure of Art Informel / Informalism.

Title: Diana
Year: 1973
Technique: Polychrome lithograph on Zerkall paper
Edition: XIX/XX
Signature: Signed in pencil lower right
Numbered: Lower left
Publisher: Erker-Presse, St. Gallen
Sheet size: 76 × 56 cm
Condition: Unframed. Light age and handling wear. Please see photographs for condition.

Catalogue reference:
Mariuccia Galfetti, Tàpies. Das graphische Werk / L’œuvre gravé 1973–1978, Erker-Verlag, St. Gallen, 1984, catalogue no. 346, p.25.

About the artist
Antoni Tàpies was a central figure in modern European art, known for developing a powerful personal language based on gesture, texture, matter, signs and symbolic abstraction. His work helped define post-war Spanish and Catalan modernism and placed him among the major international artists associated with Art Informel.

Tàpies exhibited widely in major museums and galleries across Europe, the United States, Japan and South America, and his works are held in major public collections including Tate, MoMA New York, Centre Pompidou, Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam, Museo Reina Sofía, and the Guggenheim Museum Bilbao.

Diana is a strong 1973 lithograph showing Tàpies’s mature graphic style: dense black gestural marks, deep red forms, raw surface energy and a target-like composition. It was published by the renowned Swiss print publisher Erker-Presse, St. Gallen, an important workshop associated with leading post-war European artists.

This example is from the scarce Roman numeral edition XIX/XX, printed on Zerkall paper, it is a desirable collector’s example of one of Tàpies’s bold graphic works from the 1970s.