
Antoni Tàpies
Gestural Abstract Composition, 1969

Antoni Tapies
Title: Gestural Abstract Composition
Medium: Color Lithograph
Year: 1969
Edition: Limited
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Over the course of his career in painting, printmaking, and etching, Antoni Tàpies has created his own lexicon of symbols and marks to help communicate the broad range of influences in his work including, most significantly, his Catalan roots, as well as his involvement with the Parisian intellectual scene of the 1950s, meeting exponents of Art informel like Jean Fautrier and Jean Dubuffet. Tàpies’s abstract paintings are made with expressive blends of impasto, gestural brush strokes, often backwards hand-written script, and common materials such as soil and marble dust.


Antoni Tapies
Title: Gestural Abstract Composition
Medium: Color Lithograph
Year: 1969
Edition: Limited
Publisher: Maeght, Paris
Size: 44.9 × 14.8 inches
Antoni Tàpies i Puig, 1st Marquess of Tàpies (Catalan; 13 December 1923 – 6 February 2012) was a Spanish painter, sculptor and art theorist, who became one of the most …

Over the course of his career in painting, printmaking, and etching, Antoni Tàpies has created his own lexicon of symbols and marks to help communicate the broad range of influences in his work including, most significantly, his Catalan roots, as well as his involvement with the Parisian intellectual scene of the 1950s, meeting exponents of Art informel like Jean Fautrier and Jean Dubuffet. Tàpies’s abstract paintings are made with expressive blends of impasto, gestural brush strokes, often backwards hand-written script, and common materials such as soil and marble dust.