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Antoni Tàpies (1923-2012)
Doble Cartò Negre (Double Black Cardboard)
signed and dated 'Tàpies -1960' (on the reverse), numbered 'N° 9 C (on the stretcher)
oil on cardboard laid on canvas
116 x 89cm.
Executed in 1960
Provenance
Sala Gaspar, Barcelona.
J. Gimferrer Collection, Banyoles.
Private Collection, Spain.
Literature
J. Teixidor, Antoni Tàpies. Fustes, papers, cartons i 'collages', Barcelona 1964 (illustrated, p. 94).
A. Agustí, Tàpies: The Complete Works. Volume 1: 1943-1960, New York 1989, p. 475, no. 909 (illustrated, p. 475).
Exhibited
Hannover, Kestner-Gesellschaft, Antoni Tàpies, 1962, no. 64.
Zurich, Kunsthaus, Antoni Tàpies, 1962, no. 67.
New York, AFA Gallery, Modern Spanish Painting: Seven Catalonian Artists, 1965, no. 26. This exhibition later travelled to Portland, Portland Art Museum; San Diego, The Fine Arts Gallery and Greenville, Greenville Museum of Art.
Venice, Biennale di Venezia, 1976, p. 184.
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‘My illusion is to have something to transmit. If I can't change the world, at least I want to change the way people look at it’ – Antoni Tàpies

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