Engolado

Details

Antoni Tàpies (1923-2012)
Engolado
signed 'Tàpies.' (on the reverse)
mixed media on wood
31 7/8 x 51 1/8in. (81 x 130cm.)
Executed in 1980

Provenance

Galeria Maeght, Barcelona.
Galeria Theo, Barcelona.
Private Collection (acquired from the above in 1989).
Acquired from the above by the present owner in 2010.

Literature

M. Fernàndez-Braso, Conversaciones con Tàpies, Madrid 1981 (illustrated in colour, pp. 100-101).
C. Benincasa, M. Calvesi and V. Sgarbi, Tàpies. Opere dal 1946 al 1982, Venice 1982, no. 71 (illustrated in colour, p. 69).
A. Augustí, Tàpies, Obra Completa, 1976-1981, Barcelona 1995, no. 3727 (illustrated in colour, p. 285).

Exhibited

Barcelona, Galeria Maeght, Tàpies. Obra recent, 1981, no. 30 (illustrated in colour).
Madrid, Galeria Theo, Tàpies. Obras 1956-1985, 1986, no. 15 (illustrated in colour).
Barcelona, Galeria Theo, Tàpies. Matèries i grans formats 1962-1979, 1987.

Special notice

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Lot Essay

'A picture is nothing, it is a door that leads to another door... The truth we seek will never be found in a picture: it will only appear behind the last door that the viewer succeeds in opening by his own efforts'
(A. Tàpies, quoted in, Tàpies, exh. cat., Guggenheim Museum, New York, 1996, p. 36).

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