Antoni Tàpies (b. 1923)
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Antoni Tàpies (b. 1923)

Impasse 3-B

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Antoni Tàpies (b. 1923)
Impasse 3-B
signed 'Tàpies' (lower right); signed and dated 'Tàpies 1960' (on the reverse)
oil, rope, papertape and nail on wood panel mounted on canvas
20½ x 29½in. (52 x 75cm.)
Executed in 1960
Provenance
Sala Gaspar, Barcelona.
K. Johansson Burèn, Sweden.
Grosvenor Gallery, London.
Acquired from the above by the present owner in 2003.
Literature
B. Bonet, Tàpies, Barcelona 1962, p. 92 (illustrated).
J. Teixidor, Antoni Tàpies. Fustes, papers, cartons i collage, Barcelona 1964, p. 91 (illustrated).
A. Cirici, Tàpies, testimoni del silenci, Barcelona 1964, pl. 184 (illustrated, p. 120).
G. Gatt, Antoni Tàpies, Bologna 1967, pl. 112.
A. Tàpies, Mémoire, Paris 1981 (illustrated, p. 142).
A. Tàpies, Autobiografia, Venice 1982 (illustrated, unpaged).
A. Franzke and M. Schwarz, Antoni Tàpies. Werk und Zeit, Stuttgart 1982, pl. 9 (illustrated, p. 19).
L. Permanyer, Tàpies i la nova cultura, Barcelona 1986, pl. 156 (illustrated, p. 200).
B. Catoir, Gespräche mit Antoni Tàpies, Munich 1987, pl. 28 (illustrated, p. 30).
A. Augustí, Tàpies, The Complete Works: 1943-1960, vol. I, New York 1988, no. 926 (illustrated in colour, p. 483).
Exhibited
New York, The American Federation of Arts, Modern Spanish Painting: Seven Catalonian Artists, September 1964-September 1965.
Paris, Musée d'Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, Antoni Tàpies. Exposition rétrospective, 1946-1976, May-September 1973, no. 24. This exhibition later travelled to Geneva, Musée d'Art et d'Histoire Musée Rath, October-November 1973 and Charleroi, Palais des Beaux-Arts, December 1973-January 1974.
Stockholm, Prins Eugens Waldemarsudde, Antoni Tàpies, February-April 1994.
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