Antoni Tapies (1923-2012)
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Antoni Tapies (1923-2012)

Pintura damunt cartó fregat (Painting on Scrubbed Cardboard)

Details
Antoni Tapies (1923-2012)
Pintura damunt cartó fregat (Painting on Scrubbed Cardboard)
signed 'tapies' (on the reverse)
oil on cardboard
20 7/8 x 29 ½in. (53 x 75cm.)
Executed in 1961
Provenance
Sala Gaspar, Barcelona.
Galerie Beyeler, Basel.
Acquired from the above by the present owner in 1971.
Literature
J. Teixidor, Antoni Tàpies. Fustes, papers, cartons i collages, exh. cat, Barcelona, Sala Gaspar, 1964 (illustrated, p. 160).
A. Agustí, Tàpies: The Complete Works Volume 2: 1961-1968, Barcelona 1990, pp. 486 and 507, no. 1026 (illustrated, p. 74).
Exhibited
Madrid, Galería Biosca, Exposición Tàpies, 1966 (illustrated, unpaged).
Vienna, Museum des 20. Jahrhunderts, Antoni Tàpies, 1968, no. 39.
Basel, Galerie Beyeler, Artistes espagnoles, 1969, no. 57.
Special notice
Artist's Resale Right ("Droit de Suite"). Artist's Resale Right Regulations 2006 apply to this lot, the buyer agrees to pay us an amount equal to the resale royalty provided for in those Regulations, and we undertake to the buyer to pay such amount to the artist's collection agent. These lots have been imported from outside the EU for sale using a Temporary Import regime. Import VAT is payable (at 5%) on the Hammer price. VAT is also payable (at 20%) on the buyer’s Premium on a VAT inclusive basis. When a buyer of such a lot has registered an EU address but wishes to export the lot or complete the import into another EU country, he must advise Christie's immediately after the auction.

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