Details
ANTONI TÀPIES (1923-2012)
Atencion Cataluña
signed 'tapies' (lower right)
acrylic and collage on newspaper
19 ½ x 26 1⁄8 in. (49.5 x 66.4 cm.)
Executed in 1969.
Provenance
with Martha Jackson Gallery, New York.
with David Anderson Gallery, Buffalo, by 1992, where acquired by a previous owner.
Their sale; Sotheby's, London, 16 February 2011, lot 142, where acquired for the present collection.
Literature
P. Gimferrer, Tàpies i L'esperit Català, Barcelona, 1974, p. 46, no. 68, illustrated.
J. Vallès Rovira, Tàpies Empremta, Barcelona, 1983, no. 165, illustrated.
A. Agustí, Tàpies: The Complete Works: Volume 3: 1969-1975, Barcelona, 1992, p. 62, no. 2014, illustrated.
Exhibited
Buffalo, Albright-Knox Gallery, Antoni Tàpies: Thirty-three Years of His Work, January - March 1977, p. 84, no. 100, illustrated: this exhibition travelled to Chicago, Museum of Contemporary Art; San Antonio, March - May 1977, Marion Koogler McNay Art Institute, May - July 1977; Des Moines, Art Center, August - October 1977; Montreal, Musée d'Art Contemporain, October - November 1977.

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We are very grateful to Toni Tàpies for their assistance in cataloguing this lot.

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