LOT DETAILS

Materials:

mixed media on canvas

Measurements:

102.36 in. (260.00 cm.) (height) by 76.77 in. (195.00 cm.) (width)

Markings:

signed and dated 'tàpies - 1961' (on the reverse)

Exhibited:

Paris, Musée de la Ville de Paris, XVIIIe Salon de Mai, 1962, p. 24, no. 152 (illustrated, p. 12).Turin, Galleria Notizie, Tàpies, 1963 (illustrated, p. 12).Vienna, Museum de 20. Jahrhunderts, Antoni Tàpies, 1968 (illustrated, p. 41).

Literature:

B. Bonet, Tàpies, Barcelona 1964, p. 176 (detail illustrated, p. 134).M. Tapié, Antoni Tàpies, Milan 1969, no. 138 (illustrated, unpaged).G. Raillard, Tàpies, Paris 1976, no. 47 (illustrated, p. 56).A. Tàpies, Mémoire. Autobiographie, Paris 1981 (illustrated, p. 419).C. Benincasa, Antoni Tàpies: Autobiografia, Venice 1982 (illustrated, p. 132).V. and M. Langen, Sammlung Viktor u. Marianne Langen, Kunst des 20ten Jahrhunderts, vol. II, Ascona 1986, p. 371 (illustrated in colour, p. 372).A. Agustí, Tàpies: The Complete Works, Volume II: 1961-1968, Barcelona 1990, p. 485, no. 976 (illustrated, p. 53).

Provenance:

Michel Tapié, Paris (Centro Internazionale di Ricerca Estetica, Turin).Renzo Cortina, Milan.Private Collection, Switzerland.Galerie Denise René Hans Mayer, Dusseldorf.Viktor and Marianne Langen, Meerbusch (acquired from the above in 1979).And thence by descent to the present owners.