Antoni Tapies

1923–2012, Spain

Antoni Tàpies (1923–2012) was a Spanish artist who made paintings, prints, sculptures and works on paper. His work was influenced by the early modernists Paul Klee and Joan Miró and by Art Informel artists such as Jean Dubuffet. Tàpies developed a visual language of thick gestural marks, signs and symbols, and his use of materials ranging from rubbish and earth to dust and stone gave his works a sense of solidity and physicality. In the late 1950s the owners of the Sala Gaspar gallery in Barcelona invited him to publish his first lithographs. He took part in the Venice Biennale four times. His works are in the collections of the Centre Pompidou, Moderna Museet, Kunstmuseum Basel, Fondation Beyeler, MoMA and Tate.

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