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Antoni Tàpies (1923-2012)
Lot 282 Property from an Important Swiss Collection

Antoni Tàpies (1923-2012)

Engolado

Closed12 February 2015

Price Realised

GBP 146,500

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Antoni Tàpies (1923-2012)
Engolado
signed 'Tàpies.' (on the reverse)
mixed media on wood
31 7/8 x 51 1/8in. (81 x 130cm.)
Executed in 1980

Galeria Maeght, Barcelona.
Galeria Theo, Barcelona.
Private Collection (acquired from the above in 1989).
Acquired from the above by the present owner in 2010.

Specialist note

'A picture is nothing, it is a door that leads to another door... The truth we seek will never be found in a picture: it will only appear behind the last door that the viewer succeeds in opening by his own efforts'
(A. Tàpies, quoted in, Tàpies, exh. cat., Guggenheim Museum, New York, 1996, p. 36).