Live Auction 10420First Open / LDN
Antoni Tàpies (B. 1923-2012)
Lot 76

Antoni Tàpies (B. 1923-2012)

Trois Taches Rouges (Three Red Marks)

Closed26 March 2015

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GBP 12,500

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Antoni Tàpies (B. 1923-2012)
Trois Taches Rouges (Three Red Marks)
signed ‘Tàpies’ (lower right), titled and dated '"Trois taches rouges" 1987' (on the reverse)
charcoal, graphite and wax pencil on paper
12 ¾ x 17 ½in. (32.5 x 44.5cm.)
Executed in 1987

Private Collection.
Anon. sale, Sotheby's London, 12 December 2007, lot 103.
Acquired from the above by the present owner.

Specialist note

‘The mystical consciousness - almost undefinable - seems fundamental for an artist. It is like a “suffering” of reality, a state of constant hyper-sensitivity to everything that surrounds us, good and bad, light and darkness. It is like a voyage to the center of the universe which furnishes the perspective necessary for placing all things of life in their real dimension’
(A. Tàpies, quoted in, ‘I am a Catalan’, in K. Stiles and P. Selz, Theories and Documents of Contemporary Art: A Sourcebook of Artists’ Writings, Los Angeles 1996, p. 56).