ANTONI TÀPIES (Barcelona, 1923 - 2012). Untitled. From the suite "El rei de la mà gia". 1986.

ANTONI TÀPIES (Barcelona, 1923 - 2012).
Untitled. From the suite "El rei de la mà gia". 1986.
Etching, P.A. copy.
Edition of 50 copies.
Signed and justified in pencil.
Measurements: 46,7 x 69 cm.(print); 65 x 85 cm.(frame).
El Rei de la MÃ gia" was a collaborative work between Joan Brossa (author of the poems) and TÃ pies, who made the engravings.
Tà pies was initiated into art during his long convalescence from a lung disease. He gradually devoted himself more and more intensely to drawing and painting, and finally gave up his law studies to devote himself entirely to art. Co-founder of "Dau al Set" in 1948, he began to exhibit at the Salones de Octubre in Barcelona, as well as at the Salón de los Once held in Madrid in 1949. After his first solo exhibition at the Galerà as Layetanas, he travelled to Paris in 1950, with a grant from the Institut Français. As a result of his solo exhibition in 1953 at Martha Jackson's New York gallery, his international projection was strengthened. He was awarded prizes such as the Prince of Asturias, the Praemium Imperiale of the Japan Art Association, the National Culture Prize, the French Grand Prix for Painting, etc., and anthologies have been dedicated to him in Tokyo, New York, Rome, Amsterdam, Madrid, Venice, Milan, Vienna and Brussels. He is represented in major museums all over the world, such as the foundation that bears his name in Barcelona, the Reina Sofà a in Madrid, the Guggenheim in Berlin, Bilbao and New York, the Fukoka Art Museum in Japan, the MoMA in New York and the Tate Gallery in London.