Sale: 503 / Post War / Contemporary Art II, July 17. 2020 in Munich Lot 64

 

64
Antoni Tàpies
Paper with two marks, 1968.
Acrylic on paper, and chalks on paper, laid on ...
Estimate:
€ 20,000 / $ 21,600
Sold:
€ 20,000 / $ 21,600

(incl. surcharge)
Paper with two marks. 1968.
Acrylic on paper, and chalks on paper, laid on canvas.
Agusti 1829. Signed in lower right. 41 x 32.5 cm (16.1 x 12.7 in). [CH].

• Fascinating material qualiity
• Works from the 1960s count among the artist‘s most sought-after creations on the international auction market
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PROVENANCE: Galerie Maeght, Paris (stretcher with fragments of the gallery label).
Private collection Southern Germany.

"Painting has always known abstraction, from the Altamira caves over Velázquez to Picasso. I always told the fanatics of Realism that there was no reality in painting; it only exists in the mind of the observer. [.] Accordingly, I don't see any contradiction between abstraction and figuration, as long as they evoke this idea of reality within us. The 'reality' that our eyes show us is just a miserable shadow of reality." (Tàpies, quote after: Kritisches Lexikon der Gegenwartskunst, edition 5, p. 2)




64
Antoni Tàpies
Paper with two marks, 1968.
Acrylic on paper, and chalks on paper, laid on ...
Estimate:
€ 20,000 / $ 21,600
Sold:
€ 20,000 / $ 21,600

(incl. surcharge)