Terrós (Muddy)

Details

Antoni Tàpies (1923-2012)
Terrós (Muddy)
signed 'tàpies' (on the reverse)
mixed media on wood
78¾ x 68 ⁷⁄₈in. (200 x 175cm.)
Executed in 1999

Provenance

Acquired directly from the artist by the present owner in 2004.

Literature

A. Agustí, Tàpies: Obra Completa 1998 - 2004, vol. 8é, Barcelona 2005, no. 7297 (illustrated in colour, p. 143).

Exhibited

Bilbao, Guggenheim Museum Bilbao, Homenaje a Chillida, 2006 (illustrated in colour, p. 255).

Special Notice

Artist's Resale Right ("Droit de Suite"). Artist's Resale Right Regulations 2006 apply to this lot, the buyer agrees to pay us an amount equal to the resale royalty provided for in those Regulations, and we undertake to the buyer to pay such amount to the artist's collection agent.

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Lot Essay

'Like a researcher in his laboratory,' Tàpies observed, 'I am the first spectator of the suggestions drawn from the materials. I unleash their expressive possibilities, even if I do not have a very clear idea of what I am going to do. As I go along with my work I formulate my thought, and from this struggle between what I want and the reality of the material - from this tension - is born an equilibrium.'
(A. Tàpies, quoted in 'I am a Catalan', 1971, reproduced in K. Stiles and P. Selz, Theories and Documents of Contemporary Art, Berkeley 1996, p. 55)

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