Antoni Tàpies
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"Forma le sombrero tachada con equis"
Executed in 1966.Oil and pencil on paper 50x 65 cm..
Provenance
Galerie Burén, Stockholm.
Uppsala Auktionskammare, International Quality Auction 14-17 June, 2011, cat. no. 559.
Swedish private collection.
Exhibitions
Galerie Burén, Stockholm, "Antonio Tàpies", 24 October, 1964, cat. no. 19.
Traveling exhibition, "Antonio Tàpies", Lund Art Hall, 1993 and Prince Eugen's Waldemarsudde, Stockholm, 1994.
Literature
Exhibition catalogue, Galerie Burén, Stockholm, 24 October 1964. Antonio Tàpies, illustrated as cat. no. 19.
Ralph Herrmanns, "Tàpies", Prince Eugen's Waldemarsudde, catalogue no. 26:94, 1993, illustrated in colour p. 21 and in b/w p. 105.
Anna Agustí, "Tàpies: The Complete Works: Vol. 2", 1961-1968, Barcelona 1990, no. 1597.
More information
During the Franco era, intellectuals in Spain met in secret groups. One such meeting place was the shop of the hatmaker Joan Prat in Barcelona. The shop also contained a sought-after library with avantgarde literature, prohibited at the time. Antoni Tapies was a member of this group and as an homage to Joan Prat, the crossed-out hat is a recurring symbolic motif in many of his works.