Antoni TAPIES - M.ojos y cruz, 1999 - Signed lithograph

Antoni Tàpies : Born in Barcelona in 1923, Antoni Tàpies is a spanish painter, sculptor, essayist and art theorist. He was marked by the civil war. Since 1945 in a neodadaïst spirit alternating abstraction and primitivism, he worked different materials. Two years later he participated to the creation of the magazine « Dau al Set » and interested himself to surrealist painting. At this time he became friend with Joan Brossa then Joan Miró. Since 1950, he explored an original and varied materiality : latex, emulsions, tars in large layers, oils, marbles and pigments in powder, resins, etchings with suger and carborundum. In the thickness of the substance signs are inscribed which are essential vehicles of his approach : triangles, circles, crosses, letters and numbers, parts of the body. Antoni Tàpies realized many exhibitions through the world (Geneva, Paris, New York, London, Barcelona, Tokyo, Rio de Janeiro, Venice...). He died in Barcelona in 2012.

Beyeler Foundation (Switzerland)
Guggenheim Museum Bilbao (Spain)
Hara Museum of Contemporary Art (Japan)
Museum of modern and contemporary art of Trento and Rovereto (Italy)
Fundació Antoni Tàpies (Spain)
François Pinault Foundation (Italy)
Museo Patio Herreriano (Spain)
MacVal (France)
Société Générale Collection (France)
Museo de Arte Contemporáneo (MACBA) Barcelona (Spain)
The Folkwang Museum (Germany)
FRAC Poitou-Charente (France)
FRAC Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur (France)
The Jumex Collection, México (México)
Tamayo Museum (Mexico)
Fundación Francisco Godia (Spain)
Schaulager - Emmanuel Hoffmann Foundation (Switzerland)
Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum (The USA)
Fundação Museu de Serralves (Portugal)
Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian (Portugal)
Fundació Pilar i Joan Miró in Maiorca (Spain)
Cantini Museum (France)
Museum of Modern Art Ceret (France)
Peyrassol Sculpture Park (France)
Neuer Berliner Kunstverein (Germany)
Deutsche Bank Art Collection (Germany)
Museum Abteiberg (Germany)
The José Manuel Rodrigues Berardo Collection (Portugal)
The Gilbert Brownstone Foundation (France)
The Slaughterhouses - FRAC Midi Pyrenees (France)
Fukuoka Art Museum (Japan)
Marguerite and Aimé Maeght Foundation (France)
Queensland art Gallery (Australia)
Museum of Modern Art (MOMA) (The USA)
Nykytaiteen museo Kiasma (Finland)
Tehran Museum of Contemporary Art (Iran)
FRAC Picardie (France)
FRAC Languedoc-Roussillon (France)
Scharf-Gerstenberg Collection (Germany)
FRAC Lower Normandy (France)
Municipal Contemporary Art Fund of Paris (France)
The Louisiana Museum of Modern Art (Denmark)
Sorigué Foundation (Spain)
Essl Museum (Austria)
Museum für Gegenwartskunst Siegen + The Lambrecht-Schadeberg Collection (Germany)
Lehmbruck Museum (Germany)
Städelmuseum (Germany)
Art Library, Pessac (France)
Limousin Art Library + FACLIM (France)
Artium (Spain)
MAMbo (Galleria d'Arte Moderna di Bologna) (Italy)
Fuji Art Museum (Japan)
National Galleries of Scotland (United Kingdom)
Kunstmuseum Lichtenstein (Liechtenstein)
The National Museum of Art, Osaka (Japan)
Art Library, Grenoble (France)
Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia (MNCARS) (Spain)
Centre Pompidou - National Museum of Modern Art (France)
Horsens Kunstmuseum (Denmark)
MMK Museum für Moderne Kunst Frankfurt am Main (Germany)
MNBA - Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes - Argentina (Argentina)
Brest Art Library (France)
Henie Onstad Museum (Norway)
Juan March Foundation (Spain)
Meadows Art Museum (The USA)
National Gallery of modern art (New Delhi) (India)
nufnuf-art foundation (Switzerland)
Collection Los Bragales de Arte Contemporáneo (Spain)
Sara Hildén Art Museum (Finland)
Art Library, Angers (France)
Fundación Rac (Rosón Arte Contemporáneo) (Spain)
National Museum of Visual Arts (Uruguay)
National Galleria of Modern Art (Roma) (Italy)
Staatliche Kunsthalle Karlsruhe (Germany)
National Center for Plastic Arts (France)
Museum of Fine Arts of Lyon (France)
The Panza Collection (Switzerland)
Saint Priest Art Library (France)
Vila Casas Foundation (Spain)
Museo de Bellas Artes de Bilbao (Spain)
Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum of Art, New York (The USA)
Wichita Art Museum (The USA)
Camille von Scholz collection (France)
Tate Collection (United Kingdom)
Harn Museum of Art (USA)
Staatsgalerie Stuttgart (Germany)
Die Neue Galerie - Universalmuseum Joanneum (Austria)
Es Baluard Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art in Palma (Spain)
olorVisual (Spain)
Landesmuseum Schloss Gottorf (Germany)
Art Library, Poitiers (France)
Frac Reunion (France)
The Ulster Museum (United Kingdom)
Kunstmuseum Winterthur (Switzerland)
Ohara Museum of Art (Japan)
Museo José Luis Cuevas (México)
Cà Pesaro Galleria Internazionale d'Arte Moderna (Italy)
Art Library, Millau (France)
Haggerty Museum at Marquette University (The USA)
Mezzanine (Liechtenstein)
Gandur Foundation for Art (Switzerland)
Joliette Art Museum (Canada)
Hannes von Gösseln Sammlung (Germany)
Kunsthalle zu Kiel (Germany)
Bündner Kunstmuseum (Switzerland)
Museo d'Arte Contemporanea di Lissone (Italy)
Botero Museum (Colombia)
Art Library, Nantes (France)
Hugo Voeten collection (Belgium)
Gelonch Viladegut Collection
Center for Engraving and Printed Images (Belgium)