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Antoni Tàpies · 1958
Antoni Tàpies: 1923–2012
Other names (7)
Antonio Tapies, Antonio Tapies Puig, Antoni Tapies, Antoni Tapies i Puig, Antoni Tàpies Puig, O Tapies, Tapies
Biography
Antoni Tàpies i Puig, 1st Marquess of Tàpies (Catalan: [ənˈtɔni ˈtapi.əs]; 13 December 1923 – 6 February 2012) was a Catalan painter, sculptor, and art theorist.
The son of Josep Tàpies i Mestre and Maria Puig i Guerra, Antoni Tàpies Puig was born in Barcelona on 13 December 1923. His father was a lawyer and Catalan nationalist who served briefly with the Republican government. Due to this, Tàpies grew up in an environment where he was exposed to a variety of cultural and social experiences of leaders in the Catalan public life and its republicanism. His maternal grandmother also exposed him to this world with her great involvement in civil and political activities.
Tàpies was first introduced to modern art as he entered secondary school in 1934. In the same year, he became inspired by the famous Christmas issue of the magazine D’ací i d’allà, which contained reproductions of works by artists such as Marcel Duchamp, Georges Braque, Wassily Kandinsky, and Pablo Picasso. At 17, Tàpies suffered a near-fatal heart attack caused by tuberculosis.
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- Deborah Browneditorial inference
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The biography identifies Tàpies as an influence on Brown's abstract painting. Explicit secondary-source assertion; independent historical verification remains pending.
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- Museum of Modern Art3 recorded works
- musée Cantini — Marseille2 recorded works
- Tate2 recorded works
- Musée d'art moderne de Paris1 recorded work
- The Metropolitan Museum of Art1 recorded work
