Tapies: Complete Works Volume II: 1961-1968
Antoni Tàpies was born in Barcelona in 1923, and he continues to live and work there. A painter, draftsman, printmaker, and sculptor, he participated in the Venice Biennial in 1954 and 1958, and won an award for painting there in 1993; he also received the Guggenheim International Award in 1964, participated in Documenta3, and in 1981 was awarded the Medalla de Oro de Bellas Artes by King Juan Carlos I in Madrid. He has been the subject of numerous retrospectives at major museums worldwide, including the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York; The Museum of Modern Art, New York; the Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam; the Institute of Contemporary Art, London; and the Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris.