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| Image | Sale date | Auction house | Location | Sale name | Lot No. | Estimate | Price Sold | Condition | Title |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Feb 28, 2019 | Christie's | London | The Art Of The Surreal Evening Sale | 114 | $****** - ****** | Los ojos del follaje (The Eyes of Foliage) |
paintings
90.2 x 117.2 cm (35.5 x 46.13 in)
oil on canvas
signed, dated and inscribed 'Tàpies - / "ELS ULLS DEL FUJATGE" – 1949' (on the reverse)
Collection Güell, by 1967.
Dau al Set Galeria d'Art, by 1985.
Galeria Artema, Barcelona.
Acquired from the above by the present owner by 1990.
Madrid, Academia Breve de Crítica de Arte, Séptimo Salón de los Once, 1949.
Barcelona, Instituto Francés, Un aspecto de la joven pintura. Cuixart, Ponç, Tapiès, December 1949 - January 1950, no. 24.
Barcelona, Dau al Set Galeria d'Art, A l'entorn de Dau al Set, April 1985.
Valladolid, Sala Municipal de Exposiciones del Museo de Pasión, El Mundo de Dau al Set, December 2008 – January 2009, n.n.(illustrated with incorrect orientation p. 66; with incorrect dimensions); this exhibition later travelled to Barcelona, Fran Daurel Foundation, Dau al Set, April 2009; and Zaragoza, October - December 2009, n.n. (illustrated p. 43; with incorrect dimensions).
E. d’Ors, ‘La despedida de soltero del vanguardismo español’, in Mundo Hispánico, Madrid, no. 25, April 1950, p. 33.
G. Gatt, Antoni Tàpies, Bologna, 1967, no. 20 (illustrated; with incorrect dimensions).
M. Tapié, Antoni Tàpies, Milan, 1969, p. 23 (illustrated pl. 27; with incorrect dimensions).
A. Cirici, Tàpies: Witness of Silence, Barcelona, 1972, no. 58, p. 358 (illustrated p. 103; with incorrect dimensions).
J. Vallès Rovira, Tàpies Empremta (art-vida), Barcelona, 1982, p. 93 (illustrated; with incorrect dimensions).
A. Agustí, Tàpies: The Complete Works, vol. I, 1943-1960, Barcelona 1990, no. 202, pp. 104, 526 (illustrated; with incorrect dimensions).
A. Franzke, Tàpies, Munich, 1992, pp. 48-49, 357 (illustrated pl. 24, p. 52; with incorrect dimensions).
J. A. López Manzanares, Madrid antes de “El Paso”: La renovación artística en la postguerra madrileña (doctoral thesis, Universidad Complutense de Madrid), 2006, no. 74, pp. 186-187, 194, 214 & 217 (illustrated p. 428; with incorrect dimensions).
signed, dated and inscribed 'Tàpies - / "ELS ULLS DEL FUJATGE" – 1949' (on the reverse)
oil on canvas
35 1/2 x 46 1/8 in. (90 x 117 cm.)
Painted in 1949.
