Suite Montseny No. 8

Artist Antoni Tàpies (Spanish, born 1923)

Date1993

Mediumetching with chine collé

DimensionsPlate Mark: 4 7/8 x 7 1/8 in. (12.4 x 18.1 cm)
Support: 12 7/16 x 17 5/8 in. (31.6 x 44.8 cm)
Mat: 13 13/16 x 19 1/8 in. (35.1 x 48.6 cm)

ClassificationsGraphic

Credit LineGift of Marjorie Devon, 2011

Object number2011.18.1

DescriptionRed markings and red cross concentrated in lower left corner, as well as diagonally from upper left corner to bottom center and in upper right corner in gestural marks. Background is sandy yellow with white in lower left and beige fabric chine colle rectangle in upper right.
eMuseum Notes

Emuseum Notes

This etching is from a suite of etchings titled after Barcelona’s highest mountain, an homage to the artist’s birthplace. Tapies is one of the best-known postwar Spanish artists. Printmaking is an important and active part of Tapies artistic practice. This etching reflects the artist’s use of a self-styled vocabulary of marks, including the cross which often appears in his paintings and prints. Other calligraphic markings are his own glyphs, which can be considered a sort of surrealist automatic writing, a movement that held great interest to Tapies when he was first becoming active as an artist in the 1940s. He became active in printmaking in the 1950s.

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