Tàpies: a retrospective of the Spanish modernist with an original mixed media artwork

Cirici, Alexandre. Tàpies: Témoin du silence. Barcelona: Ediciones Polígrafa, January 1972. 4to.; 372pp; some sunning to text; illustrated brown endpapers; illustrated cream buckram with black lettering on spine. In original illustrated dustjacket, black lettering on spine; rubbed at top and tail of spine; tear at top right of front cover; heavy edgewear at top. In original glassine jacket stamped in black; top half torn off back cover but still attached. First edition.  Antoni Tàpies (1923–2012), a luminary in Spanish art, is renowned for his innovative mixed-media paintings, exemplified by the seminal Grey and Green Painting (1957). His works, characterized by their intricate textures and tactile surfaces, integrate materials such as marble dust, found objects, and resin. The social themes pervading his oeuvre reflect the political and environmental milieu of wartime and postwar Spain. Tàpies once mused, “If one draws things in a manner which provides only the barest clue to their me