Tàpies, ‘the black prince’, lights up the Reina Sofía

2024-02-20 18:17:26

Manuel Borja-Villel returns to the museum of which he was director for fifteen years as curator of the great retrospective of the Catalan artist’s centenary, the largest to date

A woman passes by the painting ‘Neither doors nor windows’, by Tàpies, at the Reina Sofía Ignacio Gil

20/02/2024

Updated at 7:17 p.m.

At the age of 18, a serious lung disease kept him bedridden. During a long convalescence he spent hours copying Van Gogh, Picasso… he had color reproductions of some of his paintings and dedicated himself to learning how to handle the brush. …

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