The most perfect and monumental Tàpies returned home with a great retreat

2024-07-19 02:07:08

The Tàpies Museum hosts the ‘Character of Art’, a mid-century exhibition of the artist who arrived in Barcelona with new features compared to what we see in Brussels and Madrid

A visitor ponders the ‘Catalan Spirit’ at the Tàpies Foundation EFE

19/07/2024

Updated at 4:13 p.m

The image, he explained Antoni Tapies a Manuel Borja-Villel almost three decades ago, he had never painted. Even when, recovering from lung disease, he spent hours copying Picasso’s prints and making his first self-portraits. Already then, between shots…

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