Antoni Tapies

Antoni Tapies was born in Barcelona in 1923 and he continues to live and work there. He participated in the 1954 and 1958 Venice Biennials and won an award for painting there in 1993; he also received the Guggenheim International Award in 1964, participated in Documenta 3 and in 1981, he was awarded the Medalla de Oro de Bellas Artes by King Juan Carlos I in Madrid. He has been the subject of numerous retrospectives at major museums worldwide, including the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum and The...See more

Antoni Tapies was born in Barcelona in 1923 and he continues to live and work there. He participated in the 1954 and 1958 Venice Biennials and won an award for painting there in 1993; he also received the Guggenheim International Award in 1964, participated in Documenta 3 and in 1981, he was awarded the Medalla de Oro de Bellas Artes by King Juan Carlos I in Madrid. He has been the subject of numerous retrospectives at major museums worldwide, including the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum and The Museum of Modern Art in New York, among many others. See less