Antoni TAPIES
1923, Spain
Also known as: AT
Signature proven counterfeit
Mixed media on brown paper. In the mid 1980s, counterfeiting of Joan Miró and Antoni Tàpies appear on the market. Some were accompanied by certificates of authenticity by different people, who claimed to be experts in Miro and Tapies. Eventually it was understood that this was counterfeiting. A 40-year-old man was arrested for fraud. More and more counterfeit paintings signed Miró and Tàpies appeared. The buyers said that the paintings came from 40-year-old man. Tàpies made use sometimes of his palms and soles, as elements in his paintings. Five of the paintings were done with this technology and could be traced to the man. He acknowledged that he painted some 50 fakes. Of these 34 pieces found in connection with the investigation. Even today, it pops up fakes, likely made by the same person. Some of the counterfeit Mirómålningarna was sold at Christie's in New York for over 100,000 SEK each. All of the paintings was forged signed copies carried out in order to mimic the Tàpies and Miró painting. The 40-year-old man was sentenced to imprisonment for one year and three months for aggravated fraud by signature forgery.
Signature proven counterfeit
Signature proven counterfeit
Signature proven counterfeit
Signature proven counterfeit
Mixed media. The painting was submitted for sale at a major auction house in Stockholm. At the auction house became one suspicious about the painting's authenticity and therefore called the police who took the painting seized for further investigation. Police contacted Fundacio Antoni Tapies in Barcelona, confirming that the painting is not performed by Antoni Tapies. Court decision: The painting is not genuine. It is a forgery.
Signature proven counterfeit
An art dealer in southern Sweden was deceived into buying a counterfeit painting by Antonio Tapies for 450,000 SEK of three people from Stockholm. Art dealer shows his acquisition of a Spanish expert advising that the painting can not be painted by Tapies. He contacts the police who take painting seized for further investigation. One of the three men who sold the painting admits that he painted the painting but denies that he would have signed it. The two other blaming each other. The district court judge eventually two of the men to prison.
Signature proven counterfeit
Mixed media. In the mid 1980s, counterfeiting of Joan Miró and Antoni Tàpies appear on the market. Some were accompanied by certificates of authenticity by different people, who claimed to be experts in Miro and Tapies. Eventually it was understood that this was counterfeiting. A 40-year-old man was arrested for fraud. More and more counterfeit paintings signed Miró and Tàpies appeared. The buyers said that the paintings came from 40-year-old man. Tàpies made use sometimes of his palms and soles, as elements in his paintings. Five of the paintings were done with this technology and could be traced to the man. He acknowledged that he painted some 50 fakes. Of these 34 pieces found in connection with the investigation. Even today, it pops up fakes, likely made by the same person. Some of the counterfeit Mirómålningarna was sold at Christie's in New York for over 100,000 SEK each. All of the paintings was forged signed copies carried out in order to mimic the Tàpies and Miró painting. The 40-year-old man was sentenced to imprisonment for one year and three months for aggravated fraud by signature forgery.
Signature proven counterfeit
Mixed media. In the mid 1980s, counterfeiting of Joan Miró and Antoni Tàpies appear on the market. Some were accompanied by certificates of authenticity by different people, who claimed to be experts in Miro and Tapies. Eventually it was understood that this was counterfeiting. A 40-year-old man was arrested for fraud. More and more counterfeit paintings signed Miró and Tàpies appeared. The buyers said that the paintings came from 40-year-old man. Tàpies made use sometimes of his palms and soles, as elements in his paintings. Five of the paintings were done with this technology and could be traced to the man. He acknowledged that he painted some 50 fakes. Of these 34 pieces found in connection with the investigation. Even today, it pops up fakes, likely made by the same person. Some of the counterfeit Mirómålningarna was sold at Christie's in New York for over 100,000 SEK each. All of the paintings was forged signed copies carried out in order to mimic the Tàpies and Miró painting. The 40-year-old man was sentenced to imprisonment for one year and three months for aggravated fraud by signature forgery.
Signature proven counterfeit
Mixed media. In the mid 1980s, counterfeiting of Joan Miró and Antoni Tàpies appear on the market. Some were accompanied by certificates of authenticity by different people, who claimed to be experts in Miro and Tapies. Eventually it was understood that this was counterfeiting. A 40-year-old man was arrested for fraud. More and more counterfeit paintings signed Miró and Tàpies appeared. The buyers said that the paintings came from 40-year-old man. Tàpies made use sometimes of his palms and soles, as elements in his paintings. Five of the paintings were done with this technology and could be traced to the man. He acknowledged that he painted some 50 fakes. Of these 34 pieces found in connection with the investigation. Even today, it pops up fakes, likely made by the same person. Some of the counterfeit Mirómålningarna was sold at Christie's in New York for over 100,000 SEK each. All of the paintings was forged signed copies carried out in order to mimic the Tàpies and Miró painting. The 40-year-old man was sentenced to imprisonment for one year and three months for aggravated fraud by signature forgery.
Signature proven counterfeit
Mixed media. In the mid 1980s, counterfeiting of Joan Miró and Antoni Tàpies appear on the market. Some were accompanied by certificates of authenticity by different people, who claimed to be experts in Miro and Tapies. Eventually it was understood that this was counterfeiting. A 40-year-old man was arrested for fraud. More and more counterfeit paintings signed Miró and Tàpies appeared. The buyers said that the paintings came from 40-year-old man. Tàpies made use sometimes of his palms and soles, as elements in his paintings. Five of the paintings were done with this technology and could be traced to the man. He acknowledged that he painted some 50 fakes. Of these 34 pieces found in connection with the investigation. Even today, it pops up fakes, likely made by the same person. Some of the counterfeit Mirómålningarna was sold at Christie's in New York for over 100,000 SEK each. All of the paintings was forged signed copies carried out in order to mimic the Tàpies and Miró painting. The 40-year-old man was sentenced to imprisonment for one year and three months for aggravated fraud by signature forgery.
Signature proven counterfeit
Mixed media. In the mid 1980s, counterfeiting of Joan Miró and Antoni Tàpies appear on the market. Some were accompanied by certificates of authenticity by different people, who claimed to be experts in Miro and Tapies. Eventually it was understood that this was counterfeiting. A 40-year-old man was arrested for fraud. More and more counterfeit paintings signed Miró and Tàpies appeared. The buyers said that the paintings came from 40-year-old man. Tàpies made use sometimes of his palms and soles, as elements in his paintings. Five of the paintings were done with this technology and could be traced to the man. He acknowledged that he painted some 50 fakes. Of these 34 pieces found in connection with the investigation. Even today, it pops up fakes, likely made by the same person. Some of the counterfeit Mirómålningarna was sold at Christie's in New York for over 100,000 SEK each. All of the paintings was forged signed copies carried out in order to mimic the Tàpies and Miró painting. The 40-year-old man was sentenced to imprisonment for one year and three months for aggravated fraud by signature forgery.
Signature proven counterfeit
Mixed media. In the mid 1980s, counterfeiting of Joan Miró and Antoni Tàpies appear on the market. Some were accompanied by certificates of authenticity by different people, who claimed to be experts in Miro and Tapies. Eventually it was understood that this was counterfeiting. A 40-year-old man was arrested for fraud. More and more counterfeit paintings signed Miró and Tàpies appeared. The buyers said that the paintings came from 40-year-old man. Tàpies made use sometimes of his palms and soles, as elements in his paintings. Five of the paintings were done with this technology and could be traced to the man. He acknowledged that he painted some 50 fakes. Of these 34 pieces found in connection with the investigation. Even today, it pops up fakes, likely made by the same person. Some of the counterfeit Mirómålningarna was sold at Christie's in New York for over 100,000 SEK each. All of the paintings was forged signed copies carried out in order to mimic the Tàpies and Miró painting. The 40-year-old man was sentenced to imprisonment for one year and three months for aggravated fraud by signature forgery.
Signature considered genuine
Signature considered genuine
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Antoni Tàpies was born December 13, 1923, in Barcelona. His adolescence was disrupted by the Spanish Civil War and a serious illness that lasted two years. Tàpies began to study law in Barcelona in 1944 but decided instead within two years to devote himself exclusively to art. He was essentially self-taught as a painter; the few art classes he attended left little impression on him. Shortly after deciding to become an artist, he began attending clandestine meetings of the Blaus, an iconoclastic group of Catalan artists and writers who produced the review Dau al Set.
Tàpies’s early work was influenced by the art of Max Ernst, Paul Klee, and Joan Miró, and by Eastern philosophy. His art was exhibited for the first time in the controversial Salo d’Octubre in Barcelona in 1948. He soon began to develop a recognizable personal style related to matière painting, or Art Informel, a movement that focused on the materials of art-making. The approach resulted in textural richness, but its more important aim was the exploration of the transformative qualities of matter. Tàpies freely adopted bits of detritus, earth, and stone—mediums that evoke solidity and mass—in his large-scale works.
In 1950, his first solo show was held at the Galeries Laietanes, Barcelona, and he was included in the Carnegie International in Pittsburgh. That same year, the French government awarded Tàpies a scholarship that enabled him to spend a year in Paris. His first solo show in New York was presented in 1953 at the gallery of Martha Jackson, who arranged for his work to be shown the following year in various parts of the United States. During the 1950s and 1960s, Tàpies exhibited in major museums and galleries throughout the United States, Europe, Japan, and South America. In 1966, he began his collection of writings, La practica de l’art. In 1969, he and the poet Joan Brossa published their book, Frègoli; a second collaborative effort, Nocturn Matinal, appeared the following year. Tàpies received the Rubens Prize of Siegen, Germany, in 1972.
Retrospective exhibitions were presented at the Musée National d’Art Moderne, Paris, in 1973 and at the Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, New York, in 1977. The following year, he published his prize-winning autobiography, Memòria personal. In the early 1980s, he continued diversifying his mediums, producing his first ceramic sculptures and designing sets for Jacques Dupin’s play L’Eboulement. By 1992, three volumes of the catalogue raisonné of Tàpies’s work had been published. The following year, he and Cristina Iglesias represented Spain at the Venice Biennale, where his installation was awarded the Leone d’Oro. A retrospective exhibition was presented at the Galerie Nationale du Jeu de Paume, Paris, and the Guggenheim Museum SoHo, New York, in 1994–95. Tàpies lives in Barcelona.
Antoni Tàpies arbetade från början med en surrealistisk betonad konst, men övergick sedan till målningar med uppmurade färgmassor som ristades med tecken, kors, siffror, bokstäver. Ofta på udda material med mörka färger med enstaka färgaccenter. Hans målningar innehöll ofta dolda politiska budskap riktade mot Franco-regimen.
The Complete Book With Lithographs And Collages, 1963, The Collophone Signed By Tàpies And Brossa, 25 Lithographs And Collages (1963)
La Paille (1969)
Semanas Catalanas En Berlin (1978)
Composition (1962)
Forma Blanca (1988)
La Clau Del Foc Bok Med 16 Färglitografier (komplett)
Berlin-suite: Planche 5 Du Portfolio (galfetti 480) (1974)
Foc
Untitled (1961)
Aiguafort Amb Collage (1989)
Oval (1979)
Matière
Un Vase De Terre Crue Et Le T Du Nom De Tàpies (plate 3) (1988)
Aparicions 1 (1982)
Feu Ii (1981)
Deux Pieds Sur Ocre (1972)
Cercle De Corde (1969)
A.t. (1985)
La Porte (1969)
Untitled, Folder Of Seven Prints (pl. 4) (1960)
Minor Vii (1988)
Aparicions V (1982)
Negre I Roig: Quatre Ditates (1976)
Mâts (1972)
Vermell Damunt Diari
Vermell Damunt Diari (Executed 1972)
Composition
Folds
A4 (1985)
Feu Ii (1981)
U No és Ningú (1979)
Matière (1972)
Roba Interior (1972)
Le Pied (1969)
La Grille (1969)
Relief Gris Avec Trois Trous - 1964 (1964)
Blanc Amb Signe Vermellós (white With Reddish Sign) (1963)
Oval Gris-marró (grey-brown Oval) (1959)
Petit 's' Rouge
Composition
Black Litho, (lit: Galfetti 23) (1959)
Untitled, (lit: Galfetti 349) (1973)
Llambrec Material: Three Prints, (lit: Galfetti 543, 545, 547) (1975)
Lettre X, (lit: Galfetti 315) (1972)
Trois Taches Et Trois Lignes Noires (1972)
Cercle Sur Matière, (lit: Galfetti 231) (1970)
Forma Blanca (1988)
8 (1987)
Folder Of Seven P. (1960)
El Pa A La Barca, A Suite Of 25 Lithographs (1963)
