Lithograph by Antoni Ta`pies 1969. In good original condition. Antoni Ta’pies born in Barcelona in 1923, Ta’pies started his artistic run during a long convalescence due to a serious sickness. The increasing interest in drawing and painting pushed him to leave academic studies. On the 1940s he already exposed works with a strong personality, outstanding in the contemporary artistic panorama. In 1948, he co-founded the magazine Dau al Sel. Influenced by Miro and Klee, he intensified the iconographics elements and the magical field. Slowly, he started to absorbe geometrizing elements and color studies that lead him to an interest for the materic, resulting intense weaving canvas with wide possibilities of expression and communications. With those works, in the middle of 1950s, Ta’pies reached international recognition. Since 1960s, he added new iconographic elements (marks of writing, anthropomorphic elements, footsteps and signs reporting to Catalunyas situation), technical procedures (new surfaces, use of everyday objects and varnish). The artistic language of Tapies has develop since then and the result is a diversified and great plastic production admired around the world.