Antoni Tàpies i Puig, I Marqués de Tápies (Barcelona, December 13, 1923 - ibid, February 6, 2012), was a Spanish painter, sculptor and art theorist.
Tàpies was the son of the lawyer Josep Tàpies i Mestres and Maria Puig i Guerra, daughter of a family of Catalan politicians.
According to his own confession, his artistic vocation awoke with a Christmas number of the magazine D'Ací i d'Allà in 1934, which presented an extensive panorama of international modern art.
He combined his law studies at the University of Barcelona, which he had started in 1943, with his passion for art.
In 1948 he was one of the founders of the magazine and the movement known as Dau al Set, related to Surrealism and Dadaism.
The first works of Tàpies were framed within surrealism, but from that distance he changed his style, becoming one of the main exponents of informalism.
selected works
1970
Painting on cardboard (38x65)