Antoni Tàpies - Lithograph (Special Edition) | Signed Post-War Print

This rare lithograph (1976/1978) by Antoni Tàpies from 1978 exemplifies the artist’s distinctive material-based visual language and his profound engagement with texture, gesture, and symbolism. The image is built from layered, rough textures and scratched linear forms that recall walls, inscriptions, or eroded surfaces. Tàpies frequently used such marks to evoke themes of memory, time, and the human trace,  key themes in Tàpies’ post-war work..

The work belongs to a special edition of only 40 copies (Roman numbered , in an exceptionally large format, and issued outside the regular edition.

Sheet size: 61 × 87 cm.

The lithograph is signed in pencil by Antoni Tàpies in the lower right and numbered in pencil in the lower left. The work was printed by Erker-Presse, St. Gallen, and bears their embossed blind stamp in the lower left margin.

Catalogue raisonné reference: Galfetti, nos. 647–657.

Erker-Presse was highly influential in its time and has left a lasting mark on post-war printmaking and art history, particularly in the field of artist editions and fine art lithography.

Antoni Tàpies (Barcelona, 1923–2012) was one of the most influential European artists of the post-war period and a leading figure of Art Informel and material-based abstraction. His work is characterized by an intense focus on surface, matter, and signs, often incorporating sand, earth-like pigments, scratches, and symbolic markings. Tàpies viewed the artwork as a space for reflection on existence, spirituality, memory, and time. His art bridges painting, philosophy, and politics, combining raw physical presence with profound intellectual depth. His work is represented in major international museum collections worldwide.

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