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Artist Antoni Tàpies (Spanish, 1923 - 2012)

Publisher Maeght Éditeur, Paris, 1971 (Adrien Maeght)

Printer text: L'Imprimerie Union, Paris; etchings: Adrien Maeght

Author André du Bouchet (French, born 1924)

Date1971

DimensionsBox: H: 11 3/4 in. (298 mm); W: 9 3/8 in. (238 mm); Depth: 1 in. (26 mm).
Cover: H: 11 1/2 in. (292 mm); W: 9 in. (229 mm); Depth: 7/8 in. (22 mm).
Book: H: 11 1/4 in. (286 mm); W: 8 7/8 in. (225 mm); Depth: 13/16 in. (21 mm).
Page (untrimmmed): H: 10 7/8 in. (277 mm); W: 8 11/16 in. (220 mm).

MediumOriginal prints: 9 soft ground etchings (incl. outer wrappers) with lift ground aquatint, aquatint, and/or collagraph (2 in black and 7 in color), plus 7 lithographs (incl. inner wrappers), incl. 1 in black and 6 in color. Text: letterpress (type: garamond, pt. 14). Paper: Richard de bas Auvergne cream laid paper, watermarked.

ClassificationBooks

Credit LineGift of Molly and Walter Bareiss

Object number

1984.959

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Published Referencescf. Johnson, Robert Flynn, Artists' Books in the Modern Era 1870--2000: The Reva and David Logan Collection of Illustrated Books, San Francisco, 2001, no. 154.Exhibition HistoryToledo Museum of Art, Splendid Pages: The Molly and Walter Bareiss Collection of Modern Illustrated Books, Feb. 14--May 11, 2003.Label TextIllustrated with 13 intaglios and lithographs printed in black and in color, plus 1 intaglio and lithograph on outside cover, and1 intaglio on inside cover