TÀPIES, ANTONI. Llull-Tàpies. 24 plates including 7 double-page, employing various methods including aquatint, collage, embossing, etc., on wove paper, the first and last plate signed by Tàpies, 363x501 mm; 14 1/4x19 3/4 inches, sheets. Oblong folio, loose as issued in the original black card chemise with an embossed design, laid in the original brown coarse linen clamshell case, the front cover and spine printed in black (minor wear); light soiling to some text leaves. Paris and Barcelona: Daniel Lelong and Carles Taché 1985
first edition of this masterly livre d'artiste. number 75 of 105 copies signed by tàpies from a total edition of 165. A brilliant marriage of Tàpies's modern abstractions with Lull's 14th-century visionary mysticism. Tàpies was an artist who had a natural affinity for books and was a prodigious book collector. He "tranferred his passion for fine old books into creating his own . . . aware of the many forms books have taken, Tàpies has worked against the norm, making his books closely resontate to the forms of painting"--Castleman page 75.
