Antoni Tàpies, 1923 - 2012

Antoni Tàpies, Metal Shutter and Violin, 1956

Antoni Tàpies died on 6 February, 2012. The Spanish artist's abstractions are notable for the use of readymade objects, sombre, rich colours, and textured materials - marble dust and sand mixed with pigment and varnish. He was, arguably, one of the greatest of European abstractionists. 

Read an obituary by Christopher Masters.

Antoni Tàpies, Matter in the Form of a Foot, 1965

Antoni Tàpies, Great Painting, 1958

Antoni Tàpies, Grey and Green Painting, 1957

Antoni Tàpies, Grey Ochre, 1958

Antoni Tàpies, Creu I R, 1975

Mondrian // Nicholson in Parallel - The Courtauld Gallery

Ben Nicholson, 1937 (painting), 1937

Mondrian // Nicholson in Parallel at The Courtauld Gallery examines the brief moment when London became an international centre of Modernism, in 1938. In that year Piet Mondrian, at the invitation of Ben Nicholson left war threatened Paris for London. Mondrian and Nicholson together formed a nucleus of avant-gardism in Hampstead (also present were Barbara Hepworth, Naum Gabo, Berthold Lubetkin, Ernő Goldfinger, Ernst Gombrich and Sigmund Freud). 

At the outbreak of war, in 1939, Nicholson and Hepworth left London for St Ives; they invited Mondrian to join them, but the countryside hating Mondrian declined and subsequently made his way to New York.

Read a fascinating account of this moment by Frances Spalding as well as in The Courtauld Gallery press release.

The exhibition continues until 20 May.

Piet Mondrian, Composition No.III White-Yellow, 1935-42

Piet Mondrian, Composition with Double Line and Yellow, 1932

Ben Nicholson, 1936 (white relief), 1936

Ben Nicholson, 1940-43 (two forms), 1940-43