Red Stroke

Antoni Tàpies

Undated

  • Titles Red Stroke (Proper)
  • Artist Antoni Tàpies, Spanish, 1923 - 2012
  • Medium lithograph
  • Dimensions sheet: 26 1/4 × 20 in. (66.7 × 50.8 cm) image: 11 1/4 × 1 1/8 in. (28.6 × 2.9 cm) mat: 30 × 24 in. (76.2 × 61 cm)
  • Credit Line Gift of Burt and Jane Berman, 2000.124
  • Work Type print
  • Classification Prints

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