Antoni Tàpies and his art – in pictures

Antoni Tàpies presents his paintings at the Venice Biennale, 1958 Photograph: Archivio Cameraphoto Epoche/Hulton Archive/Getty Images

A Martha Jackson, Heureux 1969! Photograph: Albright-Knox Art Gallery/Corbis

Tàpies with one of his works in 1981 Photograph: Sophie Bassouls/Sygma/Corbis

Painters André Masson (left) and Antoni Tàpies (right) attend the Musée Picasso after its inauguration by French president François Mitterrand Photograph: Pierre Vauthey/Sygma/Corbis

The Tribute to Picasso, 1981-3, by Antoni Tàpies in the Paseo Picasso in Barcelona, Spain. Commissioned by Barcelona city council in 1981, the Tribute is an assemblage of modernista furniture evocative of the period in which Picasso lived in Barcelona, pierced by iron bars and tied together with ropes and sheets, on some of which are written statements by Picasso. It is protected from the elements by a 4m-square glass cube standing in an 11m-square pool. Water emerges from the top of the cube and runs down the sides Photograph: Manuel Cohen/Getty Images

Núvol i Cadira (Cloud and Chair) wire sculpture on top of Fundació Antoni Tàpies, which houses the artist's work in a spectacular modernista building in Barcelona's Eixample district Photograph: Kevin Foy/Rex Features

Tàpies won the Velázquez prize, Spain's most important art award, in 2003 Photograph: Alfaqui/Rex Features

Tàpies poses next to one of his artworks during the inauguration of his exhibition at the Reina Sofia Center for the Arts in Madrid in 2004 Photograph: Pedro Armestre/AFP/Getty Images

Tàpies signs a book after being awarded the French Legion of Honour in 2006 Photograph: Dominique Faget/AFP/Getty Images

Tàpies in front of his painting Franja Negra (2006) at an art gallery in Madrid in 2006 Photograph: Sergio Perez/Reuters

Visitors look at Libre-mur at the Antoni Tàpies Foundation Photograph: Albert Gea/Reuters

Visitors look at Llinda at the Antoni Tàpies Foundation Photograph: Albert Gea/Reuters