Untitled

Details

Matta (Chilean 1911-2002)
Untitled
oil on paper mounted on masonite
13 x 16½ x ¾ in. (33 x 42 x 2 cm.)
Painted in 1941.

Provenance

Claude Bernard Gallery, New York.
Feigen Palmer Gallery, Los Angeles.
Private collection, Los Angeles.

Literature

Portland, Portland Museum of Art, European Muses, American Masters 1870-1950, 2004, p. 130 (illustrated).

Lot Essay

Please note that this work is registered in the archives of Matta, prepared by Madame Germana Ferrari Matta, under archive no. 41/18.

During 1941, Matta created paintings with contradictory spatial systems, combining the two dimensional grid with the illusion of deep space. This exploration culminated in Matta's related 1941 masterpiece, Years of Fear in the Permanent Collection of the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York.

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