Matta (Chilean 1911-2002)
Untitled
signed 'Matta' (lower right)
oil on canvas
27½ x 24 7/8 in. (69.9 x 63.2 cm.)
Painted in 1970.
Provenance
Francis Delila collection, Paris.
Greer Gallery, New York.
Thomas Monahan Fine Art, Chicago.
James Winter collection, Delafield, Wisconsin.
Thomas Monahan Fine Art, Chicago.
Acquired from the above by the present owner.
Literature
Exhibition catalogue, Matta: Surrealism and Beyond, Milwaukee, Haggerty Museum of Art, Marquette University, 1997, p. 56, no. 24 (illustrated in color).
Exhibition catalogue, Matta: tras las huellas de un gigante, Buenos Aires, Centro Cultural Borges: Galería de Arte Isabel Aninat, 1998, p. 64, no. 34 (illustrated in color).
Exhibited
Milwaukee, Haggerty Museum of Art, Marquette University, Matta: Surrealism and Beyond, 19 September- 3 November 1997, no. 24.This exhibition also travelled to Monterrey, Museo de Arte Contemporáneao de Monterrey, 1998.
Buenos Aires, Centro Cultural Borges, Matta: tras las huellas de un gigante, October 1998, no. 34.
Lot Essay
This work is sold with a certificate of authenticity signed by Germana Matta Ferrari and dated 1 September 1991 and is registered in the Matta archives under no. 70/143.