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Matta

La démonstration

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October 9, 03:11 PM GMT

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Description

Matta

1911 - 2002


La démonstration

signed Matta and titled (on the reverse)

oil on canvas

32 by 39 ¼ in.

81.3 by 99.7 cm.

Executed in 1957.


This work is accompanied by a certificate of authenticity issued by Archives de L'oeuvre de Matta signed by Germana Ferrari Matta. This work is included in the Archives de l’oeuvre de Matta. 

Galerie du Dragon, Paris

Collection Farsetti, Prato

Acquired from the above by the present owner

Milwaukee, Marquette University, The Haggerty Museum, Matta: Surrealism and Beyond, 1997, p. 49, illustrated in color

Boston, McMullen Museum of Art, Matta: Making the Invisible Visible, 2004, p. 117, illustrated in color

Santiago de Chile, Centro Cultural Palacio La Moneda, Matta: Centenario 11.11.11., 2011-12, pp. 95 and 209, illustrated in color

St. Petersburg, State Hermitage Museum, Matta & the Fourth Dimension, 2019

Thomas Monahan, Roberto Matta: On the Edge of a Dream, Milan, 2016, p. 77, illustrated in color

Dmitry Ozerkov, Matta & the Fourth Dimension, Milan, 2020, n.p., illustrated in color