Roberto Matta (1911-2002)

Lot 54
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Lot 54 | Roberto Matta (1911-2002)
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$ 300 000 – 500 000
Roberto Matta (1911-2002)

L'unité absolue

signed and titled 'Matta L'unité absolue' (on the stretcher bar)

oil on canvas

28 x 36 in. (71.1 x 91.4 cm.)

Painted in 1942.







Provenance

Pierre Matisse Gallery, New York.

Robert Elkon Gallery, New York.

Private collection, Paris.

Estate of Catherine Schlumberger Jones sale; Sotheby’s New York, 19 November 1990, lot 38a.

Anon sale; Sotheby’s New York, 14 May 1996, lot 16.

Galeria de Arte Nader, Santo Domingo.

Acquired from the above by the present owner (circa 1996).





Literature

G. Ferrari, Matta: Entretiens morphologiques: Notebook No. 1 1936-1944, London, 1987, p. 242.





Post Lot Text

1 Roberto Matta, quoted in Roberto Matta: Paintings and Drawings, 1937-1959 (Los Angeles: Latin American Masters, 1997), n.p.
2 Robert Motherwell, quoted in Sidney Simon, “Concerning the Beginnings of the New York School: 1939-1943,” Art International XI, no. 6 (Summer 1967): 21.
3 Matta, quoted in Nancy Miller, “Interview with Matta,” in Matta: The First Decade (Waltham, Mass.: Rose Art Museum, 1982), 12.
4 Rosamund Frost, “Matta, Furious Scientist,” ARTNews XLI, no. 5 (April 15-30, 1942): 27.
5 William Rubin, “Matta,” The Bulletin of the Museum of Modern Art 25, no. 1 (1957): 3-4.
6 André Breton, “The pearl is marred, in my eyes…,” in Breton, Surrealism and Painting, trans. Simon Watson Taylor (Boston: MFA Publications, 2002), 184, 188.
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