Roberto Matta Art
Chilean, 1911-2002
“The function of art,” the Surrealist Roberto Matta once stated, “is to unveil the enormous economic, cultural and emotional forces that materially interact in our lives and that constitute the real space in which we live.” In his paintings, Matta sought to expose those forces through the Surrealist practice of automatism, creating work in a free-associative state intended to conjure the unconscious.
After studying architecture in his native Chile, Matta, then 22, chose to pursue the field in Paris, where he mingled with stars of the avant-garde like Gertrude Stein, Salvador Dalí and Walter Gropius. In the late 1930s, he abandoned Paris, together with his job at Le Corbusier’s studio and (for a time) his career, for modern art’s new epicenter, New York City. There, he became a colleague of art legends like Marcel Duchamp and Arshile Gorky.
Although celebrated primarily for his work as a painter, Matta was an equally talented furniture designer. His furniture pieces, like his artworks, are the stuff of dreams. The back of his totem chair, for example, is composed of smiling, cartoonish creatures stacked on top of each other. In his MAgriTTA armchair, the top half of a plush green apple sticks out of large black bowler in homage to its namesake, the Belgian Surrealist René Magritte.
But perhaps the piece that most truly embodies his artistic philosophy is his 1966 Mallite modular system: a collection of spongy, undulating sofas and lounges that can be fitted together to form a puzzle-like room divider. The work, an original edition of which is in MoMA’s permanent collection, has in recent decades been a hard-to-find collectors’ item — until 2019, when Italian design brand Paradisoterrestre issued a reedition, available through Duplex.
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Artist: Roberto Matta
UNTITLED (ORIGINAL DRAWING)
By Roberto Matta
Located in Aventura, FL
Original color drawing on paper. Hand signed lower front by Roberto Matta. Image size 12 x 16 inches. Frame size approx 23.25 x 27.5 inches.
Artwork is in overall excellent co...
Category
Mid-20th Century Contemporary Roberto Matta Art
Materials
Paper, Color Pencil
Original poster of Roberto Matta - May 68 : Disciples occupy the discipline
By Roberto Matta
Located in PARIS, FR
Original poster of Roberto Matta created in May 68, with the slogan: Disciples occupy the discipline. For a revolutionary discipline.
Born on November 11, ...
Category
1960s Roberto Matta Art
Materials
Linen, Paper, Lithograph
Les Transeport Signed Limited Edition Aquatint Etching
By Roberto Matta
Located in Rochester Hills, MI
ROBERTO MATTA (1911-2002)
1977
17.5 x 22.5 in
Les Transeport,
Editions Sonet, Stockholm
printed at Atelier Georges Visat, Paris
Etchings with aquatint in colors, Signed in pencil a...
Category
1970s Surrealist Roberto Matta Art
Materials
Etching, Aquatint
Centre Noeuds
By Roberto Matta
Located in Paris, FR
Etching, 1974
Handsigned by the artist in pencil and annotated ea 14/15
Publisher : Georges Visat (Paris)
60.50 cm. x 45.00 cm. 23.82 in. x 17.72 in. (paper)
35.50 cm. x 26.50 cm. ...
Category
1970s Abstract Roberto Matta Art
Materials
Etching
L'epreuve
By Roberto Matta
Located in Palm Desert, CA
A painting by Roberto Matta. "L'epreuve" is a surrealist painting, oil on canvas in palette of grays, greens, and yellows by Latin American artist Roberto Matta. It is signed in the ...
Category
Mid-20th Century Surrealist Roberto Matta Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil
1978 Original exhibition poster tracing 55 drawings of Matta since 1937
By Roberto Matta
Located in PARIS, FR
Beautiful poster of exhibition tracing the 55 drawings of Matta since 1937.
Born on November 11, 1911 in Santiago, Chile, he graduated in architecture from the Catholic University o...
Category
1970s Roberto Matta Art
Materials
Paper, Lithograph
De trace de pas de trace de…
By Roberto Matta
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Signed in pencil lower right
Color etching with aquatint
From: Monsour and Matta, Les Damnations, 1966 (11 plates, this one of 7 hors text images)
Edition: 85 portfolios in the re...
Category
1960s Surrealist Roberto Matta Art
Materials
Etching, Aquatint
Ça A by Roberto Matta
By Roberto Matta
Located in New York, NY
Artist: Roberto Matta
Medium: Lithograph, E.A. Signed, Edition of 100, 1976
Dimensions: 22 x 30 in, 55.9 x 76.2 cm
Category
1970s Roberto Matta Art
Materials
Lithograph
Centre Noeuds
By Roberto Matta
Located in Paris, FR
Etching, 1974
Handsigned by the artist in pencil and annotated ea 14/15
Publisher : Georges Visat (Paris)
60.50 cm. x 45.00 cm. 23.82 in. x 17.72 in. (paper)
35.50 cm. x 26.50 cm. ...
Category
1970s Abstract Roberto Matta Art
Materials
Etching
Centre Noeuds
By Roberto Matta
Located in Paris, FR
Etching, 1974
Handsigned by the artist in pencil and annotated ea 14/15
Publisher : Georges Visat (Paris)
60.00 cm. x 45.00 cm. 23.62 in. x 17.72 in. (paper)
35.50 cm. x 26.50 cm. ...
Category
1970s Abstract Roberto Matta Art
Materials
Etching
Hours of the Day Series, 8am
By Roberto Matta
Located in Miami, FL
TECHNICAL INFORMATION
Roberto Matta
Hours of the Day Series, 8am
1975
Etching with aquatint
25 x 36 in.
Edition of 9
Pencil signed and numbered
Condition: This work is in excellent condition. It has never been framed and always stored flat for its protection
Frame: Unframed
The first true flowering of Matta's own art came in 1938, when he moved from drawing to the oil painting for which he is best known. This period coincided with his emigration to the United States, where he lived until 1948. His early paintings, give an indication of the work he would continue, with diffuse light patterns and bold lines on a featureless background.
As Matta’s work evolved, his key ambition to represent and evoke the human psyche in visual form was filtered through the writings of Freud and the psychoanalytic view of the mind as a three-dimensional space. These paintins "are visual analogies for the artist's psyche".
During the 1940's and 1950's, the disturbing state of world politics found reflection in Matta's work, with the canvases becoming busy with images of electrical machinery and distressed figures.
In his art Matta creates new dimensions in a blend of organic and cosmic lifeforms, known as biomorphism. He was one of the first Surrealists to take this abstract leap, successfully combining the political and the semi-abstract in epic surreal canvases.
Category
1970s Surrealist Roberto Matta Art
Materials
Aquatint, Etching
Passage et sage du couple
By Roberto Matta
Located in Paris, FR
Pastel, 1964
Handsigned by the artist in pencil and annotated Essai 1/1
Publisher : Georges Visat (Paris)
Catalog : Sabatier 110
34.00 cm. x 44.50 cm. 13.39 in. x 17.52 in. (paper)
...
Category
1960s Abstract Roberto Matta Art
Materials
Pastel
Comique Trippe XVI
By Roberto Matta
Located in Long Island City, NY
Comique Trippe XVI by Roberto Matta, Chilean (1911–2002)
Date: 1974
Lithograph, signed and numbered in pencil
Edition of 56/60
Image Size: 12.25 x 17.25 inches
Size: 16.25 x 20.5 in....
Category
1970s Surrealist Roberto Matta Art
Materials
Lithograph
Felicor, Terracotta Wall Sculpture by Roberto Matta
By Roberto Matta
Located in Long Island City, NY
Felicor by Roberto Matta, Chilean (1911–2002)
Terracotta Wall Plaque, signature inscribed, numbered in ink
Edition of 49/150
Size: 15 x 12.75 x 2.25 in. (38.1 x 32.39 x 5.72 cm)
Fram...
Category
1980s Surrealist Roberto Matta Art
Materials
Terracotta
La Source du Calme
By Roberto Matta
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Roberto Matta, Chilean (1911 - 2002)
Title: La Source du Calme
Year: 2002
Medium: Carborundum Etching on Hand-Made Paper, signed and numbered in mark...
Category
Early 2000s Surrealist Roberto Matta Art
Materials
Handmade Paper, Etching
No title
By Roberto Matta
Located in Paris, FR
Engraving
Handsigned by the artist in pencil and annotated HC
65.00 cm. x 50.00 cm. 25.59 in. x 19.69 in. (paper)
49.00 cm. x 37.00 cm. 19.29 in. x 14.57 in. (image)
LCD5016
Category
1970s Abstract Roberto Matta Art
Materials
Engraving
Comique Trippe VII, Surrealist Lithograph by Roberto Matta
By Roberto Matta
Located in Long Island City, NY
Comique Trippe VII by Roberto Matta, Chilean (1911–2002)
Date: 1974
Lithograph, signed and numbered in pencil
Edition of 56/60
Image Size: 12.25 x 17.25 inches
Size: 16.25 x 20.5 in....
Category
1970s Surrealist Roberto Matta Art
Materials
Lithograph
Cosmicstrip IV, Surrealist Aquatint Etching by Roberto Matta
By Roberto Matta
Located in Long Island City, NY
Cosmicstrip IV by Roberto Matta, Chilean (1911–2002)
Date: 1959
Etching, signed and numbered in pencil
Edition of 21/50
Image Size: 14.75 x 19.25 inches
Frame Size: 23.75 x 28 inches...
Category
1950s Surrealist Roberto Matta Art
Materials
Etching, Aquatint
Hours of the Day series, 8pm
By Roberto Matta
Located in Miami, FL
TECHNICAL INFORMATION
Roberto Matta
Hours of the Day Series, 8pm
1975
Etching with aquatint
25 x 36 in.
Edition of 9
Pencil signed and numbered
Condition: This work is in excellent condition. It has never been framed and always stored flat for its protection
Frame: Unframed
The first true flowering of Matta's own art came in 1938, when he moved from drawing to the oil painting for which he is best known. This period coincided with his emigration to the United States, where he lived until 1948. His early paintings, give an indication of the work he would continue, with diffuse light patterns and bold lines on a featureless background.
As Matta’s work evolved, his key ambition to represent and evoke the human psyche in visual form was filtered through the writings of Freud and the psychoanalytic view of the mind as a three-dimensional space. These paintins "are visual analogies for the artist's psyche".
During the 1940's and 1950's, the disturbing state of world politics found reflection in Matta's work, with the canvases becoming busy with images of electrical machinery and distressed figures.
In his art Matta creates new dimensions in a blend of organic and cosmic lifeforms, known as biomorphism. He was one of the first Surrealists to take this abstract leap, successfully combining the political and the semi-abstract in epic surreal canvases.
Category
1970s Surrealist Roberto Matta Art
Materials
Etching, Aquatint
La Dulce Aqua Vita
By Roberto Matta
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Roberto Matta, Chilean (1911 - 2002)
Title: La Dulce Aqua Vita
Year: 2002
Medium: Carborundum Etching on Hand-Made Paper, signed and numbered in marker
Edition: XXVI/XXXV
Pap...
Category
Early 2000s Surrealist Roberto Matta Art
Materials
Handmade Paper, Etching
Composition - Drawing by Roberto Matta - 1970s
By Roberto Matta
Located in Roma, IT
Composition is a wonderful Pastel drawing on paper realized in the early 1970s by the Surrealist artist Sebastián Matta (Santiago de Chile, 1911 - Civitavecchia, 2002).
Not signed,...
Category
1970s Surrealist Roberto Matta Art
Materials
Pencil
Espace de l'Espece, Surrealist Lithograph by Roberto Matta
By Roberto Matta
Located in Long Island City, NY
This lithograph was created by Chilean artist Roberto Matta. Matta creates new dimensions in a blend of organic and cosmic lifeforms in a biomorphic style. He was one of the first ar...
Category
1970s Surrealist Roberto Matta Art
Materials
Lithograph
Ancien Victorieux je te morphose from Hom'mere I (Chaosmos) by Roberto Matta
By Roberto Matta
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Roberto Matta, Chilean (1911 - 2002)
Title: Ancien Victorieux Je te morphose from Hom'mere (Chaosmos)
Year: 1974
Medium: Etching with Aquatint on Arches, Signed and Numbered ...
Category
1970s Surrealist Roberto Matta Art
Materials
Aquatint, Etching
MATTA - 10 EROTIC ETCHINGS - New School Portfolio
By Roberto Matta
Located in Santa Monica, CA
ROBERTO MATTA (Chilean 1911- 2002)
NEW SCHOOL PORTFOLIO (1943-5) (Sabatier 1-7, 4 prints not recorded by Sabatier)
Portfolio with complete set of 10 etch...
Category
1940s Surrealist Roberto Matta Art
Materials
Inkjet, Etching
Rare Vintage Exhibition Leaflet - R.S. Matta - Galerie di Dragon - 1958
By Roberto Matta
Located in Roma, IT
Exhibition Leaflet is an original rare vintage catalogue by the Chilean artist Roberto Sebastián Matta (1911-2002).
This color artwork is the rare exhibition leaflet realized in occ...
Category
1950s Surrealist Roberto Matta Art
Materials
Paper
Untitled 9 from Hom'mere V - N'ous, Surrealist Etching by Roberto Matta
By Roberto Matta
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Roberto Matta (Chilean, 1911 - 2002)
Title: Untitled 9
Portfolio: Hom'mere V - N'ous
Date: 1985
Medium: Etching and aquatint, signed and numbered in pencil
Edition: 29/100
Im...
Category
1980s Surrealist Roberto Matta Art
Materials
Etching, Aquatint
1975 Roberto Matta 'T'ou't se tient' Contemporary France Lithograph
By Roberto Matta
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Paper Size: 12.25 x 9.5 inches ( 31.115 x 24.13 cm )
Image Size: 12.25 x 9.5 inches ( 31.115 x 24.13 cm )
Framed: No
Condition: A-: Near Mint, very light signs of handling
Addi...
Category
1970s Roberto Matta Art
Materials
Lithograph
Untitled 6 from Hom'mere V - N'ous Portfolio, Aquatint Etching by Roberto Matta
By Roberto Matta
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Roberto Matta (Chilean, 1911 - 2002)
Title: Untitled 6
Portfolio: Hom'mere V - N'ous
Date: 1985
Medium: Etching and aquatint, signed and numbered in pencil
Edition: 29/100
Im...
Category
1980s Surrealist Roberto Matta Art
Materials
Etching, Aquatint
Untitled 3 from Hom'mere V - N'ous Portfolio, Aquatint Etching by Roberto Matta
By Roberto Matta
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Roberto Matta (Chilean, 1911 - 2002)
Title: Untitled 3
Portfolio: Hom'mere V - N'ous
Date: 1985
Medium: Etching and aquatint, signed and numbered in pencil
Edition: 29/100
Im...
Category
1980s Surrealist Roberto Matta Art
Materials
Etching, Aquatint
L'ergofrage (Naufrage du Titanic), Aquatint Etching by Roberto Matta
By Roberto Matta
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Roberto Matta
Title: L'ergofrage (Naufrage du Titanic) from Hom'mere III - L'Ergonaute
Date: 1976-77
Medium: Aquatint etching on Japon, signed and numbered in pencil
Edition...
Category
1970s Surrealist Roberto Matta Art
Materials
Etching, Aquatint
Archery – Etching by R.S. Matta- 1977
By Roberto Matta
Located in Roma, IT
Hand signed. Edition of 100 prints.
From the portfolio “Transesports” of 6 coloured etchings and aquatints on Japon Nacré paper.
Printed by Georges Visat, Paris and published by Éd...
Category
1970s Contemporary Roberto Matta Art
Materials
Etching
Untitled 5 from Hom'mere V - N'ous Portfolio, Etching by Roberto Matta
By Roberto Matta
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Roberto Matta (Chilean, 1911 - 2002)
Title: Untitled 5
Portfolio: Hom'mere V - N'ous
Date: 1985
Medium: Etching and aquatint, signed and numbered in pencil
Edition: 29/100
Im...
Category
1980s Surrealist Roberto Matta Art
Materials
Etching, Aquatint
Les naufrageants from Hom'mere II - L'Eautre, Aquatint Etching by Roberto Matta
By Roberto Matta
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Roberto Matta, Chilean (1911 - 2002)
Title: Les naufrageants from Hom'mere II - L'Eautre
Year: 1974-75
Medium: Aquatint Etching on Japon, Signed and numbered in pencil
Editio...
Category
1970s Surrealist Roberto Matta Art
Materials
Aquatint, Etching
8 AM from L'Arc Obscur des Heures, Aquatint Etching by Roberto Matta
By Roberto Matta
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Roberto Matta, Chilean (1911 - 2002)
Title: 8 AM from L'Arc Obscur des Heures
Year: 1975
Medium: Aquatint Etching on Arches, signed and numbered in pencil
Edition: 125, XXXII...
Category
1970s Surrealist Roberto Matta Art
Materials
Etching, Aquatint
10PM from L'Arc Obscur des Heures, Surrealist Aquatint Etching by Roberto Matta
By Roberto Matta
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Roberto Matta, Chilean (1911 - 2002)
Title: 10 PM from L'Arc Obscur des Heures
Year: 1975
Medium: Aquatint Etching, Signed and numbered in pencil
Edition: 125, XXXIII
Image S...
Category
1970s Surrealist Roberto Matta Art
Materials
Etching, Aquatint
Les Venusiennes (II) from Fog Gog Magog Planche 3, Lithograph by Roberto Matta
By Roberto Matta
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Roberto Matta, Chilean (1911 - 2002)
Title: Les Venusiennes (II) - Fog Ma Gog Planche 3
Year: 1971
Medium: Lithograph on Arches, signed and numbered in pencil
Edition: 47/100...
Category
1970s Surrealist Roberto Matta Art
Materials
Lithograph
4 AM from L'Arc Obscur des Heures, Abstract Aquatint Etching by Roberto Matta
By Roberto Matta
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Roberto Matta, Chilean (1911 - 2002)
Title: 4 AM from L'Arc Obscur des Heures
Year: 1975
Medium: Aquatint Etching, Signed and numbered in pencil
Edition: XXXI/XXXIII
Image Si...
Category
1970s Surrealist Roberto Matta Art
Materials
Aquatint, Etching
Or dur or aison
By Roberto Matta
Located in New York, NY
Signed, titled, and numbered
Category
20th Century Roberto Matta Art
Materials
Lithograph
10 AM from L'Arc Obscur des Heures
By Roberto Matta
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Roberto Matta, Chilean (1911 - 2002)
Title: 10 AM from L'Arc Obscur des Heures
Year: 1975
Medium: Aquatint Etching, Signed and numbered in pencil
Edition: 125
Image Size: 19....
Category
1970s Surrealist Roberto Matta Art
Materials
Aquatint, Etching
La Dulce Aqua Vita
By Roberto Matta
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Roberto Matta, Chilean (1911 - 2002)
Title: La Dulce Aqua Vita
Year: 2002
Medium: Carborundum Etching on Hand-Made Paper, signed and numbered in marker
Edition: 125, XXXV
Pap...
Category
Early 2000s Surrealist Roberto Matta Art
Materials
Etching, Handmade Paper
Epaisser de haut-mer from Hom'mere II - L'Eautre, Aquatint Etching by Matta
By Roberto Matta
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Roberto Matta, Chilean (1911 - 2002)
Title: Epaisser de haut-mer from Hom'mere II - L'Eautre
Year: 1974-75
Medium: Aquatint Etching on Japon, Signed and numbered in pencil
Ed...
Category
1970s Surrealist Roberto Matta Art
Materials
Aquatint, Etching
8PM from L'Arc Obscur des Heures, Aquatint Etching by Roberto Matta
By Roberto Matta
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Roberto Matta, Chilean (1911 - 2002)
Title: 8 PM from L'Arc Obscur des Heures
Year: 1975
Medium: Aquatint Etching, signed and numbered in pencil
Edition: 125, XXXIII
Image Si...
Category
1970s Surrealist Roberto Matta Art
Materials
Aquatint, Etching
Untitled - Early Surrealist Pencil Drawing by Roberto Matta - 1950s
By Roberto Matta
Located in Roma, IT
Surrealist Drawing is an exceptional pencil drawing by the artist Roberto Sebastián Antonio Matta Echaurren, who signed on the lower right of the paper “Matta”. The artwork is in ver...
Category
1950s Surrealist Roberto Matta Art
Materials
Pencil
Il Albero Giovanne
By Roberto Matta
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Roberto Matta, Chilean (1911 - 2002)
Title: Il Albero Giovanne
Year: 2002
Medium: Carborundum Etching on Hand-Made Paper, signed and numbered in marker
Edition: 125, XXXV
Pap...
Category
Early 2000s Surrealist Roberto Matta Art
Materials
Handmade Paper, Etching
2 AM from L'Arc Obscur des Heures, Surrealist Aquatint Etching by Roberto Matta
By Roberto Matta
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Roberto Matta, Chilean (1911 - 2002)
Title: 2 AM from L'Arc Obscur des Heures
Year: 1975
Medium: Aquatint Etching, Signed and numbered in pencil
Edition: XXXI/XXXIII
Image Si...
Category
1970s Surrealist Roberto Matta Art
Materials
Aquatint, Etching
Centre Noeuds, Suite of 10 Aquatint Etchings by Matta
By Roberto Matta
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Roberto Matta, Chilean (1911 - 2002)
Portfolio: Centre Neouds
Year: 1974
Medium: Suite of 10 Aquatint Etchings on Japon paper, each signed and numbered in pencil
Edition: 12...
Category
1970s Surrealist Roberto Matta Art
Materials
Aquatint, Etching
Ça Ira (It'll be fine) by Roberto Matta - Abstract Expressionist
By Roberto Matta
Located in New York, NY
This colorful color lithograph by Roberto Matta was printed at the Atelier Mourlot in Paris in 1976 and comes from an edition of 100 - from the series "Ca Ira" (it'll be fine) Ref. F...
Category
1970s Abstract Expressionist Roberto Matta Art
Materials
Lithograph
Porol-Vua, Surreal Lithograph by Roberto Matta
By Roberto Matta
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Roberto Matta, Chilean (1911 - 2002)
Title: Porol-Vua
Year: 1978
Medium: Lithograph, signed and numbered in pencil
Edition: 97/100
Image Size: 20 x 28.5 inches
Size: 22...
Category
1970s Surrealist Roberto Matta Art
Materials
Lithograph
COSI FAN TUTTE
By Roberto Matta
Located in New York, NY
color etching and aquatint. Edition 1/100
Fantastical
Surreal
Fantasy
Category
1970s Surrealist Roberto Matta Art
Materials
Etching, Aquatint
Foot Musik
By Roberto Matta
Located in Malmo, SE
Frame size 76x78 cm.
Free shipment worldwide.
Acquired directly from the artist.
Archive number (P90/41)
“The heart is an eye,” writes Nobel laureate Octavio Paz in an essay on Matta’s paintings. Matta creates a world coloured both by a sunny faith in the future and by visions of impending doom.
Roberto Sebastian Echaurren Antonio Matta, who died aged 91 on 23 November 2002, was born in Santiago, Chile, on 11 November 1911 into a family with Spanish, French and Basque roots, and raised in an atmosphere of religiosity. By the age of 21 he had graduated and begun work as an architect, but his leisure time he devoted to sketching and painting. In 1933 he travelled to Europe for the first time, visiting Greece, Yugoslavia, Italy and other countries, and subsequently taking the initiative to collaborate with the architect, Le Corbusier. As time passed, however, Matta’s enthusiasm for a career in architecture waned, and he began to devote himself full-time to art, making early acquaintances with surrealists such as Max Ernst, Salvador Dalí, André Breton and others.
Between 1939 and 1948 Matta, like many of his artistic contemporaries, lived in self-imposed exile in the USA, but, after almost 10 years’ absence from Europe, he returned to make first Rome and then, a few years later, Paris his home. Throughout most of the rest of his life Matta commuted between his studio in Paris and his creative refuge in the monastery outside Rome. And it is here, in Italy, that he produced his greatest paintings.
Matta’s first retrospective in Sweden was organised in 1956 when his works were exhibited in what was then Galerie Colibri – run by, among others, the artist C O Hultén...
Category
1990s Surrealist Roberto Matta Art
Materials
Gouache, Mixed Media
L'ame du Tarot de Theleme Portfolio of 5 Aquatint Etchings by Matta
By Roberto Matta
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Roberto Matta
Portfolio: L'ame du Tarot de Theleme
Year: 1994
Medium: Portfolio of Five Aquatint Etchings, each signed and numbered in pencil
Edition: 100, XX
Image Size: 19....
Category
1990s Surrealist Roberto Matta Art
Materials
Etching, Aquatint
5PM from L'Arc Obscur des Heures
By Roberto Matta
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Roberto Matta, Chilean (1911 - 2002)
Title: 5PM from L'Arc Obscur des Heures
Year: 1975
Medium: Aquatint Etching, Signed and numbered in pencil
Edition: 125, XXXIII
Image Siz...
Category
1970s Surrealist Roberto Matta Art
Materials
Aquatint, Etching
La Danse de la Mort, Suite of 8 Aquatint Etchings by Matta
By Roberto Matta
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Roberto Matta, Chilean (1911 - 2002)
Title: La Danse de la Mort - Planche 1-8
Year: 1972
Medium: Suite of 8 Aquatint Etchings, Each Signed and numbered in pencil
Edition: 41/...
Category
1970s Surrealist Roberto Matta Art
Materials
Aquatint, Etching
12 AM from L'Arc Obscur des Heures, Surrealist Aquatint Etching by Roberto Matta
By Roberto Matta
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Roberto Matta, Chilean (1911 - 2002)
Title: 12 AM from L'Arc Obscur des Heures
Year: 1975
Medium: Aquatint Etching, Signed and numbered in pencil
Edition: 51/125, XXXIII
...
Category
1970s Surrealist Roberto Matta Art
Materials
Aquatint, Etching
Foot Musik
By Roberto Matta
Located in Malmo, SE
Artwork size: 56 x 58 cm.
Frame size: 76 x 78 cm.
Free shipment worldwide.
Archive number (P90/36)
Acquired directly from the artist.
“The heart is an eye,” writes Nobel laureate Octavio Paz in an essay on Matta’s paintings. Matta creates a world coloured both by a sunny faith in the future and by visions of impending doom. Roberto Sebastian Echaurren Antonio Matta, who died aged 91 on 23 November 2002, was born in Santiago, Chile, on 11 November 1911 into a family with Spanish, French and Basque roots, and raised in an atmosphere of religiosity. By the age of 21 he had graduated and begun work as an architect, but his leisure time he devoted to sketching and painting. In 1933 he travelled to Europe for the first time, visiting Greece, Yugoslavia, Italy and other countries, and subsequently taking the initiative to collaborate with the architect, Le Corbusier. As time passed, however, Matta’s enthusiasm for a career in architecture waned, and he began to devote himself full-time to art, making early acquaintances with surrealists such as Max Ernst, Salvador Dalí, André Breton and others. Between 1939 and 1948 Matta, like many of his artistic contemporaries, lived in self-imposed exile in the USA, but, after almost 10 years’ absence from Europe, he returned to make first Rome and then, a few years later, Paris his home. Throughout most of the rest of his life Matta commuted between his studio in Paris and his creative refuge in the monastery outside Rome. And it is here, in Italy, that he produced his greatest paintings. Matta’s first retrospective in Sweden was organised in 1956 when his works were exhibited in what was then Galerie Colibri – run by, among others, the artist C O Hultén at number 36 Södra Förstadsgatan in Malmö, Sweden. This was also the time when Matta began to collaborate with poets and other artists in Sweden. He produced the illustrations for Lasse Söderberg’s first anthology of poems, Akrobaterna (“The Acrobats”), published in 1955, and was also responsible for the cover of the Swedish art and literary magazine Salamander. In 1959 the first museum exhibition of Matta’s work in Europe was arranged at the Museum of Modern Art (Moderna Museet) in Stockholm. Held under the aegis of Pontus Hultén, it was entitled “Fifteen Forms of Doubt” and included 15 or so gigantic paintings...
Category
1990s Surrealist Roberto Matta Art
Materials
Mixed Media
Foot Musik.
By Roberto Matta
Located in Malmo, SE
Pastel, gouache and coffee on paper.
Artwork size: 58 x 56 cm.
Frame size: 78 x 76 cm.
Free shipment worldwide.
Acquired directly from the artist.
Archive number (P90/37)
“The heart is an eye,” writes Nobel laureate Octavio Paz in an essay on Matta’s paintings. Matta creates a world coloured both by a sunny faith in the future and by visions of impending doom.
Roberto Sebastian Echaurren Antonio Matta, who died aged 91 on 23 November 2002, was born in Santiago, Chile, on 11 November 1911 into a family with Spanish, French and Basque roots, and raised in an atmosphere of religiosity. By the age of 21 he had graduated and begun work as an architect, but his leisure time he devoted to sketching and painting. In 1933 he travelled to Europe for the first time, visiting Greece, Yugoslavia, Italy and other countries, and subsequently taking the initiative to collaborate with the architect, Le Corbusier. As time passed, however, Matta’s enthusiasm for a career in architecture waned, and he began to devote himself full-time to art, making early acquaintances with surrealists such as Max Ernst, Salvador Dalí, André Breton and others.
Between 1939 and 1948 Matta, like many of his artistic contemporaries, lived in self-imposed exile in the USA, but, after almost 10 years’ absence from Europe, he returned to make first Rome and then, a few years later, Paris his home. Throughout most of the rest of his life Matta commuted between his studio in Paris and his creative refuge in the monastery outside Rome. And it is here, in Italy, that he produced his greatest paintings.
Matta’s first retrospective in Sweden was organised in 1956 when his works were exhibited in what was then Galerie Colibri – run by, among others, the artist C O Hultén at number 36 Södra Förstadsgatan in Malmö, Sweden. This was also the time when Matta began to collaborate with poets and other artists in Sweden. He produced the illustrations for Lasse Söderberg’s first anthology of poems, Akrobaterna (“The Acrobats”), published in 1955, and was also responsible for the cover of the Swedish art and literary magazine Salamander.
In 1959 the first museum exhibition of Matta’s work in Europe was arranged at the Museum of Modern Art (Moderna Museet) in Stockholm. Held under the aegis of Pontus Hultén, it was entitled “Fifteen Forms of Doubt” and included 15 or so gigantic paintings...
Category
1990s Abstract Roberto Matta Art
Materials
Mixed Media
L'eau est Mana, Surrealist Lithograph by Roberto Matta
By Roberto Matta
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Roberto Matta
Title: L'eau est Mana
Year: 1974
Medium: Lithograph on Arches, signed and numbered in pencil
Edition: 200
Size: 21.5 x 30 inches (54.61 x 76.2 cm)
Frame...
Category
1970s Surrealist Roberto Matta Art
Materials
Lithograph
Centre Noeuds Portfolio, Suite of 10 Aquatint Etchings
By Roberto Matta
Located in Long Island City, NY
These works express the influence of the collective subconscious icons, South American & popular culture, and psycho-sexuality. Their undeniable beauty keeps the eye engaged in visua...
Category
1970s Surrealist Roberto Matta Art
Materials
Etching, Aquatint
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- 1stDibs ExpertApril 5, 2022Roberto Matta is a painter who became a noted part of the Surrealist movement. Born Roberto Antonio Sebastian Matta Echaurren in 1922 in Santiago, Chile, the artist began his professional life as an architect and slowly switched to painting. His work often featured complex biomorphic forms in disturbing settings, making him an important influence in the post World War II era. Shop a selection of Roberto Matta pieces from some of the world’s top art dealers on 1stDibs.