Price Upon Request
Judgements: Blitz
By Roberto Matta
Located in London, GB
Plate 1 from 'Judgements'. Signed in pencil, from the edition of 100. Printed on Arches wove paper by Atelier Georges Visat, Paris. Published by Blue Moon Gallery, New York. Plat...
Etching, Aquatint
Price Upon Request
Viens Voir
By Roberto Matta
Located in London, GB
Signed in pencil, from the edition of 99. Printed on Arches wove paper by Atelier Georges Visat, Paris. Published by Editions L'Oeuvre Gravée, Bern in 1970. Plate: 41.1 x 54.6 cm....
Etching, Aquatint
Price Upon Request
Castronautes
By Roberto Matta
Located in London, GB
Signed in pencil, from the edition of 100. Printed on Arches wove paper by Atelier Georges Visat, Paris. Published by Editions L'Oeuvre Gravée, Bern. Plate: 23.5 x 31 cm. (Sabati...
Etching, Aquatint
Price Upon Request
FMR: Plate 7
By Roberto Matta
Located in London, GB
Signed in pencil, from the edition of 85. Printed on Arches wove paper and published by Georges Visat, Paris. Plate: 23.8 x 17.7 cm. (Sabatier 266).
Etching, Aquatint
Price Upon Request
Droites Libérées: Plate 9
By Roberto Matta
Located in London, GB
From 'Droites Libérées', a series which illustrated a poem by Henri Michaux. Signed in pencil, numbered in Roman numerals from XXV. From the suite on Japon nacré paper (the total e...
Etching, Aquatint
Untitled Plate 3 from Paroles Peintes Suite - 1970s - Sebastián Matta
By Sebastian Matta
Located in Roma, IT
This print blatantly demonstrates the virtuosity of the master of technique, Sebastián Matta. Image Dimensions: 23.5 x 17.5 cm
Etching, Aquatint
Untitled Plate 4 from Paroles Peintes Suite - 1970s - Sebastián Matta
By Sebastian Matta
Located in Roma, IT
This plate, from a suite of 10 engravings, was realized in 1971 by the Surrealist master Sebastián Matta. A beautiful etching representing an erotic scene in Matta's style, with a fr...
Etching, Aquatint
Untitled Plate 9 from Paroles Peintes Suite - 1970s - Sebastián Matta
By Sebastian Matta
Located in Roma, IT
Untitled Plate 9 from Paroles Peintes Suite is an etching and aquatint on Japon paper. Hand-signed and hand-numbered in pencil on the lower margin.
Etching, Aquatint
Untitled Plate 10 from Paroles Peintes Suite - 1970s - Sebastián Matta
By Sebastian Matta
Located in Roma, IT
Untitled Plate 10 from Paroles Peintes Suite is an etching and aquatint on Japon paper. Hand-signed and hand-numbered in pencil on the lower margin.
Etching, Aquatint
Untitled Plate 8 from Paroles Peintes Suite - 1970s - Sebastián Matta
By Sebastian Matta
Located in Roma, IT
Untitled Plate 8 from Paroles Peintes Suite is an etching and aquatint on Japon paper. Hand-signed and hand-numbered in pencil on the lower margin.
Etching, Aquatint
Untitled Plate 7 from Paroles Peintes Suite - 1970s - Sebastián Matta
By Sebastian Matta
Located in Roma, IT
Untitled Plate 7 from Paroles Peintes Suite is an etching and aquatint on Japon paper. Hand-signed and hand-numbered in pencil on the lower margin.
Etching, Aquatint
Untitled Plate 6 from Paroles Peintes Suite - 1970s - Sebastián Matta
By Sebastian Matta
Located in Roma, IT
Untitled Plate 6 from Paroles Peintes Suite is an etching with aquatint on Japon paper. Hand-signed in pencil on the lower right; numbered on the lower left in pencil.
Etching, Aquatint
Untitled Plate 5 from Paroles Peintes Suite - 1970s - Sebastián Matta
By Sebastian Matta
Located in Roma, IT
Untitled Plate 5 from the Paroles Peintes Suite is an etching with aquatint on Japon paper. Hand-signed in pencil on the lower right; numbered on the lower left in pencil.
Etching, Aquatint
Unavailable|$2,900
Je Suis Entact Abstract Modern Art Roberta Matta
By Roberto Matta
Located in Cleveland, OH
Roberto Matta Aquatint engraving on hand made paper, hand numbered and signed.
Aquatint
Unavailable|$7,750
L'ame du Tarot de Theleme Portfolio of 5 Aquatint Etchings by Matta
By Roberto Matta
Located in Ft. Lauderdale, FL
Medium: Portfolio of Five Aquatint Etchings, each signed and numbered in pencil Edition: 100 Paper Size: 26 x 19.5 inches Printer: Atelier Dupont-Visat, Paris, France
Etching, Aquatint
Unavailable
N'ous T'ous
By Roberto Matta
Located in Beverly Hills, CA
Original Roberto Matta Etching and Aquatint from the signed and numbered edition of 100 on Arches paper.
Aquatint, Etching, Paper
Unavailable|$5,800
Je Fixe des Vertiges (plate 1) from the Saison en Enfer Portfolio
By Roberto Matta
Located in Miami Beach, FL
Etching and aquatint Edition of 100 Signed and Numbered
Etching, Aquatint
Unavailable
La Mer du Temps
By Roberto Matta
Located in New York, NY
Color etching, aquatint and aquaforte Limited-edition: #1/50 annotated in pencil lower left margin Hand-signed "Matta" in pencil lower right margin From the suite "Serié Or" Publi...
Aquatint, Etching
Unavailable|$5,800
Damne Par L’Arcen Ciel
By Roberto Matta
Located in Miami Beach, FL
Etching and aquatint on Japan paper Signed and Numbered, including monogrammed on lower right Edition of 100
Etching, Aquatint
Unavailable|$1,157
Untitled
By Roberto Matta
Located in London, GB
Signed and numbered 72/100
Aquatint, Etching
Unavailable|$1,157
Untitled
By Roberto Matta
Located in London, GB
Signed and numbered 72/100 Provenance: Batache, Eddy, 'Requiem pour la Fin des Temps', Paris, Editions Georges Visat, 1978.
Aquatint, Etching
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...
Etching, Aquatint
Roberto Matta - FMR - Hand-Signed Etching and Aquatint, 1971
By Roberto Matta
Located in Varese, IT
Roberto Matta (1911 - 2002) - FMR - Hand-Signed Etching and Aquatint, 1971 Additional Information: Material: Etching and aquatint on extra fine Japanese paper, edited in 1971 Limite...
Etching, Aquatint
Je Fixe des Vertiges, Surrealist Aquatint Etching by Roberto Matta
By Roberto Matta
Located in Long Island City, NY
Je Fixe des Vertiges Roberto Matta, Chilean (1911–2002) Portfolio: Une Saison en Enfer Date: 1977 Etching and aquatint on Japon, signed and numbered in pencil Edition of 39/100 Image...
Etching, Aquatint
Roberto Matta - Così Fan Tutte - Hand Signed Etching & Aquatint, 1970
By Roberto Matta
Located in Varese, IT
Roberto Matta (1911 - 2002) - Così Fan Tutte - Hand Signed Etching and Aquatint, 1970 Additional Information: Material: Hand signed etching and aquatint Edited in 1970 Limited editi...
Etching, Aquatint
Sold|$2,500
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...
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...
Etching, Aquatint
Sold|$2,500
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...
Etching, Aquatint
Sold|$2,500
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...
Etching, Aquatint
Sold|$2,500
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...
Etching, Aquatint
Sold|$2,500
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...
Etching, Aquatint
Hom'mere V (N'ous) , Suite of 10 Aquatint Etchings
By Roberto Matta
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Roberto Matta, Chilean (1911 - 2002) Title: Hom'mere V - N'ous - 1-10 Year: 1985 Medium: Suite of 10 Aquatint Etchings on Japon, each signed and numbered in pencil Edition: 2...
Etching, Aquatint
Sold|$1,500
L' Explosion Qui Eclaire Mon Abime (framed signed aquatint and etching)
By Roberto Matta
Located in Aventura, FL
Aquatint and etching on paper. Hand signed lower right by Roberto Matta.
Paper, Etching, Aquatint
Sold|$5,000
Pyrocentre
By Roberto Matta
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Roberto Matta, Chilean (1911 - 2002) Title: Pyrocentre Year: 1980 Medium: Aquatint Etching, Signed and numbered in pencil Edition: 34/90 Image Size: 26 x 20.5 inches Si...
Etching, Aquatint
Sold|$3,000
Une Saison en Enfer
By Roberto Matta
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Roberto Matta Title: Une Saison en Enfer Year: 1978 Medium: Etching with Aquatint, signed and numbered in pencil Edition: 96/100 Size: 27 x 20 in. (68.58 x 50.8 cm) F...
Aquatint, Etching
Sold|$3,000
Carne Amont 6
By Roberto Matta
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Roberto Matta, Chilean (1911 - 2002) Title: Carne Amont 6 Year: 1979 Medium: Etching with Aquatint, signed in pencil Edition: Essai Image Size: 19.25 x 14.5 inches Size...
Aquatint, Etching
12 PM from L'Arc Obscur des Heures
By Roberto Matta
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Roberto Matta, Chilean (1911 - 2002) Title: 12 PM from L'Arc Obscur des Heures Year: 1975 Medium: Aquatint Etching, Signed and numbered in pencil Edition: 125 Image Size...
Etching, Aquatint
Je Suis Entact from the Saison en Enfer Portfolio
By Roberto Matta
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Roberto Matta, Chile (1911 - 2002) Title: Je Suis Entact from the Saison en Enfer Portfolio Year: 1977 Medium: Aquatint Etching, signed and numbered in pencil Edition: 35...
Aquatint, Etching
Folder Los 5 Destacados. Burumbauzerda
By Roberto Matta
Located in Hollywood, FL
Artist: Roberto Matta Title: Folder Los 5 Destacados Burumbauzerda Medium: Original Etching & Acquatint on Arches Paper Signed: Hand Signed Edition Number: Proof Measurements: 19.75...
Aquatint
Untitled 10 from Hom'mere V - N'ous Portfolio
By Roberto Matta
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Roberto Matta (Chilean, 1911 - 2002) Title: Untitled 10 Portfolio: Hom'mere V - N'ous Date: 1985 Medium: Etching and aquatint, signed and numbered in pencil Edition: 29/100 I...
Etching, Aquatint
Untitled 8 from Hom'mere V - N'ous Portfolio
By Roberto Matta
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Roberto Matta (Chilean, 1911 - 2002) Title: Untitled 8 Portfolio: Hom'mere V - N'ous Date: 1985 Medium: Etching and aquatint, signed and numbered in pencil Edition: 29/100 Im...
Etching, Aquatint
Sold|$1,740
Untitled (12)
By Roberto Matta
Located in Columbia, MO
Roberto Matta (Chilean, 1911 - 2002) was a Chilean painter and a seminal figure in 20th-century Surrealism and Abstract Expressionism. Born in Santiago, Chile, he studied architectur...
Etching, Aquatint
Sold|$1,740
Untitled (7)
By Roberto Matta
Located in Columbia, MO
Roberto Matta (Chilean, 1911 - 2002) was a Chilean painter and a seminal figure in 20th-century Surrealism and Abstract Expressionism. Born in Santiago, Chile, he studied architectur...
Etching, Aquatint
Sold|$1,740
Untitled (1)
By Roberto Matta
Located in Columbia, MO
Roberto Matta (Chilean, 1911 - 2002) was a Chilean painter and a seminal figure in 20th-century Surrealism and Abstract Expressionism. Born in Santiago, Chile, he studied architectur...
Etching, Aquatint
Sold|$1,740
Untitled (4)
By Roberto Matta
Located in Columbia, MO
Roberto Matta (Chilean, 1911 - 2002) was a Chilean painter and a seminal figure in 20th-century Surrealism and Abstract Expressionism. Born in Santiago, Chile, he studied architectur...
Etching, Aquatint
Sold|$1,740
Untitled (3)
By Roberto Matta
Located in Columbia, MO
Roberto Matta (Chilean, 1911 - 2002) was a Chilean painter and a seminal figure in 20th-century Surrealism and Abstract Expressionism. Born in Santiago, Chile, he studied architectur...
Etching, Aquatint
Sold|$1,740
Untitled (5)
By Roberto Matta
Located in Columbia, MO
Roberto Matta (Chilean, 1911 - 2002) was a Chilean painter and a seminal figure in 20th-century Surrealism and Abstract Expressionism. Born in Santiago, Chile, he studied architectur...
Etching, Aquatint
Sold|$1,740
Untitled (6)
By Roberto Matta
Located in Columbia, MO
Roberto Matta (Chilean, 1911 - 2002) was a Chilean painter and a seminal figure in 20th-century Surrealism and Abstract Expressionism. Born in Santiago, Chile, he studied architectur...
Etching, Aquatint
Sold|$1,740
Untitled (10)
By Roberto Matta
Located in Columbia, MO
Roberto Matta (Chilean, 1911 - 2002) was a Chilean painter and a seminal figure in 20th-century Surrealism and Abstract Expressionism. Born in Santiago, Chile, he studied architectur...
Etching, Aquatint
Sold|$1,740
Untitled (14)
By Roberto Matta
Located in Columbia, MO
Roberto Matta (Chilean, 1911 - 2002) was a Chilean painter and a seminal figure in 20th-century Surrealism and Abstract Expressionism. Born in Santiago, Chile, he studied architectur...
Etching, Aquatint
Sold|$1,740
Untitled (9)
By Roberto Matta
Located in Columbia, MO
Roberto Matta (Chilean, 1911 - 2002) was a Chilean painter and a seminal figure in 20th-century Surrealism and Abstract Expressionism. Born in Santiago, Chile, he studied architectur...
Etching, Aquatint
Sold|$1,740
Untitled (2)
By Roberto Matta
Located in Columbia, MO
Roberto Matta (Chilean, 1911 - 2002) was a Chilean painter and a seminal figure in 20th-century Surrealism and Abstract Expressionism. Born in Santiago, Chile, he studied architectur...
Etching, Aquatint
Sold|$1,740
Untitled (11)
By Roberto Matta
Located in Columbia, MO
Roberto Matta (Chilean, 1911 - 2002) was a Chilean painter and a seminal figure in 20th-century Surrealism and Abstract Expressionism. Born in Santiago, Chile, he studied architectur...
Etching, Aquatint
Sold|$1,740
Untitled (13)
By Roberto Matta
Located in Columbia, MO
Roberto Matta (Chilean, 1911 - 2002) was a Chilean painter and a seminal figure in 20th-century Surrealism and Abstract Expressionism. Born in Santiago, Chile, he studied architectur...
Etching, Aquatint
Sold|$1,740
Untitled (8)
By Roberto Matta
Located in Columbia, MO
Roberto Matta (Chilean, 1911 - 2002) was a Chilean painter and a seminal figure in 20th-century Surrealism and Abstract Expressionism. Born in Santiago, Chile, he studied architectur...
Etching, Aquatint
Sold|$1,294
Les Oh! Tomobiles
By Roberto Matta
Located in Paris, FR
Etching and aquatint Handsigned by the artist in pencil and numbered 75/100 50.00 cm. x 66.00 cm. 19.69 in. x 25.98 in.
Etching, Aquatint
Sold|$2,500
Cosmicstrip II
By Roberto Matta
Located in Long Island City, NY
Cosmicstrip II 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...
Etching, Aquatint
“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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Decorating with fine art prints — whether they’re figurative prints, abstract prints or another variety — has always been a practical way of bringing a space to life as well as bringing works by an artist you love into your home.
Pursued in the 1960s and ’70s, largely by Pop artists drawn to its associations with mass production, advertising, packaging and seriality, as well as those challenging the primacy of the Abstract Expressionist brushstroke, printmaking was embraced in the 1980s by painters and conceptual artists ranging from David Salle and Elizabeth Murray to Adrian Piper and Sherrie Levine.
Printmaking is the transfer of an image from one surface to another. An artist takes a material like stone, metal, wood or wax, carves, incises, draws or otherwise marks it with an image, inks or paints it and then transfers the image to a piece of paper or other material.
Fine art prints are frequently confused with their more commercial counterparts. After all, our closest connection to the printed image is through mass-produced newspapers, magazines and books, and many people don’t realize that even though prints are editions, they start with an original image created by an artist with the intent of reproducing it in a small batch. Fine art prints are created in strictly limited editions — 20 or 30 or maybe 50 — and are always based on an image created specifically to be made into an edition.
Many people think of revered Dutch artist Rembrandt as a painter but may not know that he was a printmaker as well. His prints have been preserved in time along with the work of other celebrated printmakers such as Pablo Picasso, Salvador Dalí and Andy Warhol. These fine art prints are still highly sought after by collectors.
“It’s another tool in the artist’s toolbox, just like painting or sculpture or anything else that an artist uses in the service of mark making or expressing him- or herself,” says International Fine Print Dealers Association (IFPDA) vice president Betsy Senior, of New York’s Betsy Senior Fine Art, Inc.
Because artist’s editions tend to be more affordable and available than his or her unique works, they’re more accessible and can be a great opportunity to bring a variety of colors, textures and shapes into a space.
For tight corners, select small fine art prints as opposed to the oversized bold piece you’ll hang as a focal point in the dining area. But be careful not to choose something that is too big for your space. And feel free to lean into it if need be — not every work needs picture-hanging hooks. Leaning a larger fine art print against the wall behind a bookcase can add a stylish installation-type dynamic to your living room. (Read more about how to arrange wall art here.)
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