Roberto Matta Landscape Prints
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
FOG, GOG, AND MAGOG
By Roberto Matta
Located in Santa Monica, CA
ROBERTO MATTA (1911-2002)
FOG, GOG, AND MAGOG 1971
Color lithograph. Plate 1 from “Fog Gog, and Magog” 1971. Signed in pencil and numbered. This work is number 92 from the edition o...
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Lithograph
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Nymphee, Surrealist Etching by Roberto Matta
By Roberto Matta
Located in Long Island City, NY
"Nymphee" is a colorful Roberto Matta etching from his Requiem pour la Fin des Temps suite. The print is signed and numbered (44/100) in pencil w...
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1970s Surrealist Roberto Matta Landscape Prints
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T'ou't se tient, Société internationale d'art XXe siècle
By Roberto Matta
Located in Southampton, NY
Lithograph on vélin paper. Paper Size: 12.4 x 9.65 inches. Inscription: Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Notes: From the album, XXe siècle, Nouvelle série, XXXVIIe Année, N°45, Dé...
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1970s Surrealist Roberto Matta Landscape Prints
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La Naisurrection du Supérieur des Oiseaux dans l'éternite, XXe siècle
By Roberto Matta
Located in Southampton, NY
Lithograph on vélin paper. Paper Size: 19.3 x 12.4 inches. Inscription: Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Notes: From the album, XXe siècle, Nouvelle série, XXXVIIIe Année N°46, Se...
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1970s Surrealist Roberto Matta Landscape Prints
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Hommage à Dorothea Tanning, Société internationale d'art XXe siècle
By Roberto Matta
Located in Southampton, NY
Lithograph on vélin paper. Paper Size: 19.3 x 12.4 inches. Inscription: Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Notes: From the album, XXe siècle, Numéro spécial hors abonnement, Hommage...
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1970s Surrealist Roberto Matta Landscape Prints
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Les Manifestes du Surrealisme, Surrealist Two Etchings by Roberto Matta
By Roberto Matta
Located in Long Island City, NY
Roberto Matta, Chilean (1911 -2002) - Les Manifestes du Surrealisme Diptych, Year: 1946, Medium: Two Etchings, titled in the plate, Edition: 58, Image Size: 5.5 x 4 inches, Size:...
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1940s Surrealist Roberto Matta Landscape Prints
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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...
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1970s Surrealist Roberto Matta Landscape Prints
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Etching, Aquatint
COSI FAN TUTTE
By Roberto Matta
Located in New York, NY
color etching and aquatint. Edition 1/100
Fantastical
Surreal
Fantasy
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1970s Surrealist Roberto Matta Landscape Prints
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Find a wide variety of authentic Roberto Matta landscape prints available for sale on 1stDibs. You can also browse by medium to find art by Roberto Matta in etching, aquatint, lithograph and more. Much of the original work by this artist or collective was created during the 1970s and is mostly associated with the Surrealist style. Not every interior allows for large Roberto Matta landscape prints, so small editions measuring 15 inches across are available. Customers who are interested in this artist might also find the work of Valton Tyler, René Magritte, and Clarence Holbrook Carter. Roberto Matta landscape prints prices can differ depending upon medium, time period and other attributes. On 1stDibs, the price for these items starts at $1,100 and tops out at $15,000, while the average work can sell for $2,240.
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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.