Lot 22
  • 22

Roberto Matta

Estimate
40,000 - 60,000 EUR
bidding is closed

Description

  • Roberto Matta
  • Man with green head
  • signed matta (on the verso)
  • colored pencil and graphite on paper
  • 9 1/2 x 6 1/8 in.

Provenance

Anne Alpert, New York (acquired directly from the artist and sold by the Estate: Christie's, New York, November 25, 1998, lot 191)
Acquired at the above sale by the present owner

Exhibited

Santiago, Fundacón Telefónica Sala de Arte, Retrospectiva de Roberto Matta, 2000, n.n.
Rio de Janeiro, Centro Cultural Banco do Brasil, Surrealismo, 2001, n.n., illustrated in the catalogue p. 54

Condition

Executed on cream wove paper, not laid down, affixed to the mount to all four corners and floating in the mount. Upper and left edges are deckled. There is a pinhole to the centre of the lower edge and two to the centre of the upper edge. There is some fine vertical flattened creases along the left edge and some further small creases to the lower right corner relating to the cachet. There is a diagonal scratch to the lower right quadrant. There are some faint handling marks along the extreme left edge. This work is in very good condition.
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