- 111
Roberto Matta
Estimate
150,000 - 200,000 USD
bidding is closed
Description
- Roberto Matta
- Untitled
- oil on canvas
- 43 3/8 by 57 1/4 in. 110.2 by 145.4 cm.
- Executed circa 1952.
Provenance
PaceWildenstein, New York
Acquired from the above by the present owner
Acquired from the above by the present owner
Exhibited
PaceWildenstein, New York, Matta: Five Decades of Painting, January - February 2009, p. 24, illustrated in color
Catalogue Note
"Matta was consistent in his regard that art was not an end in itself, but the catalyst towards seeing. 'A picture is not a canvas on a wall,' he explained, 'it is the impact that hits the bull's-eye of your mind.'"
Miranda Lash, "Boxed In: Imagining the Unseen in Roberto Matta's Cube Constructions," in Thomas Crow, Francesco Pellizzi and Richard Taws, Eds., Anthropology and Aesthetics, New York 2010, p. 269
Miranda Lash, "Boxed In: Imagining the Unseen in Roberto Matta's Cube Constructions," in Thomas Crow, Francesco Pellizzi and Richard Taws, Eds., Anthropology and Aesthetics, New York 2010, p. 269