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Matta

Ergonautes / Les désastronautes

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May 20, 03:00 PM GMT

Estimate

300,000 - 500,000 USD

Bid

300,000 USD

Lot Details

Description

Matta

1911 - 2002


Ergonautes / Les désastronautes

signed with the artist's monogram (lower center)

oil on canvas

80 ¼ by 148 in.

204 by 376 cm.

Executed in 1965. 


This work is included in the Archives de l'oeuvre de Matta. 

Private Collection, Florida (acquired directly from the artist)

Acquired from the above in 2018 by the present owner

Hanover, Kestner-Gesellschaft, Matta, 1974, no. 2, p. 73, illustrated in color 

Viterbo, Palazzo degli Alessandri, Incontro con Matta, 1977, p. 8, illustrated in color 

Rome, Auditorium Parco della Musica, Matta, Un surrealista a Roma, Mostra nel centenario della nascita, 2012, no. 40, pp. 74-75, illustrated in color 

Saint Petersburg, State Hermitage Museum, Roberto Matta and the Fourth Dimension, 2019, p. 166-67, illustrated in color

Thomas R. Monahan, Hans Ulrich Obrist, Oksana Salamatina, eds., Matta: On the Edge of a Dream, Milan, 2015, pp. 88-89, illustrated in color 

Paola Gribaudo, Oksana Salamatina, eds., Who is Matta? Matta & Magie mage, Pisa, 2019, pp. 64-65, illustrated in color