Roberto Matta

oil on canvas

72,5 x 91 cm; 28 9/16 x 35 13/16 in.

Executed in 1938.

Gordon Onslow Ford Collection, California (acquired directly from the artist)

San Francisco Museum of Art, San Francisco (on long term loan from the above, from September 26, 1958 until at leat April 17, 1978)

Gordon Onslow Ford, California

Sale : Sotheby's, New York, 20 May 1986, lot 23

Geneviève & Pierre Hebey Collection, Paris

Sale : Artcurial, Paris, Le Regard de Pierre Hebey, Les Passions Modérées, 22 February 2016, lot 11

Acquired at the above sale by the present owner

Cincinnati, Cincinnati Art Museum (& travelling through the United States), Abstract and Surrealist Art in the United States, 1944 (probably)

Paris, Galerie Enrico Navarra, Au Rendez-vous des Amis... de Pierre Hebey, 1990; catalogue p. 53, illustrated (titled The Evening of the Death and with inaccurate dimensions)

Paris, Galerie de France (probably)

Paris, Galerie Malingue, Matta, 1935-1944: Début d'un nouveau monde, 2004; catalogue, p. 22, illustrate (inaccurate dimensions)

Gordon Onslow Ford, Création, Basel, 1978, illustrated p. 21

Tanguy (exhibition catalogue), Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris, 1982, mentioned p. 58 (inaccurate dimensions)

Matta (exhibition catalogue), Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris, 1985, illustrated p. 28 (inaccurate dimensions)

Germana Ferrari, Entretiens morphologiques: Notebook No. 1, 1936-1944, London, 1987, illustrated p. 72 (inaccurate dimensions)

Matta, du surréalisme à l'histoire (exhibition catalogue), Musée Cantini, Marseilles, 2013, mentioned p. 172

Pascale Lismonde, 'Matta, il faut léonarder', in Art absolument, no. 52, Paris, March-April 2013, p. 70

Maaheen Ahmed, 'Generating New Epistemological Coodinates: Roberto Matta's Open Cubes as Meta-Images', in Meta- and Inter-Images in Contemporary Visual Art and Culture, Leuven, 2013, mentioned p. 250 (dated 1939)

Béatrice de Rochebouët, 'Pierre and Geneviève Hebey: an extraordinary collection', in Le Figaro, 31 January 2012, illustrated