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TITLE: From the Five Lithografies suite ARTIST: Roberto Matta (Chilean, 1911–2002) WORK DATE: 1976 CATEGORY: Prints and Multiples MATERIALS: Lithograph EDITION/SET OF: 40/100 SIZE: 22" x 29" STYLE: Contemporary DESCRIPTION: Published by Mourlot, Paris. This is a very difficult to find image, perhaps the best image from this portfolio of five images. Excellent condition, and unframed. MLA Gallery guarantees the authenticity of all of the Latin Master printwork that we represent, and will provide this in writing. In addition, we offer a lifetime trade in policy, for the full purchase price. Please inquire for details. This is a very rare and outstanding print by this Latin Master, and it will more than likely appreciate dramatically over time. Of all the Latin Masters, Matta is the one who has the most cross-over appeal, and the one who is collected and represented by both Latin, and non-Latin galleries and collectors worldwide. He is considered to be the greatest of the surrealists, and is arguably the greatest Latin American Master of the 20th Century. This print will be shipped unframed, rolled in a large, secure tube. We offer a life-time trade in policy. Please inquire. For more info please call us at , or . We have been in business for over 15 years, and enjoy a very good feedback rating. We believe in, and offer outstanding customer service. MLA Gallery has a great selection of paintings, drawings, sculptures, and graphics by Mexican, Cuban and Latin artists. We specialize in work by established contemporary Latin artists, as well as Latin Masters. Please inquire for many others. Some biographical info on Matta is as follows: Roberto Antonio Sebastián Matta Echaurren (November 11, 1911 – November 23, 2002) Usually known as Matta, he was one of Chile's best-known painters. Born in Santiago, he initially studied architecture at the Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile in Santiago, but became disillusioned with this occupation and left for Paris. His travels led him to meet artists such as René Magritte, Salvador Dalí, André Breton, and Le Corbusier. He arrived in Paris in 1934 and was soon working in the architectural studio of Le Corbusier. He also traveled to Italy, Russia and Spain, where he met the poet Federico Garcia Lorca, who provided him with a letter of introduction to Salvador Dali. Back in Paris, by 1937, he had exhibited his first drawings and had become a part of the influential Surrealist Group led by Andre Brenton. It was Breton who provided the major spur to the Chilean's direction in art, encouraging his work and introducing him to the leading members of the Paris Surrealist movement. Matta produced illustrations and articles for Surrealist journals such as Minotaure. During this period he was introduced to the work of many prominent contemporary European artists, such as Pablo Picasso and Marcel Duchamp. By 1938, he was painting and becoming increasingly attracted to the inner self and the unconscious. He put forward a Freudian theory of architecture and painted what he called, "Psycological Morphologies", or, alternatively, "Inscapes". These paintings, which depicted imagery of the unconscious mind, were created with the techniques of "automatic composition" which he had developed within the Surrealist Group. He spent the war years in New York, where he stayed until 1948. In this period, he greatly influenced the American Surrealist Movement while also being strongly influenced by everything around him. In the early 1940's, he was attracted by the "untameable nature" of the American continent and this is clearly reflected in his art, which becamed more violent, erotic and explosive, yet always within a defined cosmos, one which he believed symbolized the unity of all things. In the middle of that decade, he changed the direction of his work. He met Marcel Duchamp and at the same time became fascinated by the relationship between modern man and the technological world. He used ancient Mexican symbolism to create... read more

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