LOT DETAILS

Materials:

oil on canvas

Measurements:

28.50 in. (72.40 cm.) (height) by 35.98 in. (91.40 cm.) (width)

Exhibited:

New York, The Pierre Matisse Gallery, Roberto Matta Echaurren: Paintings and Oil Pencils, March 31-April 21, 1942, no. 10 Waltham, Rose Art Museum, Brandeis University, Matta: The First Decades, May 9-June 20, 1982, n.n. Washington D.C., Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Crosscurrents of Modernism: Four Latin American Pioneers, June 10-September 7, 1992, no. 84, p. 263, illustrated in color Roslyn Harbor, The Nassau County Museum of Art, Latin Viewpoints: Into the Mainstream, August 17-November 3, 1996, p. 57, illustrated in color New York, The Pierpont Morgan Library, Pierre Matisse and His Artists, February 14-May 19, 2002, no. 39, p. 103, illustrated in color

Literature:

Germana Ferrari-Matta, Matta: Entretiens Morphologiques Notebook Nº 1 - 1936-1944, London, 1987, p. 115, illustrated

Provenance:

Pierre Matisse Gallery, New York Phillip Johnson and Associates, New York The Seagram Collection, New York Sale: Christie's, New York, Latin American Sale, May 28, 2003, lot 21, illustrated in color