Artist: Roberto Matta (1911 - )
Nationality: South American
Movement: Surrealism
Media: Painting
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Biography:
After studying architecture in his hometown of Santiago, Chile, Roberto Sebastian Matta Echaurren traveled to Paris to train under Le Corbusier. He began painting in the Surrealist style in 1937, and was a leading figure of the movement. His debut came at the Julien Levy Gallery in 1940, shortly after Matta moved to the United States. His distinctive interpretation of Surrealism and random painting technique influenced later generations of Abstract Expressionists such as Pollock and Gorky.

Artworks in Museum Collections: (21)
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Fine Arts Museum of San Francisco -
Matta (Roberto SÈbastian Antonio Echaurren Matta), I Want to See It To Believe It, 1947
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Matta (Roberto SÈbastian Antonio Echaurren Matta), The Mooner, 1959
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Matta (Roberto SÈbastian Antonio Echaurren Matta), Composition, 20th century
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Matta (Roberto SÈbastian Antonio Echaurren Matta), Untitled Composition, Illustration of a Poem by Alain Bosquet, 20th century
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Roberto Matta - La Rosa 1943 oil on canvas Cleveland Museum of Art Chilean
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Guido Reni - Portrait of Cardinal Roberto Ubaldino, Papal Legate to Bologna 1627 oil on canvas Los Angeles County Museum of Art Italian
Fine Arts Museum of San Francisco -
Roberto Werner Bonilla, Goldweight with box design, 20th century
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Arthur Pond, [ Profile Study of a man] E Museo Domini Roberto Dingeley, 1735
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Roberto Werner Bonilla, (one calendar of twelve serigraph images- Enero 1975), 1975
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VVV, Nos. 1 (June 1942)–4 (February 1944) New York: VVV, 1942-1944Serial publication, illustrated; 4 nos.
Fine Arts Museum of San Francisco -
Roberto Donis, *Azul en Trajectoria* (Blue in Trajectory), ninth plate in the portfolio, 21 Estampadores de Colombia, Mexico y Venezuela (21 Printmakers of Colombia, Mexico and Venezuela), 1972
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Matta - Marathon 1945 pencil and crayon on Hirshhorn Museum French
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Matta - Metamatician 1948 pencil, pastel and w Hirshhorn Museum French
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Matta - Atomic Man 1957 bronze Hirshhorn Museum French
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Matta - Untitled 1947 pencil, crayon Arkansas Arts Center Chilean
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Gordon Matta-Clark - Splitting 1974-75 gelatin silver print Spencer Museum of Art American
J. Paul Getty Museum -
A Roman Feast
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Matta - The Three Worlds (The Clan) 1957 bronze and iron Hirshhorn Museum French
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Matta - Let's Phosphoresce Daily 1948 crayon and pencil on Hirshhorn Museum French
Museum of Fine Arts -
Marked by John East, first mark entered 1697 Spout Cup London, England England, (London), 1712-13
The Metropolitan Museum of Art -
Kouros, 1944-45 Isamu Noguchi (American, 1904-1988)Marble; H. 117 in. (297.2 cm) Base: D. 34-1/8, W.

Artnews Articles and Exhibition Information: (13)
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Hayward Gallery: Force Fields: Phases of the Kinetic
Over 100 paintings, sculptures, drawings, installations and films made by artists from the 1920s to the early 1980s have been brought together by the exhibition’s curator Guy Brett. Among the seminal works in the show are Calder’s early mobiles, D...
National Museum of Fine Arts: From Picasso to Keith Haring
The artworks, mostly donated by collectors and artists before and after the Revolution, includes a room dedicated to the US art from the Reagan era, which were donated in 1984 by 50 american artists. It contains among others, an outstanding piece ...
Witte de With Center for Contemportary Art: Occupying Space: Works from the Generali Foundation Collection
Photography, film, video, and installations are amply represented in the collection - the Generali Foundation has in fact been a pioneer in collecting policy involving these media. It holds the largest European collection of videos by artists. Ano...
Museum of Fine Arts, Houston: Art at Midcentury: Spotlight on the Collection of the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston
The exhibition opens with art by European and Latin American artists such as Max Ernst and Matta, whose work was to play a defining role in shaping the New Yor...
Phillips Collection: Surrealism and Modernism from the Collection of the Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art
Notably, the Atheneum was the first museum in the world to purchase a painting by Salvador Dalí (1931) and the first American museum to acquire works by surrealist Joan Miró (1934), the Paris-born painter known as Balthus (1938), and American surr...
Mason Murer Fine Art Gallery: Allan Eddy: Lost Sight Is Not Lost Vision
Allan Eddy, an award wining Atlanta College of Art graduate, winning the Forward Arts Foundation Scholarship in 1987, and hailed as the next Kandinsky, Matta or Miró, paints in abstract form. His art hangs in many collections, including Elton Jo...
White Colmns: OUTER BOROUGHS
White Columns consists of an ongoing program of culturally diverse exhibitions and services for visual artists. It is a not-for-profit gallery which is open to the public, free of charge, eleven months per year and presents new exh...
Appleton Museum of Art: 20th Century Masterworks from the Art Gallery of Ontario (AGO), Toronto
Until now, this collection has not been available for loan during the 100-year history of the AGO. Following their exhibition at Appleton, these masterworks will return to Toronto and be re-installed in the AGO permanent collection galleries. The ...
National Academy: Surrealism USA: Between 1930 and 1950
One of the most revolutionary artistic and intellectual movements of the twentieth century, Surrealism still exerts a strong appeal today, more than fifty years after its heyday. The profound influence that this world of fantasy and dream had on a...
Sert Gallery, Harvard University Art Museums: Tadashi Kawamata: Boston Project, Plan in Progress
Bringing Kawamata to the Fogg Art Museum to work closely with students, faculty, and curators is a fabulous opportunity for everyone involved. He is a challenging and intelligent artist, well known for his generous collaborations with students. W...
Palau de la Virreina: Banquete:   Metabolism and Communicatión
In this context, banquete has been conceived of as an exploratory and open conversation between art, science, thought and society. A conversation understood as a process in which information and values, experiences, knowledge and meanings flow, mi...
Hamburger Bahnhof Museum: Friedrich Christian Flick Collection
Following the inaugural exhibition, the private collection of around 2,000 works of art, which has been loaned to the Hamburger Bahnhof for a period of seven years, will be gradually shown in its entirety in a series of temporary exhibitions. The ...
Delaware Art Museum: An American Century of Photography: From Dry-plate to Digital, The Hallmark Photographic Collection

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